Transcript Impressionist and Modern PPT

The Impressionist and
Modern Eras
Name: ___________________________________
Date: _________________
1880 – 1925
Characteristic 1: Represented water & light
Characteristic 2: Used whole tone scale
Characteristic 3: Distinctly French
Impressionism
Whole tone scale
All whole steps
Dates:
C D E F# G# A#
C# D# F G A B
Claude Debussy
Influential 4th/5th
harmony, water music
Maurice Ravel
Orchestral
Impressionism - Bolero
Dates:
1866 – 1925
1. Unusual person
2. Got rid of elements of
music such as time
signature
3. Wrote “furniture music”
“Before I compose a piece, I walk
round it
several times, accompanied
by myself."
Modern Music1900 to present
Dates:
Characteristic 1: Logical and mathematical
Characteristic 2: Experimental
Characteristic 3:
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.
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.)
Modern Composers
Arnold Schoenberg
12 tone music
George Gershwin
American jazzy
orchestra
Paul Hindemith
German
neoclassicist
Modern Composers
Igor Stravinsky
Rite of Spring –
ballet
Aaron Copland
American folk
in orchestra style
John Cage
“What is sound?”
Class Work
Name: _____________________________________
Date: ______________________________________
Listening Activity #1
Piece Title
Concerto for Cello and Orch.
Year
1942
West End Blues
1928
Concerto in F
1924
“Cool” from W.S.S.
1961
Petroushka
1911
Nacht (Night)
1912
Wozzeck
Like Y/N
1972
Fanfare for the Common Man
Tambourine Man
Descriptive Word
1965
1925
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?
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
Listening Activity #4
Sounds You Hear
Music?
Why or why not?
Listening Activity #5
Why it IS music
Why it ISN’T music