Jardins sous la pluie

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Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the rain) is the final piece in Claude Debussy's Estampes.

Jardins sous la pluie describes a garden in Debussy's native France during an increasingly violent rainstorm. It makes use of the French folk melodies Nous n'irons plus aux bois (We'll Not Return to the Woods) and Dodo, l'enfant do (Sleep, Child, Sleep). Chromatic, whole tone, major and minor scales are used in this movement.