Debussy’s Old Hindu Chant (La Boîte à joujoux): Exotic Humorous Fakery and Rejuvenation of Music

Debussy’s Old Hindu Chant (La Boîte à joujoux): Exotic Humorous Fakery and Rejuvenation of Music

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Debussy’s ballet for children La Boîte à joujoux (1913) contains a fake “Old Hindu chant”.But laguna 3hp dust collector the comic fakery seems to provide the key to understanding the deep meaning of the ballet, in which Debussy strives to rejuvenate and revitalize Western music here by referring to the so-called spontaneity of both childhood and foreign traditions, for the sake of recovered authenticity.