Claude Debussyin a sentence
- She sat down at the piano and began to play a piece by Debussy from memory.† (source)
- CONNETABLE DE BOURBON 1519-1527 FERDINAND DE GONZAQUE 1527-1575 LOUIS DE NEVERS 1575-1595 ROBERT FLUDD 1595-1637 J. VALENTIN ANDREA 1637-1654 ROBERT BOYLE 1654-1691 ISAAC NEWTON 1691-1727 CHARLES RADCLYFFE 1727-1746 CHARLES DE LORRAINE 1746-1780 MAXIMILIAN DE LORRAINE 1780-1801 CHARLES NODIER 1801-1844 VICTOR HUGO 1844-1885 CLAUDE DEBUSSY 1885-1918 JEAN COCTEAU 1918-1963 Prieuré de Sion?† (source)
- Debussy or Ravel or Massenet or Charpentier.† (source)
- The unlikely figure who captured the rarely uncritical hearts of my grandmother and Owen Meany was a shameless crowd pleaser, a musical panderer who chopped up Chopin and Mozart and Debussy into two —and three-minute exaggerated flourishes on a piano he played with diamond-studded hands.† (source)
- She passed her grade exam with a tiny piece by Debussy, so full of light and fun.† (source)
- He flipped open a compartment under his car's CD player, pulled out one of thirty or so CDs that were jammed into the small space, and handed it to me, "Debussy to this?† (source)
- Sometimes her father would stroke her hair and call her "the girl with the flaxen hair," after a piece of music by Claude Debussy.† (source)
- Some Beethoven and Debussy, mostly.† (source)
- "Keep her away from Debussy," she overheard the doctors warn him.† (source)
- Lorenzo learned how to play pieces by Debussy ("Clair de lune"), Erik Satie (Gymnopedie no.† (source)
- Perhaps it was such mitigating qualities (permitting Sophie to perfect her French, which he considered a decadent language; allowing her mother to indulge her love for composers other than Wagner, triflers like Faure and Debussy and Scarlatti) that caused Sophie to accept without any conscious resentment his complete domination of her life even after she was married.† (source)
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- Debussy disliked the term, "impressionist music", when applied to his compositions.
- Waiting for her husband to leave on his business trips so she could play Debussy on the piano.† (source)
- Debussy's 'Clair de Lune.† (source)
- You know Debussy?† (source)
- PHI appeared in the organizational structures of Mozart's sonatas, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as the works of Bartók, Debussy, and Schubert.† (source)
- And Debussy.† (source)
- Debussy, of course.† (source)
- Behind Monet and Debussy the umbrella persisted, with the steady beat of a drum.† (source)
- If Monet's really Debussy, and Debussy's really Monet, neither gentleman is worth his salt—that's my opinion.† (source)
- Fanny made me swear to do three things while I was in Paris: get her the score of the last Debussy songs, go to the Grand-Guignol and see Madame Olenska.† (source)
- Considering it, the mind reeled under visions of the feasts of Elagabalus; and the subtle harmonies of Debussy mingled with the musty, fragrant romance of chests in which have been kept old clothes, ruffs, hose, doublets, of a forgotten generation, and the wan odour of lilies of the valley and the savour of Cheddar cheese.† (source)
- His brain might be full of names, he might have even heard of Monet and Debussy; the trouble was that he could not string them together into a sentence, he could not make them "tell," he could not quite forget about his stolen umbrella.† (source)
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"Debussy's La Men. Do you like it?"
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Debussy = famous French composer said to have created Impressionism in music
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