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Title: Impressionism


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Impressionism
  • In Painting and Music

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What is Impressionism?
  • art capturing the image of an object as someone
    would see it if they just caught a glimpse
  • major movement genre of the Romantic Period
  • first in painting
  • later in music

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Impressionist painting
  • work produced between about 1867 and 1886
  • by a group of artists who shared a set of related
    approaches and techniques.
  • characteristics of Impressionism was an attempt
    to
  • accurately, objectively record visual reality
    in effects of light and color.

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What is Impressionist Music?
  • no clean, hard outlines or edges or shapes in the
    paintings nor in the music. 
  • The sounds were "painted" using richly colored
    harmonies.

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When is Impressionist Music?
  • 1885 1910

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1. Bitonality
  • Defined as two different harmonies at once. 
  • creates fuzzy harmonies.  Traditional harmonic
    progressions are clean and straight forward. 
  • Think of music written in two different keys at
    the same time. 
  • An example is Debussys piano piece, La
    Puerta Del Vina. The right hand plays in one
    key while the left hand plays in another.
    Together they create bitonality.

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An example of Bitonality
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2. Fuzzy chords
  • Take a lot of notes pile them up, one on top of
    another. You will get some interesting sounds.
    Listen to Claude Debussys Claire de Lune.

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3. Modes
  • Also called the church modes, they are special
    scales that have been around for a long time.
  • Utilized by composers until about the time of the
    Renaissance.
  • A wonderful piece by Claude Debussy based
    entirely from the modes is Fetes (Festival).
    The Dorian mode is one of the scales that are
    used (see the next slide).

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Examples of the Modes
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4. New Sounds Suggest Exotic Locations
  • Composers like Maurice Ravel borrowed ideas from
    places like Spain, Asian, Greece and Jazz in
    America to paint, colors of sound in their
    music.
  • Bolero, is an an excellent example of this new
    exotic sound.
  • Ravels Piece Albarado del Gracioso.

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5. Penatonic Scales
  • Penta meaning 5. These are scales with just 5
    notes.
  • This age old scale is often used and associated
    with the music of China and the Native American
    Indians.
  • Debussys Girl With the Flaxen Hair, is an
    excellent example of a piece utilizing the 5-tone
    scale.

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The Pentatonic Scales
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6.  Whole Tone Scale
  • This is a scale with no half steps.
  • Listen to  L'isle joyeuse, (Island of
    Pleasure) by Claude Debussy.
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