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    Lesson 2: Debussy and Impressionism

    Toward the twentieth century,


    the first important stylistic
    trend in music is
    Impressionism . The term
    “Impressionism” in music was
    borrowed from the field visual
    arts, particularly. In 1874,
    Claude Monet along with other
    French painters had an
    exhibition in Paris. His
    painting titled Impression:
    Sunrise did irritate an art critic
    because it was viewed as an
    incomplete work.
    CHARACTERISTICS OF
    IMPRESSIONISTIC MUSIC

    Specifically, music with Impressionistic style has the following


    characteristics:
     Neomodality
     Open chords

     Whole-tone mode
     Parallelism
     Free rhythms
     Wide intervals
    CLAUDE DEBUSYY (1862-1918)

    The foremost Impressionist composer,


    Claude Debussy, was born in France
    on August 22, 1862. At age 10, he
    entered the Paris Conservatory. He
    worked as a Piano teacher for the
    children of Madame Nadezhda von
    Meck, Tchaikovsky’s patroness and
    had the chance to travel to Russia,
    Italy, and Switzerland. He graduated
    at the conservatory in 1184 and won
    the Prix de Rome, a prize that paid
    expenses to study and compose in
    Rome.He wrote some choral
    compositions and cantatas then
    returned to Paris.
    Other compositions written by Debussy are the following:

    Orchestral Works
     Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
     La Mer (The Sea)
     Nocturnes
    Piano Compositions
     Petite Suite
     Suite Bergamasque-including “Clair de lune”
     Children’s corner
     Estampes
     Images
    Stage Works
     Jeux-Debussy’s ballet
     Pelleas and Melisande-Debussy’s only opera
    SCHOENBERG AND EXPRESSIONISM
    (1862-1918)
    CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPRESSIONISTIC
    MUSIC

    As significant a movement as
    Impressionism is Expressionism in • Pierrot Lunaire,
    music. This term, like Op. 21 (1912)
    Impressionism, is also borrowed and
    from the visual arts. Expressionism • A survivor from
    emphasizes intense and subjective Warsaw, Op. 46
    emotions rather than portraying the (1947) by
    outward appearances. Schoenberg
    There are three composers who are • Five Pieces for
    identified with Expressionism: Orchestra, Op.
    Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and 10 by Webern
    Anton Webern. Examples of their
    compositions with the
    Expressionistic style are:
    ATONALITY
    The feeling of having a home key has been used for so many centuries
    throughout music history.
    Sample of atonal passage:

    Twelve-Tone System
    When you hear the describing words twelve-tone or dodecaphonic , it refers
    to music based on a serial manipulation of the twelve chromatic pitches.

    Multiple Serialization
    The twelve-tone system is just one form of serialism, in which only the
    pitches of the tone row are manipulated in series.
    ARNOLD SCHOENBERG (1874-1951)

    One of
    the most influential composers of
    the twentieth century, Arnold
    Schoenberg, was born in Austria in
    1874.
    Schoenberg wrote a string sextet
    Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured
    Night), Op. 4 in 1899. It was his
    first masterpiece, a story of two
    lovers. He also wrote a huge cantata,
    Gurrelieder (Songs of Gurre) from
    1901-1910. In 1904, he taught music
    theory and composition in Vienna.
    Alban Berh and Anton Webern were
    his students.
    Schoenberg’s works with Expressionistic style include the
    following:
    1. Pierrot Lunaire, (Op. 21 (Moonstruck Pierrot, 1912)
    This composition is a cycle of twenty-one songs for female and
    chamber group accompaniment played by five musicians. In this wor,
    Schoenberg developed a gliding speech-long called sprechstimme or
    sprechgesang. This unique vocal style is half-spoken, half-sung text
    that he employed in this composition.

    2. A survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46 (1947)

    3. The violin Concerto, Op. 36 and Piano Concerto, Op. 42


    The End…….

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