Classical Guitar Arrangement - Difficulty: Advanced

"Des pas sure la neige" (footsteps in the snow) depicts solitude and desolation. Three underlying layers of composition can be observed; the ostinato motif that repeats through most of the prélude and resembles the footsteps, the melody that expresses emotional changes, and the pedal points that bring out the vague melancholic elements to the other two layers mainly with the use of dissonances and open fifths.

Faint and laid-back, it is unknown whether Debussy wants the listener to hear the footsteps or see the tracks of people who have passed previously from the scene. In either case, this prélude, speaks to the basic feeling of loneliness that is deeply ingrained in the human soul.