Debussy - "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune"

[marcelomelloweb]

Great work! This video is featured in my History of Music playlist , of the Choir Conducting Secondary Technical School , at Ourinhos (SP, Brazil) . Reference: Roy Bennett, History of Music (Cambridge Assignments in Music). ---

Excelente trabalho! Este vídeo faz parte de minha lista de reprodução de vídeos da disciplina História da Música III, do curso de Regência da ETEC de Ourinhos (Centro Paula Souza. A lista está baseada no livro de Roy Bennett, Uma Breve História da Música.

[3286headshot]

@black0jackass i thought nijinsky was from petruska

[b2n3s7]

гениальная музыка + талантливейшая хореография

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[Lauraajrallim]

Yes... a ground-breaking piece...! Wonderful!

[LLJtbone]

Yeah well, I have always loved the French composers like Debussy and Ravel because of their choice of tonality. This piece in particular I have always loved, for the beauty that is the music and the dancing.

[LLJtbone]

There is nothing disgusting about this. It's beauty. Innocence. It is love.

[LLJtbone]

Who's the hottie in the fawn suit!! This must have been so shocking in those days, to see this dude up on stage being so erotic!! This is some real artistic beauty though, lovely in it's symbolism.

[WingedShadow343]

@LLJtbone The one in the fawn suit is Vaslav Nijinsky - I believe he choreographed this particular ballet, and yes! It was very much a shock to see the eroticism on stage back in this era, so this choreography stirred a lot of controversy amongst the masses.

[franciscondine]

@WingedShadow343 the faun is charles jude. vaslav nijinsky was not alive when this was filmed. yes, nijinsky choreographed it. but given that from the late 1910s until his death in 1950 he didn't perform, i'm not sure he would have been able to put in a performance with the LSO in this performance from 1972.

[2xCindy]

@hanksparmatank shut down your opinion! you suck. Like this guy =)

you're sooo ugly (A)

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[henksparmatank]

i am horny

[henksparmatank]

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[henksparmatank]

he is a dirty old man and a horny asshole

[henksparmatank]

hes is a dirty old man. horny and dirty

[pianoorganman]

I Love that channel

[ADHMONH]

.... In 02.04 they move their hands as if they were holding a water jug. If one is familiar with these, one can notice the relation just from the first glance.

[ADHMONH]

The choreography both for the phaune and the nymphs, has been inspired by the setup of a certain historic period of ancient Greek vases and sculptures figures. The movements of the nymphs remind a lot of things related to Greek tradition. For example, 01.47-02.00 and 02.46-03.00 minutes is related with an ancient Greek and still vivid- dance (the trata dance = the dragnetboat dance) from the city of Megara in Attica.....

[18musicgal]

I think the music is pretty... the dancing? yuck.

[gaugin1903]

Compared to the beauty and the poetry of the music of Débussy the choreography is as made by mental retarded persons: static, inexpressive and like a succetion of gymnastic movements and postures, just ugly.

[baabaadoo]

SOO BORING!

I'm sorry, but i'm glad i only have to listen to this a few times for music appreciation...

[shenter]

Man that faune is horny hehe.

Amazing choreography and music.

[zmansporscheboxster]

If there was a God, I bet he watched this show a couple of times. Oops, almost forgot Debussy Rocks!

[sildanza]

Ityr2001 You know NOTHING!! about ballet and above all about the history of dance. THAT`S CLEAR!! This one was one of the most revolucionary and advanced creations in the ballet`s history. You certanly have to read and learn more before to give that kind of opinions.

[JuKauTu]

The choregraphy is stunning--a truly brilliant interpretation of a beautiful work.

[pablopalaciospiano]

it is a ballet if you want just listen teh audio verison.....

[sutphoe]

intresting...

[lstop1day9243]

thank you

[1401JSC]

Bravissimo, Charles Jude, très sensuel.

[musichall2004]

che dire ! semplicemente che non è facile credere che l'essere umano possa essere capace di questa meraviglia

[xcruzzerx13x]

Thank you for explaining the controversy. I remember something about how this play stirred up a riot. Lol people are funny.

[22husa]

@xcruzzerx13x

Najinsky's choreography was often controversial--the same riotous reaction happened at the Paris premier of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which Najinsky had also choreographed.

[xcruzzerx13x]

why did this ballet stir up a controversy? does anybody know the history behind this specific ballet?

[ryansth16]

It stirred up a controversy because debussy broke with the classical traditions of form and tonality without dissonances. Debussy would utilize a lot of whole steps and dissonances in the music and would sometimes even land on them, there was no tonal center anymore.

[rderonge]

few know that history

[bachrocker1]

this reminds me of the prelude to Tristan and Isolde. That also has no tonal centre. Impossible to tonally analyze.

[1401JSC]

You might find interesting Robin Holloway's interesting book "Debussy and Wagner" edited by Eulenburg.

The young claude Debussy went to Bayreuth and was a great fan, even if Monsieur Croche was later a violent opponant of the German Master (after the occupation of Alsace-Lorraine).

[xPasketix]

You're completely right mon ami :)!

[1401JSC]

Debussy did not invent whole tone scales nor was the first to avoid tonal writing, nor indeed to prefer unresolved seventh chords or use the tritone.

I don't thiçnk anyone ever protested about this work as a piece of music, with delicious orchestration and starting and finishing in E major!

[dakwa1]

@ryansth16

Debussy was a master mathematician/composer. Which many do not realize, just how much this piece showed the connection of music and math this piece had. This is considered to be the most mathematical music, total perfection in it compilation. Debussy was the father of Impressionism, and the master of mathematical composition.

[dakwa1]

@dakwa1 The dissonances and missed steps were because they were not needed when you made your music correct in structure and math. This is why he had the problems with the traditions, was he saw where they were wrong, and how they could be improved.

[ryansth16]

@dakwa1 Fascinating, I've never thought of it that way. Know any fascinating articles on this topic? I'm studying both math and music myself

[dakwa1]

@ryansth16

Howat, Roy (1983). Debussy in Proportion: A musical analysis. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521311454.

Most of hiw\e works are noted for the colur and mathmatical formulas that he used.

[Blasanton]

because of the masturbation scene at the end,imagine the reaction of the public in 1912!,I whish I been there...and the the great Nijinksy dancing...

[imitatefirst]

civentura, You misunderstood me. I love DeBussy! I think of Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune as a very beautiful piece - someone made a crude comment about it - and I disagreed with that person. I agree with YOU: Vivre L'apres mid d'un faune!

[luvluvjenmary]

... this is very beautiful.

[AlvinoProduction]

oui oui!

[rderonge]

Monsieur c'est assez correct dans son appréciation. L'interprétation est beau et grandiose.