Transcript 25 GM Day Twenty Five

1.
Bell
Work
How
To
Always LABEL you bell work with the date.
You may use the same page for several of your bell works.
3. ALWAYS use at least THREE complete sentences to
answer the question.
4. Save your bell work for bell work check in’s.
5. If you miss class, you may go onto Mrs V’s website to get
the missed bell work question. It is YOUR responsibility
to get the bell work completed.
2.
Bell Work #25
0Music is important in all cultures.
Describe three ways your family enjoys
music.
0Use three complete sentences!
Planner
0 Homework: No Homework
Today I will learn:
0 I will learn about Debussy and Vaughn
Williams.
Claude Debussy
While not always
appreciated during his
lifetime, he has since
been recognized as one
of the key composers to
herald the new era of
20th century music.
1862 in Paris
Debussy was born near _____
____.
His __________
Godmother paid for him to have piano lessons.
By the age of 10 he was accepted into the
______________________.
Paris
Conservatory of Music
He had conflict with teachers over his unusual style of
musical composition.
One of his teachers once asked him which
rules of harmony was he following.
My own was his only reply.
“_________,”
He used unorthodox
__________ combinations of
instruments, not resolving dissonant chords
or not sticking to accepted forms.
His relatively small output of music
includes orchestral, instrumental
and vocal music and even one
opera.
His music is often given the label
Impressionism
____________ for its similarity to the
style of painting by that name that was
popular at the time.
Debussy’s creative genius seemed to go
hand-in-hand with personal crises.
depression
He went through periods of _________
during which he was unable to compose at
all.
Debussy had an individualistic
___________
disposition that enabled him to shrug off
the rules and traditions of the past to
create a truly unique style of music.
Debussy at the piano, in front of the
composer Ernest Chausson, 1893
Fast Facts:
Name: Achille-Claude Debussy
Dates: 1862-1918
Country of birth: France
Historical Era: Early 20th century
Contemporary Composers: Ravel, Stravinsky,
Schoenberg
Contemporary Artists: Monet, Renoir, Picasso
Other People/Events: Edison, Einstein, Hitler,
World War 1, invention of the first automobile
Fun Fact:
Debussy was quite a class clown. One
day his harmony teacher was
unexpectedly absent so he took it upon
himself to take the class. He was in the
process of teaching the most outrageous
sounding chords and melodies (which he
knew his teacher would be horrified by)
when another lecturer walked past and
threw him out!
“Nocturnes Festival”
0Composer: Debussy
0Historical Era: Early 20th Century
0Type of composition: Instrumental
Genre: Nocturnes
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
In the early years of the
20th century, a young
English composer by the
name of Ralph Vaughan
Williams took to his
bicycle and traveled
around the rural
countryside of England.
English folk music
Williams wanted to find and preserve ______________
fast disappearing from oral tradition.
which was
English
This contributed greatly to the development of a truly ______
style of music.
A statue of Ralph Vaughan
Williams in Dorking.
Vaughan Williams was born into a wealthy
English family in1872
____.
Darwin
He was the great nephew ofCharles
____________
the author of the theory of evolution.
He was related to the renowned Wedgwood
__________
family, makers of fine china.
All over the world, composers were
pride
seeking to express their national
_____________
through a unique voice.
A Hungarian composer by the name of
Bela
Bartok was recording and collecting
__________
the folk music from his native
countrymen and using it in his
compositions.
Copland also found
In America,Aaron
____________
great success in developing a unique style
using folk music.
The influence of folk music on Vaughan
Williams was immediately recognizable in
the music he wrote and eventually became
English music
synonymous with ____________.
Even though his use of folk song was quite a
new development, most of his music was
forms such as
written in traditional
______________
symphonies (he wrote 9), chamber
music, concertos, operas, and
choral music.
Vaughan Williams suffered hearing damage
War 1 and gradually
serving in World
____________
became deaf.
He maintained the reputation of a true
British
gentlemanHe was generous with
______________.
his time, money and skills, and was
thoughtful and patriotic.
His death at the age of ___
85 was mourned
by an entire nation.
Fast Facts:
Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Dates: 1872-1958
Country of birth: England
Historical Era: 20th century
Contemporary Composers: Schoenberg,
Stravinsky, Copland
Contemporary Artists: Renoir, Kandinsky, Picasso
Other People/Events: Einstein, World War 1,
World War 11, Queen Elizabeth 11, invention of
automobile, the first crossing of the English
channel in an airplane, the sinking of the Titanic
Fun Fact:
During World War 1, Vaughan Williams was walking
along the cliffs of Dover in England, minding his
own business when a sudden burst of inspiration
gripped him. He paused to sit and write down a
tune that had just come to him. Unbeknown to
him, a group of British soldiers were performing
training maneuvers nearby and Vaughan Williams
was promptly arrested and accused of spying and
writing coded messages for the enemy. It took
some swift talking, but eventually the officer was
convinced and let him go.
“Dona Nobis Pacem”
0Composer: Vaughn Williams
0Historical Era: 20th Century
0Type of composition: Instrumental
and Vocal
0 Genre: Chorus
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Exit Ticket
0 Tell me in two complete sentences what
evidence there was that makes you
think that Tchaikovsky and Debussy
suffered from mental health issues.
Exit Ticket
0 Use complete sentences.
0 Vaughn Williams wrote songs that were variations of
traditional English folk songs. Name a traditional song
from America.