Debussyanadj.n.
/dəˈbuːsɪən/ A. adj.
Of or pertaining to the French composer Claude Debussy (1862–1918), his music or his style of musical composition.
ΚΠ
1923 P. Rosenfeld Mus. Chron. 1917–23 147 There is no Debussyan fluidity, dreamfulness, satin.
1938 Scrutiny 7 170 Any other composer of the time using the same more or less Debussyan idiom.
1959 Radio Times 16 Jan. 25/3 An individual mixture of Hungarian folk-song, Debussyan orchestration, and modal inflexions.
B. n.
An admirer or follower of Debussy.
ΚΠ
1959 R. Russell in M. T. Williams Art of Jazz (1960) xviii. 209 The light polychrome orchestral palette of the Debussyians [sic].
Derivatives
Debussyˈesque adj. resembling the style of Debussy.
ΚΠ
1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) x. 229 A rambling piece in unresolved Debussyesque harmonies.
1963 Economist 8 June 1008/1 This is not a Debussyesque hallucination.
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