1. The Impressionist and Modern Eras Name: ___________________________________Date: _________________ Impressionism Dates: Characteristic 1: Characteristic 2: Characteristic 3: Whole tone scale 1880 – 1925 Represented water & light Used whole tone scale Distinctly French All whole steps C D E F# G# A# C# D# F G A B Claude Debussy Influential 4 th /5 th harmony, water music Maurice Ravel Orchestral Impressionism - Bolero

2. “Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself." Dates: 1866 – 1925 1. Unusual person 2. Got rid of elements of music such as time signature 3. Wrote “furniture music”

3. Modern Music Dates: Characteristic 1: Characteristic 2: Characteristic 3: Neoclassicism 1900 to present Logical and mathematical Experimental Abandons tonality (no key) Use classical rules of structure and composition, but create new, 20 th century sound. Piece that uses all 12 notes before it returns to repeat a note. 12 tone composition

4. Not used in western music until modern – smaller than a half step (cannot produce on piano) Aleatoric music – relies on some chance to determine how it is performed (dice, darts, etc.) Chance Music Atonal Not in any key. Very little movement, few note names, slow changes. Minimalism Quarter Tone

5. Modern Composers Paul Hindemith George Gershwin Arnold Schoenberg 12 tone music American jazzy orchestra German neoclassicist

6. Igor Stravinsky Aaron Copland John Cage Rite of Spring – ballet American folk in orchestra style “What is sound?” Modern Composers

7. Class Work Name: _____________________________________ Date: ______________________________________ Listening Activity #1 Piece Title Year Descriptive Word Like Y/N Concerto for Cello and Orch. Fanfare for the Common Man West End Blues Concerto in F “Cool” from W.S.S. Petroushka Nacht (Night) Tambourine Man Wozzeck Listening Activity #2 Respond to this question while listening to music from the Rite of Spring. Why do you think people reacted so violently to the performance of the Rite of Spring? Would it be possible for you to go to a concert and have that kind of reaction? 1972 1942 1928 1924 1961 1911 1912 1965 1925

8. Listening Activity #3 How does each piece give you the feeling of war victims? Think. Each answer is worth three points: 1) Complete sentence, 2) Includes at least one unique descriptive adjective (not the same adjective for each piece) and 3) Includes at least one musical term (melody, harmony, dynamics, timbre, tempo, etc.) Example: This piece has harsh sounding harmonies which represent the painful emotions that victims in war experience. Piece 1: A Survivor From Warsaw Piece 2: A Quartet for the End of Time Piece 3: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima Piece 4: Black Angels

9. Listening Activity #4 Listening Activity #5 Why it IS music Why it ISN’T music Sounds You Hear Music? Why or why not?