Music Grade 10 - 1st quarter 1st lesson

1. Impressionism vs Expressionism
Classical Music of the 20th Century

5. Impressionism

6. Impressionism
Claude Monet - Soleil levant

7. Claude Monet - Water Lilies

8. Impressionism
 Goal of Impressionism
 "conveying the moods and
emotions aroused by the subject
rather than a detailed tone‐picture".
 music projects a hazy atmosphere
and dreamlike quality.

9. Impressionism
 Characteristics of Impressionism
music
 The rhythm is irregular in terms of phrases.
 Avoids the traditional harmonic
progression.
 Has unresolved dissonance (Dissonance is
the lack of agreement and consistency in
the progress of harmony in music.)
 Uses the whole-tone scale, frequently
uses modality and exotic scales.

10. Impressionism
The Great Impressionist of Music
Claude Debussy
1862-1918

11. Impressionism
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
 the primary exponent of
the impressionist
movement and the focal
point for other
impressionist
composers

12. Impressionism
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
 the musical development
by dissolving traditional
rules and conventions
into a new language of
possibilities in harmony,
rhythm, form, texture, and
color.

13. Impressionism
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
 His father wanted him to
enter the navy but a
student of Chopin’s
discovered his talent and
helped him to be qualified
to enter in Paris
Conservatory of Music
in the age of 10

14. Impressionism
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
 His musical compositions
total more or less 227
which include orchestral
music, chamber music,
piano music, operas,
ballets, songs, and other
vocal music.

15. Impressionism
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
 Debussy died on the 25th
March 1918 due of
cancer at the height of the
First World War

16. Impressionism
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Works:
 “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun”
 “La Mer (The Sea)”, “Nocturne” and
“Images”.
 Opera: “Pelleas et Melisande”.
 Before death: “Engulfed Cathedal”
and “Claire de Lune”.

17. Impressionism
Musical Example:
“Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun”
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19. Impressionism
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
 He entered the Paris
Conservatory at the age of
14
in his works wherein
visual imagery is either
suggested or portrayed.

20. Impressionism
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Many of his works deal
with water in its flowing or
stormy moods as well as
with human
characterizations.

21. Impressionism
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
He died on December 28,
1937 at the age of 62 in
Paris. The famous works of
his lifetime of compositions
are “Bolero”, “La Valse”,
“Ma merel’oie”, and
“Miroirs”.

22. Musical Example:
“Bolero”
Bolero_-
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Impressionism

23. Impressionism
 What made Debussy’s and Ravel’s
work unique from others?
 Whole Tone Scale

25. Expressionism

26. Expressionism
Germany
France

27. The Scream -
Munch

28. Sunflowers -
Van Gogh

29. Expressionism
Goals of Expressionism
poured intense
emotional expression into
their music and explored
the subconscious mind.

30. Expressionism
Notable Composer:
Arnold Schoenberg
1874 - 1951

31. Expressionism
learned to play cello and
the violin.
When his father died at
his age of 16, sought a
job and became a bank
clerk to continue his
passion in arranging
song and opera scores.
Arnold Schoenberg
1874 - 1951

32. Expressionism
Musical Example:
“Pierrot Lunnaire”
Arnold_Schoenberg_Pierrot_Lunaire[Yout
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33. Schoenberg’s Works
Musical Characteristics:
Sprechstimme – Half-sang,
half-spoken.
 Twelve-tone system

34. Schoenberg’s Works

35. Expressionism
Notable Composer:
Igor Stravinsky
1882 - 1971

36. Expressionism
He added a new ingredient
to his nationalistic musical
style
When he left the country for
the United States in 1939,
Stravinsky slowly turned his
back on Russian
nationalism and cultivated
his neo-classical style.
Igor Stravinsky
1882 - 1971

37. Expressionism
adapted the forms of the 18th
century with his contemporary
style of writing.
Works:
 The Firebird Suite (1910) first successful
masterpiece
 Petrouchka (1911) ballet
 The Rake’s Progress (1951) a full-length opera
Igor Stravinsky
1882 - 1971

38. Impressionism Expressionism
-Atonal
-Dissonant
-Inner emotions
-Tonal
-Non-emotional
-“Color”
-Non Traditional
harmony
-“New Sounds”