Claude Debussy and the Puddle of Light

What You'll Learn

• Discover what 'impressionism' means in music — capturing a fleeting mood or moment rather than telling a clear story, like painting the way the wind FELT instead of the tree itself
• Learn how Debussy 'painted with sound' — using shimmering textures and unusual harmonies to create pictures in your mind of moonlight, rain, snow, and faraway places
• Understand that following your own path takes courage — Debussy broke the rules his teachers gave him because he heard music that 'wasn't allowed,' and he was brave enough to play it anyway
• Experience how silence and space between notes can be just as important as the notes themselves — like white space in a painting
• Learn that Debussy wrote Children's Corner for his little daughter Chou-Chou, showing that even the greatest rebels have soft hearts