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Debussy, Claude Achille : Children's corner　"The little shepherd"

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Music ID : 22405
Instrumentation：Piano Solo　
Genre：pieces
Total Playing Time：2 min 30 sec
Copyright：Public Domain
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Piano Solo
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Author : Hayashikawa, Takashi

Last Updated: April 18, 2019
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

The Little Shepherd

This piece features an alternation between a monophonic musical idea with a loose sense of meter and a rhythmic musical idea characterized by dotted notes.

"The Little Shepherd," opening

Throughout the work, it is evident that the melody evokes the image of a shepherd's pipe. In Caplet's orchestral version, the oboe and clarinet are assigned to the melody, producing delicate yet rich timbres through diverse treatments such as solo playing, layered playing, melodic transfers mid-phrase, and the superimposition of partial phrases.

Writer: Hayashikawa, Takashi

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