Chapter 6: The Mother of Modern Music (with a Hitherto Unrevealed, Explosive and Shocking Revelation)

		Chapter 6 The Mother of Modern Music (with a Hitherto Unrevealed, Explosive and Shocking Revelation)

		The original title of this chapter was simply THE MOTHER OF MODERN MUSIC and I had pinned it up on Clarices stall wall as I was removing an annoying thistle from her left shank when the Maestro put his firm agriculturally weathered hand on my hunched shoulder, looked furtively left and right, then scanned the ever-empty barn-slash-garage and muttered sotto voice (rare for him, fortissimo being his more favoured dynamic level):

		"There are tales to be told! Hitherto unrevealed!"

		At that point, the offending thistle popped loose, hitting the Maestro square in the middle of his forehead, and the stream of verbiage that flowed from that otherwise objective and academic orifice simply cannot be written down. Suffice it to say it was at ffff dynamic level and involved a plethora of comments I could only conclude were directed towards me, as, apart from Clarice, I was the only one present. It was not until much later that night as we sat under the horse chestnut tree making dried corn husk St. Bridget's crosses that he continued.

		And it is with trembling hand that I take up the pen to recount what the Maestro revealed that night, as there are forces, still present in today's world, that could

		I'm sorry. The Maestro has suggested that I deal with the main purpose of this chapter first, to keep building on the body of knowledge we have been accumulating and add, as an appendix or coda, the shocking EXPOS NEVER BEFORE REVEALED!!! I obey. So let's look at this mother of a composer:

		Claude Achilles Debussy (1862 1918)

		If Wagner was the major SPERM DONOR of MODERN MUSIC, Debussy (as much as he hated his German counterpart) was the EGG and the WOMB that nurtured the EMBRYO OF MODERN MUSIC and gave it birth, although many of the LABOUR PAINS seem to be endured POSTPARTUM by those listening to this "child of music" they created. But enough of pediatric paraphrase.

		Stated simply:

		MUSIC 1600 TO 1900 had RULES!

		DEBUSSY BROKE THE RULES!