MUSIC (IMPRESSIONISM & EXPRESSIONISM) Flashcards
Who is the founder of impressionist paintings incorporated the qualities of sketches, abbreviations, speed, and spotaneity. critics might call “shortcuts”
Claude Monet
What year does the idea of impressionism and expressionism in music emerged?
late 19th and early 20th centuries
Popularly associated with English, Irish, and Scottish folk tunes as well as traditional Chinese music.
The Pentatonic Scale
In classical music, tension was produced by voices and instruments moving in a contrary fashion, while impressionism used chords in a parallel manner.
Parallel Motion
It is typical of modal
music. The music frequently emphasized
perfect intervals, octaves, fourths, and fifths
in parallel structures.
Modal Influence
- Focused on mood and atmosphere rather than strong emotion or storyline
- occured as a reaction to the execesses of the Romantic era.
Impressionism
- The tendency of an artist to disort reality for an emotional effect
- Goals were not to create passive impressions and moods, but to strongly express intense feelings and emotions.
- Pimary expressionist musical movement was atonality. m
Expressionism
symphonic poem for ocherstra by Claud debussy and when does it performed and who conducted it?
Prelude to the afternoon of a faun
December 22, 1894
Gustave Doret
Who are the 3 important expressionist that also members of Second Viennese School?
Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg