MUSIC Flashcards
(46 cards)
Characteristics of Impressionism Music
- Innovative chords and progressions leading to mild dissonances
- Based on the 19th century painting of Claude Monet’s,
Impression Sunrise - Translucent and hazy forms, as if trying to see through a rain-
drenched window - Melodies were meant to createan emotional mood rather than a specific picture.
Where was Impressionism Music inspired?
Claude Monet’s Impression Sunrise
-Father of Modern School Composition ( Made of total of more or less 227 compositions )
Claude Debussy(1862-1918)
Most popular piano composition of Claude Debussy
Claire de Lune ( Moonlight Sonata )
-Composed BOLERO featuring the
largest crescendo ever created - made a total
of 60 musical pieces
Maurice Ravel ( 1875 - 1937 )
He taught himself music theory and is credited with the
development of the twelve-tone system and explored on the
chromatic harmonies - Composed 213 musical
pieces
Arnold Schoenberg ( 1874 - 1951)
-He featured shifting rhythms and polytonality -His musical
outputs are 127 piece
Igor Stravinsky ( 1882 - 1971 )
The term Expressionism “_______”, because like the painter Wassily Kandinsky he avoided “_____________” to convey powerful feelings in his music.
was probably first applied to music in 1918, especially to Schoenberg, traditional forms of beauty
is a term, like Impressionism, originated in the visual arts and was then applied to other arts including music Instead of gauzy impressions of natural beauty,
Expressionism
Expressionism looks inward to
the ______ and ____ lurking in the subconscious mind.
anger, fear
The term Expressionism was originally borrowed from ______ and _______. Artists created vivid pictures, distorting colors and shapes to make unrealistic images that suggested strong emotions. Expressionist composers poured intense emotional
expression into their music and explored the subconscious mind.
visual art and literature
CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPRESSIONISM MUSIC
Extremes of pitch
* High level of dissonance
* Constantly changing textures
* Extreme contrasts of dynamics
* Angular melodies with wide leaps
* ‘Distorted’ melodies and harmonies
One of the most influential figures of the Post-Impressionism
movement in France, seen as pioneer of 20th century Expressionism. His use of color, rough brushwork and primitivist composition, anticipated Fauvism (1905) as well as German
Expressionism.
Vincent Van Gogh
This music is tonal through the stressing of one note as more important than the others. New sounds are synthesized from old ones by juxtaposing (placing close together for contrasting effect) two simple events to create a more complex new event.
PRIMITIVISM
This music is tonal through the stressing of one note as more important than the others. New sounds are synthesized from old ones by juxtaposing (placing close together for contrasting effect) two simple events to create a more complex new event.
PRIMITIVISM
combines two familiar or simple ideas together,creating new sounds
PRIMITIVISM
There was a partial return to the classical form of writing music with carefully modulated dissonances.
NEO-CLASSICISM
The composers using this style showed a moderating factor
between the emotional excesses of the Romantic period and the violent impulses of the soul in expressionism.
NEO- CLASSICISM
It adopted a modern, freer use of the seven-note diatonic scale.
NEO-CLASSICM
CHARACTERISTICS OF A PRIMITIVISM STYLE
● Rhythms have clear profiles
● Meters can have beats of unequal
length
● Meters may change frequently
● Two or more meters can be juxtaposed
on top of each other to create poly
meters
● Composers often emphasized the
musical element of rhythm in their
effort to express an ancient or
aboriginal attitude
CHARACTERISTICAS OF A NEO-CLASSICM STYLE
- Combined tonal harmonies with slight
dissonances - Modern, freer use of the seven-note
diatonic scale - Emphasis on rhythm
- Contrapuntal texture
- Expanded tonal harmony
HOW IS PRIMITIVISM LINKED TO NEO-
CLASSICISM?
Primitivism has links to Exoticism using materials from other cultures, to Nationalism through the use of indigenous materials
to specific countries, and to Ethnicism through the use of materials from European Ethnic groups. Two well-known proponents of this style were Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok. It eventually evolved into Neo-classicism.
Another musical style in the 20th century, the_____
It is a French term which means favoring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas.
AVANT-GARDE
CHARACTERISTICS OF AVANT GARDE
- Alters musical continuity
- Expresses sound strange to the ears
- Improvises unique instruments is a necessity
- Acquires new attitude toward musical mobility
- Deals with the parameters or dimensions of sound in space
- Does not conform to traditional rules in harmony, melody and rhythm