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    “Homage to Claude Debussy“ (1952 )

           Raoul Dufy

               _____

if I object to sonatas consisting of only 

one movement, I can also object to 

sonatas consisting of more than two

instruments, but here’s Debussy’s

Sonata for flute, viola and harp, 

which should more accurately have 

been called a trio, a trio is a sonata 

with three instruments

note also in the Debussy the breakdown

of all the Classical imperatives, tempo, 

tonality, and repetition, another blow to

established authority 

but the test is, does it work, at which 

point, if it does, terminology becomes 

moot, and meaning changes 

today, I pondered the word love, its 

myriad meanings, and how we still 

call that infinite variety of emotions 

the same thing, the word sonata 

doesn’t hold a candle to the word 

love for disinformation

I thought, okay, just make it work,

I’ll define it for myself later, each 

one of us being the final arbiter 

of our own aesthetic sensibility

Debussy or not Debussy, that is 

the question

R ! chard