Transcript Part 1 The Materials of Music

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Part 8
The Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Transition IV
The Post-Romantic Era
Post-Romanticism
-Germany
-Austria
Impressionism
–France
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Unit XXI
The Impressionist
and Post-Impressionist Eras
“For we desire above all–nuance,
Not color but half-shades!
Ah! Nuance alone unites
Dream with dream and flute with horn.”
—Paul Verlaine
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63. Debussy and Impressionism
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The Impressionist Painters
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French
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Monet
Manet
Degas
Pisarro
Renoir
Light and color
Reaction to Romanticism
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Claude Debussy
The Symbolist Poets
“Symbolism…. The secret of this movement is nothing other
than this…. We were nourished on music, and our literary
minds only dreamt of extracting from language virtually the
same effects that music caused on our nervous system.”
—Paul Valéry
• Literary response
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Charles Baudelaire
Stéphane Mallarmé
Paul Verlaine
Arthur Rimbaud
• Sound of a word as well as its meaning
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Impressionism in Music
• Impressionistic music characterized by
ancient scales (church modes of the Middle Ages)
Machaut: modally based
exotic scales (chromatic, whole tone)
Debussy. “Voiles” (whole tone scales)
unresolved dissonances
parallel chords, ninth chords
Debussy. “La cathédrale engloutie” (parallel scales)
orchestral color
Faure. Pelleas et Mélisande, “Sicilienne”
free rhythm
• Short lyric forms (preludes, nocturnes, arabesques)
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Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
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French composer
Impressionist
Paris Conservatory
Prix de Rome
Opera Pelléas and Mélisande
(1902)
• Died in 1918
“I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence,
a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It
is made up of color and rhythms.”
Debussy: Pélleas et Mélisande, Act I, Scene 3
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Debussy’s output:
• Orchestral works:
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La mer, three nocturnes
Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”
• Piano works:
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Clair de lune
Evening in Granada
Reflections in the Water
The Sunken Cathedral
• French songs
• Chamber music
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Debussy: Prelude to “The Afternoon of a
Faun” (Listening Guide)
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Mallarmé pastoral poem
Mythological faun
Free ternary form
Chromatic melody
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