Claude Debussy – L’Isle Joyeuse (The Isle of Joy) (Symphonic Band)

L'isle Joyeuse (The Isle of Joy) (1903-04) drew its inspiration from a Rococo painting (“Embarkation for Cythera”) by Jean-Antoine Watteau. According to legend, Cythera is the birthplace of Venus, the goddess of love. Debussy calls the work “an orchestral reduction for piano”

This arrangement by Richard Byrnes is for symphonic band:

(1Picc,4Fl,2AFl,2Ob,2Bn,Cbn,2ASx,TSx,BiSx,4Hn,3Cnt,3Trom,2Eu,2Tu,Cb,Timp,Perc,2Hp,Celesta)

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