Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music contains the sources of a great deal of 20th century music." To the ears of his ; contemporaries, Debussy's novelty lay in his exotic harmonies, in his use of the whole-tone scale, and in his impressionistic handling of instrumental color. Actually, Debussy shattered the concept of melody into pointillist fragments, emphasizing such qualities as rhythm and timbre. In each of his mature compositions he invented the form as he went along, thereby making it inseparable from the content of the piece...