Debussy wanted to distance himself from what he considered the emotional excess of the Romantics and instead wanted to write music that, through sound, created an ambience similar to that of the Impressionist painters and Symbolist poets of his day.
All books initially copyrighted in the US from 1964 through 1977 have had their copyrights automatically renewed (by law) and the copyrights are still in force. The initial copyright term was 28 years; the renewal was for 67 more years.
First the copyright can expire at the end of it's natural term. All books published before 1923 â¦ fall into this class. Second, books published before 1964 but after 1923 which were not properly renewed are considered to also be public domain.