MUSIC IMPRESSIONISM AND EXPRESSIONISM

19th and early 20th Century

Impressionism movement was developed on

Impression Sunrise

art term used to describe Monet's artwork

Impressionists

impressionism artists were labeled as

Timbre

color or the musical element that was prominent

Impressionism

"conveying the moods and emotions aroused by the subject rather than a detailed tone-picture"

Nature Sounds

Most of the time, these subjects were used

Impressionist Music

shows refinement, vagueness and an overall luminous fog atmosphere

Claude Debussy

Leading figures in impressionism, french composer and rejected the label "impressionism"

Clair de lune, La Mer, La Cathedrale Engloutie, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Works of Claude Debussy

Maurice Ravel

His compositions have a floaty and vague feeling and exudes elegance. French composer but he added bits of Jazz in his latter pieces.

Franz Liszt, and Frederic Chopin

MR was inspired by these two

Bolero, Gaspard de la Nuit, Miroirs, La Valse, Daphnis et Chloe

Works of Maurice Ravel

Expressionism

developed as a reaction to the art movement Impressionism, used striking colors and distorted shapes, form of a revolutionary movement since it focused the horrors of war (social protest)

Expressionist Music

emotional and exaggerated

Atonal and Dissonant

expressionist music is?

Atonal

having no relationship to a key

Dissonant

not in harmony or having unsuitable and unusual combination of notes

Arnold Schoenberg

prominent composer of expressionism, he had no formal training in music

Vienna, Austria on September 13, 1874

Arnold Schoenberg was born in and when?

Electronic Music

type of music that employs electronic musical instruments and technology in it's production

1920s and 1930s

elec instruments were introduced and the first compositions for elec ins were composed

1940s

when was magnetic audio tape was used to modify tape speed and direction

1940s

when development of electroacoustic tape music in Egypt and France

Synthesizers and Computers

was used to produce electronic music

1980

when did a group of musicians and music merchants standardize an interface to communicate and control instructions

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)

This standard was dubbed as

Aleatory music

chance music is also called which came from the Latin term "alea" meaning "dice"

Chance Music

is a music in which some element of the composition is left to chance

The use of random procedures to produce a determinate, fixed score

includes scores in which the chance element is involved only in the process of composition

Mobile Form

indeterminate music, chance elements involve the performance

Indeterminate Notation

traditional musical notation is replaced by visual or verbal signs

John Cage

Father of Chance Music