The opening of Debussy’s Clair de Lune has a wonderfully free and rubato feel to it – and yet all of that is written in specifically, using in particular a shift from triplets to duples and back again.
In this episode I go over the first page and show how we might count and conceptualize the rhythm.
If you want a more in-depth look at a 2 against 3 rhythm, check out these two episodes:
https://www.harptuesday.com/ep-124-playing-2-vs-3-rhythms-in-debussys-1st-arabesque/
https://www.harptuesday.com/ep301/
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