Piano WORKS BY DEBUSSY
Played by LAFFITTE
Ballad
La Serenade interrompue (The Interrupted Serenade, from Preludes, Book I)
THE Ballad is early Debussy. Whatever the story it tells (as no one knows it, everyone can make it up for himself), the outlines of the music are very clear, and the story is crisply unfolded.
The first indication of style in the Serenade
—' quasi guitarra '-suggests the scene; the fervent lover, beneath his lady's window, twangs away earnestly, ' expressively, supplicating' her favour. There are one or two moments in which either the player or the lady becomes excited, perhaps even peevish, but the serenade goes its leisurely way, the lover finally taking himself off, still playing.