Music Impressionism

Impressionism was one of the earliest musical forms that paved way to this modern era and is a French movement in the late 19th and early 20th century?

• True

• False

The following are features of Impressionism

music EXCEPT ___________________________

• The use of "color", or in musical terms, timbre, which can be achieved through orchestration, harmonic usage, and texture.

• New combinations of extended chords, harmonies, whole tone,

  chromatic scales, and pentatonic scales emerged.

• extreme contrasts of dynamics (from pianissimo to fortissimo, very soft to very loud)

• Impressionism was an attempt not to depict reality, but merely to suggest it.

He was one of the most influential and

leading composers of the 20th century and was born August 22, 1862 in a small town called St. Germain-en-Layein in France.

• MAURICE RAVEL

• CLAUDE DEBUSSY

• ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

• IGOR STRAVINSKY

He was born in Ciboure, France to a Basque mother and a Swiss father. At age 14, he entered the Paris Conservatory where he was musically nurtured by a prominent French composer, Gabriel Faure.

• MAURICE RAVEL

• CLAUDE DEBUSSY

• ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

• IGOR STRAVINSKY

Which of the following is NOT a work of Claude Debussy

• String Quartet

• La Mer

• Claire de Lune

• Pavane for a Dead Princess