Impressionism Flashcards

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Impressionists

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Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, and Edgar Degas.

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2
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group exhibition of impressionist works in Paris in _____.

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1874

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National Music Society

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Société Nationale de Musique

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25 February 1871

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Camille Saint-Saens and Romain Bussine

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______ - president

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Bussine

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_______ - vice-president

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Ernest Reyer

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_______ - secretary

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Alexis Castillon

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______ - assistant secretary.

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Jules Garcin

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Founding member - ______

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Théodore Dubois,
Henri Duparc,
Gabriel Fauré,
César Franck,
Ernest Guiraud,
Jules Massenet, and
Paul Taffanel.

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Claude-Achille Debussy ()

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1862-1918

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Debussy birthday

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August 22, 1862

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Debussy birthday

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August 22, 1862

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Debussy death

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March 25, 1918

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Outstanding Impressionist composer

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Claude-Achille Debussy (1862-1918)

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15
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Paris Universal Exposition - held in __.

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1899

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Russian music in concerts conducted by the Russian composer __________.

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

17
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Claude Debussy introduced the following:

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Whole tone chords

Parallel and Bitonal chords

Chromaticism

Dissonances

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Claude Debussy Compositions

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Clair de Lune
“L’Enfant Prodigue.”
La Mer

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________ (moonlight)

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Clair de Lune

20
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“________.” - Grand Prix de Rome in ____.

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L’Enfant Prodigue
1884

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La Mer or, in English, ____.

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The Sea

22
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La Mer published in ___

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1905

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become part of standard concert repertoire.

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LA Mer

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French post-impressionist composer, conductor and pianist

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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

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Ravel bday

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March 7, 1875

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Village near

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Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France.

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Ravel death

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December 28, 1937

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Ravel entered the Paris Conservatory

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1889-1905

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director of the conservatory

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Théodore Dubois

30
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Jeux d’eau

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1901

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roughly translated as the Play of Water

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Jeux d’eau

32
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one-movement orchestral work

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Bolero

33
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_______ once even likened the French composer to a “Swiss watchmaker”

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Igor Stravinsky