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Debussy: Paris Conservatory
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Debussy took his 'Gollywog Cakewalk' melody from a military march. He speeded up the tempo, jazzed up the rhythms, and so helped ragtime catch on in Paris, and children to see, if they listen carefully, the title character strutting about to the jaunty music.
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The major representatives of the Symbolist movement affecting Debussy are the French poets Verlaine and Mallarme. As the name implies, among the primary goals of the symbolist movement was the usage of symbols, images to represent reality, and to evoke meanings beyond the material world, falling into the higher realities of the world of illusion, of dreams. Water suggested calm tranquillity, introspection. Fire was a symbol of passion, rage, etc. Symbolism is technically considered to be a literary school, popular in Paris in the 1880's and '90s, gaining attention for its "ambiguity of indirect communication; affiliation with music and decadent spirit." The symbolist movement in literature truly closely paralleled the impressionistic aspects in music,
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