BaL 5.1.19 - Debussy: String Quartet.

[Master Jacques]

You are quite right edashtav to make this distinction - "Frank/Fauré traditions" (plural) would indeed have been a better phrase, as the two composers are so far apart in method and aesthetic. I was making a shortcut, to bundle these pre-existent influences on Debussy's Quartet - in a nutshell, Franck's concept of cyclic form and Fauré's use of lucid instrumentation, harmonic subtlety and melodic transmutation. Both strands of course contribute to Debussy's extraordinary achievement in this work. He both used and departed from these various models.

[edashtav]

You are quite right edashtav to make this distinction - "Frank/Fauré traditions" (plural) would indeed have been a better phrase, as the two composers are so far apart in method and aesthetic. I was making a shortcut, to bundle these pre-existent influences on Debussy's Quartet - in a nutshell, Franck's concept of cyclic form and Fauré's use of lucid instrumentation, harmonic subtlety and melodic transmutation. Both strands of course contribute to Debussy's extraordinary achievement in this work. He both used and departed from these various models.

I think we have the germ of a consensus and it may be time to destroy the Barrettcade.

[verismissimo]

I think we have the germ of a consensus and it may be time to destroy the Barrettcade.

Perhaps worth remembering that these stylistic buckets are not 'the truth', but merely a way of having a conversation. :)

[edashtav]

Perhaps worth remembering that these stylistic buckets are not 'the truth', but merely a way of having a conversation. :)

"Verily,verily, I say unto you..." verimissimo (2019)