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.
Autour de la Lune and slow rate of change. The bulk of this work was originally commissioned and broadcast in September 2003 by Radio France Culture for a musical evocation of Jules Verne. As a book, "Autour de la Lune" (1870, "Around the Moon") was Jules Verne's sequel to his "De la Terre à la Lune" (1865, "From the Earth to the Moon"). The first one dealt with the Earth part of the story until the ship's launching, from the outside. "Autour de la Lune" dealt from the inside of the ship with the launching and the actual space travel to and around the