Impressionism in Music

Where did the Impressionist Movement begin?

• Austria

• Germany

• France

• England

Who were the first artists to create Impressionist art?

• Painters

• Musicians

• Dancers

• Sculptors

Which Impressionist composer served in the military as an ambulance driver during the First World War?

• Claude Debussy

• Richard Wagner

• Pytor Tchaikovsky

• Maurice Ravel

Who wrote Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun?

• Claude Debussy

• Richard Wagner

• Maurice Ravel

• Pytor Tchaikovsky

Who wrote Bolero?

• Claude Debussy

• Maurice Ravel

• Richard Strauss

• Johann Strauss II

True or False? Impressionist Music is represented by ambiguity and vagueness in terms of harmony and rhythm.

• True

• False

Impressionist composers used _________ to paint "blurry" or "washed together" portraits of sound.

• dissonance

• whole tone scale

• Asian influenced melodies

• All of the above

True or False? The Impressionist Movement marks a point where the newest trends in arts and music became separated from the daily life of the average person.

• True

• False

True or False? Claude Debussy wrote a one-handed piano concerto for servicemen who came back from World War I missing an arm so that they could still play piano.

• True

• False

True or False? Maurice Ravel recorded himself playing his own compositions.

• True

• False