Prélude à l'Apres-midi d'un Faune and Other Works for Piano Four Hands

Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Maurice Ravel

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780486489063
• eBook ISBN:
  9780486310565
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Classical Music

Here are two suites Debussy composed specifically for piano four hands, Petite Suite and Six Épigraphes Antiques, plus Ravel's arrangement for four hands of Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune and a piano four hands version of Prélude, Cortège and Air de Danse from L'Enfant Prodigue.
These works range widely in mood, displaying both the brilliant pianism at the heart of Debussy's musical imagery and the composer's affinity for the unexpected. Reprinted from authoritative French editions, these works display innovative musical qualities that will both delight and challenge pianists.

Glossary of French Terms

à, to, by

abandonné, abandoned

accentués, accented

accords, chords

accuse, prominent

(en) allant toujours se perdant, gradually dying away

alerte, brisk

ami, friend

(en) animant, accelerando

animé, animated

animez, quicken

arriver à, reach

assez, rather

au, to, at

aussi . . . que, as . . . as

avec, with

basse, bass

beaucoup, considerably

bien, quite, very

brillant, brilliant

calme, calm

ce, this, ces, these

cédez, rallentando

chant, melody

chanté, cantabile

chœur, chorus

contenu, restrained

Contr., altos

Coryphée(s), vocal soloist(s)

court, short

croches, quarter notes

croissez, increase, crescendo

dans, in

de, of

début, beginning

(en) dehors, prominent

délicat, delicate

demi, half

dessin, line

dessus, (left hand) over, on top

(en) diminuant, diminuendo

(le) double moins vite, half as fast

doucement, softly

doux, tender, soft

du, of the

d’une, of a

éclatant, brilliant

effacé, unobtrusive

égal, regular

également, equally

emportement, transport

en, in

enchaînez, attacca

encore, still

ennemi, enemy, tué à l’ennemi, killed in action

entrée, entrance, beginning

et, and

été, summer

étouffé, damped

expressif, expressive

extrêmement, extremely

fin, end

gardent, keep, maintain

gracieux, gracefully

joyeux, joyfully

jusqu’à (u), until

/’, la, le, les, the

(en) laissant aller, relaxing (the tempo)

laisser, let

langueur, languor

léger, light

lent, slow

lenteur, slowness

librement, freely

lié, legato

lointain(e), distant

lourd, heavy

lourdeur, heaviness

mais, but

marqué, marcato

Mars, March

m.d., right hand

même, same

mesuré, measured, moderato

mesures, measures

m.g., left h...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Glossary of French Terms
• Prélude, Cortège et Air de Danse
• Petite Suite
• Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune
• Six Épigraphes Antiques