GR 10 MUSIC

• Impressionism is a French movement in the late 19th and early 20th century
• Characteristics of impressionist music

  • Use of tone color
  • Atmospheric music
  • Use of unusual chords
• Tone color


  The quality and tone of a sound which makes it unique
• Atmospheric music


  Music that focuses on mood and atmosphere, transporting the listener to another place
• Unusual chords


  Composers of impressionism experimented with writing music using unusual scales like the whole tone scale
• Whole tone scale


  A scale in which each note is separated from the next by the interval of a whole tone or whole step
• The proponents for the impressionist style of music are Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel
• Debussy was known as the father of the modern school of composition and the principal exponent of the impressionist movement
• Ravel's works are defined with extended chordal components and demand considerable technical virtuosity
• Impressionist compositions

  • Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Claude Debussy
  • Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
• Impressionist music helped composers experiment and discover new ways of writing music, preventing it from becoming monotonous
• Impressionism is a french movement in the

  late 19th and early 20th century
• It is a compositional work of for the moon light.

  Claire De Lune
• Composer of the piece titled, Bolero.

  Maurice Ravel
• A person who is exemplary in musical technique or execution.

  Virtuoso
• Claude Debussy is known as

  The father of the modern school of composition
• Main men of impressionist Music

  Claude Debussy

  Maurice Ravel