Description & Musical Analysis
Claude Debussy’s Rêverie is a reflective piano miniature, balancing a singing melody with a gentle, flowing accompaniment. This full 4:23 edition gives each phrase room to unfold.
How to Play & Trivia
A quiet Debussy miniature
Rêverie is an early piano work by Claude Debussy, written before the distinctive sound of his later preludes. A softly moving accompaniment supports the melody as it shifts between calm lyricism and fuller, more luminous phrases.
Listen for the changing texture
This piano MIDI follows 1,219 notes over about 4 minutes 23 seconds and spans C2 to A6. Track the upper melody first, then notice how the lower register fills out the harmony as the piece grows and recedes.
Score and source
The playable notes come from the Rêverie edition on Tunvox, based on a PDMX public-domain score record. Its item metadata is marked Creative Commons Zero 1.0 with no reported license conflict. PDMX’s dataset compilation is licensed CC BY 4.0; credit Phillip Long, Zachary Novack, Julian McAuley, and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. [View the score edition](https://tunvox.com/music-sheet/reverie-claude-debussy) · [Open the PDMX record](https://zenodo.org/records/15571083) · [Read the CC0 1.0 terms](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) · [Read the CC BY 4.0 terms](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Available Instruments: Piano (Grand, Upright, Electric), Synthesizer, Organ, Guitar, 12-String Guitar, Viola Caipira, Ukulele, Bass (4 and 5 strings), Violin, Viola, Cello, Harp, Kalimba, Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Recorder, Flute, Ocarina, Saxophone, Clarinet, and Trumpet.
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