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Lesson 1 in Music 10, Impressionism and Expressionism

1. MUSIC 10 QUARTER 1 Music of 20th Century

2. Have you experienced listening to a piece of music that can transport you to a peaceful place like an open field?

3. What can you say about the music? How will you describe the emotion of the composer? What mood does the composer is trying to portray?

4. IMPRESSIONISM Impressionism is a French movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

5. IMPRESSIONISM The sentimental melodies and dramatic emotionalism of the preceding Romantic Period, whose themes and melody are easy to recognize and enjoy, were being replaced in favor of moods and impressions.

6. Artist and musicians were drawn to conveying moods with their music instead actually depicting reality IMPRESSIONISM Artist and musicians were drawn to conveying moods with their music instead actually depicting reality

7. AMBIENT MUSIC Ambient music are usually used as background music This style has an element of space when you listen to it

8. COLOR CHORDS ATMOSPHERE also known as TIMBRE "Tone quality" Electric guitar-Bass guitar focuses on mood and atmosphere. Clair De Lune- Claude Debussy experimented music by using unusual scales- made used of extensive used of whole-tone scale. 3 CHARACTERISTICS OF IMPRESSIONISM Impressionist music may use dark colors through orchestration COLOR COLOR

9. Impressionist Composer

10. CLAUDE DEBUSSY Claude Debussy was one of the most influential and leading composers of the 20th century. Father of the Modern School of Composition

11. He was the principal exponent of the impressionist movement and the inspiration for other impressionist composers. He reformed the course of musical development by eradicating traditional rules and conventions into a new language of possibilities in harmony, rhythm, form, texture, and color. CLAUDE DEBUSSY

12. He was born in France on August 22, 1862. His early musical talents were channeled into piano lessons. CLAUDE DEBUSSY

13. • String Quartet • La Mer (1905)- The Sea • Première Arabesque • Claire de Lune (Moonlight) More or less 227 musical compositions CLAUDE DEBUSSY

14. CLAUDE DEBUSSY

15. His works are defined with intricate and sometimes modal melodies and extended chordal components. It demands considerable technical virtuosity from the performer, which is the character, ability, or skill of a virtuoso— a person who is exemplary in musical technique or execution. MAURICE RAVEL

16. Ravel was a perfectionist and every bit a musical craftsman. Many of his works deal with water in its flowing or stormy moods. MAURICE RAVEL

17. Ravel's works include the following: Pavane for a Dead Princess (1899) String Quartet (1903) Sonatine for Piano (c.1904) Bolero MAURICE RAVEL

18. MAURICE RAVEL

19. EXPRESSIONISM MUSIC 10

20. EXPRESSIONISM The term "Expressionism" was originally used in visual and literary arts.

21. EXPRESSIONISM Emerged in reaction against to impressionism

22. Subject of Expressionism are; Fantasy Violence Anxiety Loss of authenticity and spiritual

23. Expressionist composer used intense emotional experience into music and subconscious mind.

24. Features of expressionism music are as follows: a high degree of dissonance. extreme contrasts of dynamics (from pianissimo to fortissimo, very soft to very loud)

25. Features of expressionism music are as follows: constant changing of textures

26. 1 melody 2 or more melody Multiple voices with harmony multiple variations of the same melodic line

27. Features of expressionism music are as follows: constant changing of textures "distorted" melodies and harmonies angular melodies with wide leaps

28. FAMOUS COMPOSERS OF EXPRESSIONISM

29. ARNOLD SHOENBERG Born in Vienna Austria. He thought himself music theory. He is credited with the development of the twelve-tone system.

30. ARNOLD SHOENBERG Born in Vienna Austria. He thought himself music theory. He is credited with the development of the twelve-tone system. His music is also extremely complex.

31. His works include the following: Pierrot Lunaire Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night) - earliest successful pieces Approximately with 213 musical compositions ARNOLD SHOENBERG

32. He was born in Russia on June 17, 1883. The Firebird Suite (1910) his first notable composition. IGOR STRAVINSKY

33. His skillful handling of material and rhythmic inventiveness went beyond anything composed by his Russian predecessors. IGOR STRAVINSKY

34. The Rite of Spring (1913) was another superb work showcasing his new technique. IGOR STRAVINSKY

35. Acclaimed works by Stravinsky includes: Ballet Petrouchka (1911 The Nightingale (1914) Three Tales for Children (1917) Pulcinella (1920) Duo Concertant (1932) The Rake's Progress (1951) IGOR STRAVINSKY

36. Stravinsky wrote approximately 127 works , including concerti, orchestral music, instrumental music, operas, ballets, solo vocal, and choral music. IGOR STRAVINSKY

37. IMPRESSIONISM QUARTER 1 LESSON 1 Music of 20th Century