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The Impressionist and Modern Eras

The Impressionist and Modern Eras. Name: ___________________________________ Date: _________________. Impressionism. 1880 – 1925. Dates:. Represented water & light. Characteristic 1: Characteristic 2: Characteristic 3:. Used whole tone scale. Distinctly French. Whole tone scale.

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The Impressionist and Modern Eras

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  1. The Impressionist and Modern Eras Name: ___________________________________ Date: _________________ Impressionism 1880 – 1925 Dates: Represented water & light Characteristic 1: Characteristic 2: Characteristic 3: Used whole tone scale Distinctly French Whole tone scale C D E F# G# A# C# D# F G A B All whole steps Claude Debussy Influential 4th/5th harmony, water music Maurice Ravel Orchestral Impressionism - Bolero

  2. “Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself." 1866 – 1925 Dates: 1. Unusual person 2. Got rid of elements of music such as time signature 3. Wrote “furniture music”

  3. Modern Music Dates: 1900 to present Logical and mathematical Characteristic 1: Characteristic 2: Characteristic 3: Experimental Abandons tonality (no key) Neoclassicism Use classical rules of structure and composition, but create new, 20th century sound. 12 tone composition Piece that uses all 12 notes before it returns to repeat a note.

  4. Atonal Not in any key. Minimalism Very little movement, few note names, slow changes. Quarter Tone Not used in western music until modern – smaller than a half step (cannot produce on piano) Chance Music Aleatoric music – relies on some chance to determine how it is performed (dice, darts, etc.)

  5. Modern Composers Arnold Schoenberg 12 tone music George Gershwin American jazzy orchestra Paul Hindemith German neoclassicist

  6. Modern Composers Igor Stravinsky Rite of Spring – ballet Aaron Copland American folk in orchestra style John Cage “What is sound?”

  7. Class Work Name: _____________________________________ Date: ______________________________________ Listening Activity #1 Piece Title Year Descriptive Word Like Y/N 1972 Concerto for Cello and Orch. 1942 Fanfare for the Common Man 1928 West End Blues 1924 Concerto in F 1961 “Cool” from W.S.S. 1911 Petroushka 1912 Nacht (Night) 1965 Tambourine Man 1925 Wozzeck Listening Activity #2 Respond to this question while listening to music from the Rite of Spring. Why do you think people reacted so violently to the performance of the Rite of Spring? Would it be possible for you to go to a concert and have that kind of reaction?

  8. Listening Activity #3 How does each piece give you the feeling of war victims? Think. Each answer is worth three points: 1) Complete sentence, 2) Includes at least one unique descriptive adjective (not the same adjective for each piece) and 3) Includes at least one musical term (melody, harmony, dynamics, timbre, tempo, etc.) Example: This piece has harsh sounding harmonies which represent the painful emotions that victims in war experience. Piece 1: A Survivor From Warsaw Piece 2: A Quartet for the End of Time Piece 3: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima Piece 4: Black Angels

  9. Listening Activity #4 Sounds You Hear Music? Why or why not? Listening Activity #5 Why it IS music Why it ISN’T music

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