Voiles

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Voiles, a composition for solo piano, is the 2nd piece of Claude Debussy's first book of preludes. The title of the piece may mean either veils or sails; both connotations were intended by Debussy. Except for one measure using the chromatic scale, and a short pentatonic passage, the entire piece uses the whole-tone scale.[1]

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  1. ^ pp. 133–136, The Piano Works of Claude Debussy, Elie Robert Schmitz, with foreword by Virgil Thomson, Courier Dover Publications, 1966. ISBN 0486215679.