MUSIC: LESSON 1: IMPRESSIONISM Flashcards
- Themes and melody are easy to recognize and enjoy
- it is the mark of the beginning of the contemporary
Impressionism
Known as the tone color or tone quality
Timbre
Musical style claude debussy and joseph maurice ravel was in
Impressionism
Moonlight: the third and most famous movement of suite bergamasque
Claire de lune
A highly imaginative and atmospheric musical work for orchestra about the sea
La mer (1905) by claude debussy
A work for piano known for its harmonic evolution and imagination
Miroirs(mirrors)(1905)composed by maurice ravel
A waltz with a frightening undertone that had been composed for ballet and arranged as well for solo and duo piano
La Valse(1920) by maurice ravel
A commemoration of the musical advocacies of the early 18th century french composer francois Couperin
Le Tombeau de Couperin (c. 1917) by maurice ravel
At the age of 14, he entered the Paris conservatory, where he was musically nurtured by a prominent French composer, who?
Grabiel Faure
- His compositional style is mainly characterized by its distinctively innovative but not atonal style of harmonic treatment
- his works defined with intricate and sometimes modal melodies and extended chordal components
Maurice Ravel
- Was originally used in visual and literary arts. It was probably applied to music in 1918 especially to schoenberg
- have a high degree of dissonance
Expressionism
-His style was constantly undergoing development. From early influences of wagner, his music gradually turned to the dissonant and atonal, as he explored the use of chromatic harmonies
-he was an austrian-born american composer and music theorist
Arnold Schoenberg(expressionism)
-nationalistic musical style
-expressionist, neo-classical composer
-his skillful handling of material and rhythmic inventiveness went beyond anything composed by his Russian predecessors
Igor Stravinsky
His music was initially met with resistance due to its heavily atonal content with practically no clear melodic or rhythmic sense. Still, he continued to experiment with musique concrete(20thcentury musical tyle, electronic music)
Karlheinz stockhausen
Uses tape recorder
Musique concrete, or concrete music