Sarabande by Debussy

Sarabande by Debussy have many interesting musical elements. Sarabande itself is an American Latin dance with triple time that was adopted by Spanish in 16th century. Characteristic of a Sarabande is always leaning on the second beat of bar. Sarabande by Debussy is played in E Major or C sharp minor with four sharps. The opening motif is in the 1-2 bar, harmonized by added 7th chords with a parallel movement. The second motif is in bar five with rising fourth and falling third. The third motive started in the bar 9, with a chord progression of A major, F sharp major, and D sharp minor seventh. In bar 11 there is an imitation of the third motif accompanied by a parallel dominant seventh chord starting on F sharp. Bar 15-18 repeat bars 1-4, the piece closed with a modified second motive with a lower octave.
The scales that are used by Debussy is varied, either for harmonic or melodic, whole tone, and pentatonic. The tonality cannot be said as major or minor, because even it is E Major or C sharp minor, but some reaches more than the home key. Impressionism also has an irregular melody line, this piece also sound that it use lots of dissonance. The chords that are use also varied and used added chords. The rhythm is also not very constant; perhaps it is one of the ideas of impressionism idea.
In conclusion, the piano piece by Debussy is really a good example of an impressionism, because the elements of music used and he himself is one of the most important composer during that era.