L'Isle Joyeuse is an extended solo piano piece by Claude Debussy composed in 1904. According to Jim Samson (1977), the "central relationship in the work is that between material based on the whole-tone scale, the lydian mode and the diatonic scale, the lydian mode functioning as an effective mediator between the other two." This piece is the more great piece of the this composer (claude Debussy) composting for the piano... is inspirating in the Happyness and love... is Oriental or polynesic. Claude Debussy Achille-Claude Debussy (IPA ) (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. ... In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole step. ... Due to historical confusion, Lydian mode can refer to two very different musical modes or diatonic scales. ... In music theory, a diatonic scale (from the Greek diatonikos, to stretch out; also known as the heptatonia prima; set form 7-35) is a seven-note musical scale comprising five whole-tone and two half-tone steps, in which the half tones are maximally separated. ...

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Exposition, 1-98

The introduction creates a whole tone context. This changes to an A lydian context which, in bars 15-21, transitions, through the addition of G natural, to the whole tone context of a new motive at bar 21. This A lydian context serves to transition from the whole tone mode on A to the A major context, inflected by occasional lydian D sharps, of the second theme at bar 67. In music, a motif is a perceivable or salient reoccurring fragment or succession of notes that may used to construct the entirety or parts of complete melodies, themes. ... In music theory, the major scale (or major mode) is one of the diatonic scales. ... In music, a theme is the initial or primary melody. ...

Middle, 99-159

The other transposition of the whole tone scale, avoided in the outer sections, is used and provides further harmonic contrast. In music transposition is moving a note or collection of notes (or pitches) up or down in pitch by a constant interval. ... In acoustics and telecommunication, the harmonic of a wave is a component frequency of the signal that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency. ...

Recapitulation, 160-end

The second subject appears in pure A major, the "ultimate tonal goal of the piece."

Source

• Samson, Jim (1977). Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900-1920, p.38. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-02193-9.