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Claude Debussy
"Golliwog's Cakewalk" from Children's Corner

 

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Debussy: Children's Corner Suite

Non-Dancing Music Based on Dances

The last movement of Claude Debussy's Children's Corner is a cakewalk -- a dance done by African-American slaves on plantations. But Debussy didn't intend for anyone to dance to his cakewalk. Lots of other composers wrote music that wasn't meant for dancing, even though it was based on dances.

Classics for Kids Quiz

1. The last movement of the Childrens Corner Suite is a

waltz

polka

minuet

cakewalk


2.Orchestral suites include dances that are meant for listening, not dancing.

True

False


3. Which composer put lots of minuets into his symphonies?

Aaron Copland

Charles Ives

Franz Joseph Haydn

Leonard Bernstein


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