Analysis of The Sunken Cathedral

Impressionism in action

This was a musical analysis of the first part of Claude Debussy's The Sunken Cathedral, part of his set of Preludes and one of my favorite piano pieces. I approach the piece from three angles: Background knowledge about the piece, affect (the way the music should be played), and a technical performance. The video below combines the three angles into one moderately cohesive whole, in vlog-ish form.