music for learners and learn about 20th century music.

1. Music of the 20th
Century

2. Impressionism
Shifting of Effects Without Subtle Details

3. Impressionism History
Started in mid 19th
century
Inspired by the desire to paint modern life
Initiated by:
Rosa Bonheur
Gustav Courbet
Jean – François Millet

4. Impressionism In Music
Making use of sound to
let the listener to feel the
mood focusing on
the structure of music

5. Chracteristics of Impressionism In
Music
Irregular phrase
Avoid the traditional harmonic progression
Unresolved dissonance
Use of whole tone scale

6. Notable 2oth Century Composers
Claude Debussy
Maurice
Ravel

7. Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)
Born in France August 22 1862
Enter Paris Conservatoire in 1872
Won 3rd
place in solfeggio
Winner in 1884 Prix de Rome
with his composition
L’enfant Prodigue
His famous compositions:
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Engulfed Cathedral
Claire De Lune

8. Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)
Born March 7, 1875
His career in the
Paris Conservatoire
began on November 4, 1889
First public performance on June 2,
1889 where he performed an
excerpt from Moscheles’s Third
Concerto.
The famous works:
Bolero,
La valse
Ma mèrel'oie
Miroirs.

9. Listen to one of the expressionism music and
discuss what you have noticed
about the composition.