Voiles
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Voiles is a musical composition for solo piano by French composer Claude Debussy that was composed in 1909. It is the second piece in Debussy's first book of préludes, published in 1910. The title may be translated as either veils or sails; both meanings can be connected to the musical structure (see below).
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Voiles is a musical composition for solo piano by French composer Claude Debussy that was composed in 1909. It is the second piece in Debussy's first book of préludes, published in 1910. The title may be translated as either veils or sails; both meanings can be connected to the musical structure (see below).
Except for some mild, localized chromaticism and a short pentatonic passage, the entire piece uses the whole-tone scale.
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