Clair de Lune

Debussy's Clair de Lune. I really really like this piece. It's such a relaxing song, and its a lot of fun to play. I think I played the latter part of the "En Animant" a little faster than I normally play it, but ah well.

Here's the poem that Debussy wrote the song to (It's by Paul Verlaine):

-Moonlight (Clair de Lune)

Your soul is like a landscape fantasy,
Where masks and Bergamasks, in charming wise,
Strum lutes and dance, just a bit sad to be
Hidden beneath their fanciful disguise.

Singing in minor mode of life's largesse
And all-victorious love, they yet seem quite
Reluctant to believe their happiness,
And their song mingles with the pale moonlight,

The calm, pale moonlight, whose sad beauty, beaming,
Sets the birds softly dreaming in the trees,
And makes the marbled fountains, gushing, streaming--
Slender jet-fountains--sob their ecstasies.

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