William Toutant
En hommage a Debussy
(2017)
for violin
Duration: 8'
Instrumentation details:
violin
En hommage a Debussy
Work introduction
En homage à Debussy was written to honor the composer on the 100th anniversary of a memorial concert presented shortly after his death. In addition to mixing some of Debussy’s compositional techniques with my own, I used a musical representation of his full name: Claude Achille Debussy. It appears very clearly at the beginning, middle and end of the piece. Every letter of his name can be represented musically using letter names of pitches or sol-fa syllables. For example, “u” is represented by the pitch C, which in Guido D’Arezzo’s solfège system is “ut.” For “y” I chose F# or “fi.”
What is necessary to perform this work?
Piano and Violin