Estampes - Pagodes by Claude Debussy and Peace Piece by Bill Evans. This short film is from the BBC series, Howard Goodall's Story of Music. Ask your students to select a World Music style ...

First there was the eccentric Erik Satie. He encouraged Debussy to write music that was not hidebound by academic tradition – ‘Break the rules, defy convention’ could have been his credo – and to find ...

Debussy sparked a punk moment for classical music ... the enormous sound world of the supremely talented French composer Lili Boulanger, who set Psalms to music and might have written a requiem for ...

One of several early pieces by Debussy that Dumesnil edited in the 1930s (with the authorisation of Debussy's widow Emma), it indicates Debussy's knowledge of Tchaikovsky's music and probably ...