page_title: L'isle joyeuse
section_title: Structure
hierarchical_section_title: L'isle joyeuse / Structure
caption_attribution_description: The intro to L'Isle Joyeuse, by Claude Debussy.
context_page_description: L'isle joyeuse, L. 106 is an extended solo piano piece by Claude Debussy composed in 1904. According to Jim Samson, the "central relationship in the work is that between material based on the whole-tone scale, the lydian mode and the diatonic scale, the lydian mode functioning as an effective mediator between the other two."
caption: L'isle Joyeuse begins with a chromatically descending whole tone cadenza.[citation needed] About this soundPlay (help·info)
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