Claude Debussy | Arabesque No. 2. | Allegretto scherzando

The second arabesque in G major is noticeably quicker and more lively in tempo.

It opens with left hand chords and right hand trills.

The piece makes several transpositions and explores a lower register of the piano.

Again notable is a hint of the pentatonic scale.

It closes in a similar fashion to the first arabesque.

Claude Monet | Flower Beds at Vétheuil | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Two Arabesques (Deux arabesques), L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed for piano by Claude Debussy when he was still in his twenties, between the years 1888 and 1891.

The arabesques contain hints of Debussy's developing musical style.

The suite is one of the very early impressionistic pieces of music, following the French visual art form.

Debussy seems to wander through modes and keys, and achieves evocative scenes throughout both pieces.

His view of a musical arabesque was a line curved in accordance with nature, and with his music he mirrored the celebrations of shapes in nature made by the Art Nouveau artists of the time.

Claude Monet | Villen in Bordighera | Museum Barberini

Of the arabesque in baroque music, he wrote:

"That was the age of the ‘wonderful arabesque' when music was subject to the laws of beauty inscribed in the movements of Nature herself".

Claude Monet | Strada Romana in Bordighera | Museum Barberini

Deux arabesques (Due arabeschi), L. 66, sono due composizioni per pianoforte scritte da Claude Debussy tra il 1888-1891, quando non aveva ancora trent'anni.

Il Secondo arabesque in sol maggiore presenta un tempo notevolmente più veloce e vivace ed è armonicamente un po' più complesso.

Si apre con gli accordi della mano sinistra e i trilli della mano destra.

Il brano effettua diverse trasposizioni ed esplora un registro più basso del pianoforte.

Ancora una volta notevole è un accenno della scala pentatonica.

Si chiude in modo simile al primo arabesque.

Lo stile ricorda più da vicino alcune delle opere successive di Debussy.