Debussy: Children's Corner No.2 "Jimbo's Lullaby" - symphonic wind dectet
Children's Corner, L. 113, is a six-movement suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It was published by Durand in 1908, and was first performed by Harold Bauer in Paris on 18 December that year.
In 1911, an orchestration by André Caplet was premiered and subsequently published.
The suite is in six movements, each with an English-language title. This choice of language is most likely Debussy's nod towards Chou-Chou's English governess.
The pieces are:
- Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
- Jimbo's Lullaby
- Serenade for the Doll
- The Snow Is Dancing
- The Little Shepherd
- Golliwogg's Cakewalk
A typical performance of the suite lasts roughly 15 minutes.
This is the 2nd piece in Debussy's Children's Corner.- "Jimbo's Lullaby.”
This work describes an elephant, Jumbo, who came from the French Sudan and lived briefly in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris around the time of Debussy's birth. Debussy quotes the French lullaby "Do, do, l'enfant do," several times in the course of the piece.
The misspelling "Jimbo" betrays the Parisian accent which often confuses the pronunciation of "um" and "un" with "im" and "in".
It is a beautiful lullaby with some dark moments and whole-tone passages in the middle.
Called Jumbo's Lullaby on Caplet's Orchestration.
Arranged double wind quintet/bass.
This piece features the double bass
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