Grade 10 - MAPEH

1. Impressionism

2. Impressionism
Served as a transitional bridge
between the Romantic and
the Modern period

3. Impressionism
the name given to a movement
that arose in the late 19th to
20th century

4. Impressionism
stresses tone color,
atmosphere and fluidity

5. Impressionism
Tone color is the quality of
sound that distinguishes one
instrument or voice from
another

6. Impressionism
 designed to create a mood or
atmosphere (or impressions)
 melodies tend to be short and
often repeated in different
contexts to give different moods.

7. Impressionism
Use of non-traditional scale
systems
 pentatonic
 whole-tone
 exotic scales: Debussy was
influenced by Asian music

8. Impressionism
 Chords not used in
traditional ways of tension-
release or V-I
 Led to wakened concept of
tonality

9. Impressionism
 Major Composers
 Claude Debussy
 Maurice Ravel

10. Listening #1
Debussy: Clair de Lune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG-vmVrHOGE

11. Impressionist composers
• favoured short forms
- nocturne
- arabesque
- prelude

12. Listening #2
Ravel: Bolero
pg. 421-423 CD 7/8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r30D3SW4OVw