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The Impressionist and Modern Eras
Name: ___________________________________ Date: _________________
Impressionism Dates:
Characteristic 1:
Characteristic 2:
Characteristic 3:
Whole tone scale
1880 – 1925 Represented water & lightUsed whole tone scaleDistinctly French
All whole stepsC D E F# G# A#C# D# F G A B
Claude Debussy
Influential 4th/5th harmony, water music
Maurice RavelOrchestral Impressionism - Bolero
“Before I compose a piece, I walk round it
several times, accompaniedby myself."
Dates: 1866 – 1925
1. Unusual person2. Got rid of elements of music such as time signature
3. Wrote “furniture music”
Modern MusicDates:
Characteristic 1:
Characteristic 2:
Characteristic 3:
Neoclassicism
1900 to present
Logical and mathematical
Experimental
Abandons tonality (no key)
Use classical rules of structure and composition, but create new, 20th century sound.
Piece that uses all 12 notes before it returns to repeat a note.
12 tone composition
Not used in western music until modern – smaller than a half step (cannot produce on piano)
Aleatoric music – relies on some chance to determine how it is performed (dice, darts, etc.)
Chance Music
AtonalNot in any key.
Very little movement, few note names, slow changes.
Minimalism
Quarter Tone
Modern Composers
Paul Hindemith
George Gershwin
Arnold Schoenberg
12 tone music
American jazzy orchestra
German neoclassicist
Igor Stravinsky
Aaron Copland
John Cage
Rite of Spring – ballet
American folk in orchestra style
“What is sound?”
Modern Composers
Class WorkName: _____________________________________
Date: ______________________________________
Listening Activity #1Piece Title Year Descriptive Word Like Y/N
Concerto for Cello and Orch.
Fanfare for the Common Man
West End Blues
Concerto in F
“Cool” from W.S.S.
Petroushka
Nacht (Night)
Tambourine Man
Wozzeck
Listening Activity #2Respond 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?
1972
1942
1928
1924
1961
1911
1912
1965
1925
Listening Activity #3How 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
Listening Activity #4
Listening Activity #5 Why it IS music Why it ISN’T music
Sounds You Hear Music? Why or why not?
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