Suite bergamasque movement of "Suite bergamasque" is Clair de lune, in D major. Its name comes from Verlaine's poem "Clair de lune", which means "moonlight" in French. It is written in meter, marked "andante très expressif", and to be played mostly "pianissimo". It is not to be confused with the two settings of the poem made by Debussy for voice and piano accompaniment. The final movement is Passepied in F minor, "allegretto ma non troppo". A passepied is a type of dance which originated in Brittany. Debussy's "Passepied" is a happy, strangely medieval piece, which is surprisingly faster than its Baroque counterparts.
Clair de lune (Fauré) 1888, at the instigation of the Princesse de Polignac, he made a version for voice and orchestra, first performed at the Société Nationale de Musique in April of that year, with the tenor Maurice Bàges as soloist. In its orchestral form the song was included in Fauré's incidental music "Masques et bergamasques" in 1919. The original published version (Hamelle, Paris, 1888) is in B-flat minor. The song is dedicated to Fauré's friend the painter Emmanuel Jadin, who was a talented amateur pianist. Clair de lune (Fauré) "Clair de lune", ("Moonlight") Op. 46 No 2, is a song by Gabriel Fauré,