music impressionism q1

monophonic

single voice or melody line

modal

early form of key signature

renaissance period

- Rebirth
- Choral Pieces & Madrigals

baroque period

- Complex pieces and Intricate harmonies
- Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel
- Concerto and Sonata

classical period

- Structures music
- Harpsichord was replaced by a piano
- Instrumentation had a lighter texture than Baroque

romantic period

- Virtuoso
- Instrumentation became more prominent
- Public concerts and operas
- Interest in art and literature

program music

music that tells a story

Wassily Kandinsky

first prominent figure in the visual arts to create completely non-representational works

Maurice Maeterlinck

non-realist evidence; rihc with psychological symbolism

Marcel Proust

“stream of consciousness” writing ignored the mandates of chronologyandlogical flow for a more accurate depiction of unfiltered memory and thought

Performance Practice

- how composers perform music
- musical techniques employed in a specific musical genre
- implied and not written or notated techniques

composition

- original piece of work, either instrumental or vocal
- can be classified according to the structure of the composition
- process of creating the musical piece
- musical notation, scores, melody, rhythm, and other elements of music

setting

- written based on a literary work |- can be set and adapted to music
- choral music and vocal music

composer

writes the lyrics

performer

uses instruments or vocals to produce musical sounds

audience

listens to the musical composition

atonal/atonality

- musical style with no traditional harmonic key concept
- does not use the standard scales and modes found in tonal

impressionism

- 1890-1920
- make use of sound to let the listener feel the moods that focus on thestructureofmusic
- create vague impressions and moods through rich and varied harmoniesandtimbres
- one of the earliest musical forms that paved the way for this modernera
- had its foremost proponents in the French composers

impression

a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience,

impressionist

entertainer who does impressions of notedpersonalities

ambient music

- emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structureor rhythm
- background music

claude debussy

born in August 22, 1862, in St. Germain-en-Laye, France

“Father of the Modern School of Composition”

maurice ravel

born March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, France
- son of a Basque mother and Swiss father
- age of 14, entered Paris Conservatory with Gabriel Faure (eminent French composer)
- compositional style is characterized by distinctively innovative but atonal style of harmonic treatment with intricate and sometimes modal and extended chordal components