1st Quarter Lesson #2 MAPEH For Today's Learner 7 Expressionism

2. • Melody was not absent during the
20th century.
• Melodic compositions has been less
important.
• It gave an abstract form called
expressionism.

3. • Highly expressive style
• Expressed disturbed condition of
the mind.
• German’s reaction to French
impressionism.

4. • Expressionism is better performed
with instruments than sung.
• Expressionism composers:
–New methods of composition
–New performance techniques
–New concepts of music theory

5. • From simple meters to complex
rhythms
• Polyrhythms
• Polymeter
• Computer music
• Polyharmony (dissonant)
• Polytonality

6. • Atonality
–More of an innovation
–Eliminated the structure of key
signature
–More dissonant sounds

8. • Austrian composer
• Violin lessons at age 8
• Counterpoint lesson with Zemlinsky
and introduced him to Vienna’s
Style of Music
• He composed Transfigured Night

9. • It is the arrangement of 12 chromatic
pitches in series that provides the
melodic and harmonic basis for a music
composition.
–Prime
–Inversion
–Retrograde
–Retrograde Inversion

10. • Famous compositions:
–Pierrot Lunaire
–The Blessed Hand
–Sleepwalker

11. • Russian composer, pianist and
conductor
• Family of musician
• Father – bass singer of the Imperial
Opera

12. • He studied law and philosophy at St
Petersburg University.
• Korsakov (Russian Composer) liked
his composition and trained him in
orchestration and became his
adviser.

13. • Famous compositions:
–The Rite of Spring
–Oedipus rex
–The Wedding