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Estampes consists of three pieces: Pagodes, Soiree dans grenade, and Jardins sous la pluie. As we can see through the evocative titles, Estampes evoke distinctive styles and visual images. The ‘Pagodes’ is evoking a Chinese landscape of vaporous and fascinating unreality by using pentatonic melodies. In the ‘Soiree dans Granade’, he uses the changing of rhythms of songs and dances based on Spanish traditional rhythm and it is expressing the atmosphere of night with air sound. In the Jardins sous la pluie, he uses arpeggio and other effects of piano sounds to express the sounds of rain drop and the reflection of water drops. Like the discussion of the features of impressionism music which mentioned above, ‘Estampes’ also presents the beauty, pleasure of music and the nature by