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Updated: June 26, 2025
I consider "Twilight" one of the best American songs. It gets some unusual effects with intervals of tenths and ninths, and shows a remarkable depth of emotion. Perhaps his most original work is seen in his book of "Four Songs for Mezzo-Voice."
Like Monsieur Jourdain when he learned the rules of grammar, they marvelled at their knowledge: "D, a, Da; F, a, Fa; R, a, Ra.... Ah! How fine it is!... Ah! How splendid it is to know something!..." They only babbled of theme and counter-theme, of harmonies and resultant sounds, of consecutive ninths and tierce major.
And it is not on account of the peculiarities of Debussy's style of which one may find isolated examples in great composers before him, in Chopin, Liszt, Chabrier, and Richard Strauss but because with Debussy these peculiarities are an expression of his personality, and because Pelléas et Mélisande, "the land of ninths," has a poetic atmosphere which is like no other musical drama ever written.
In the insurance against accidents, sickness, and unemployment the government, instead of contributing the whole amount, gives from two ninths to one third, one third to one half being assessed against employers and one sixth to four ninths against employees.
Henry Duke of Lancaster, who lived about that period, founded an hospital in Leicester, for a certain number of old men; charging his lands with a groat a week to each for their maintenance, which is to this day duly paid them. In those times, a penny was equal to ten-pence half-penny, and somewhat more than half a farthing in ours; which makes about eight ninths' difference.
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