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1. The Contemporary Period Post-Romanticism Germany, Austria
Impressionism -- France
2. Impressionism French!
Movement began with the painters . . . Use of light and color to create their first impressions
Subjects preferred stills, dancing girls, nudes, everyday scenes of middle-class life, picnics, boating and caf scenes; nature
3. La Promenade (1875)
4. Poppies (1873)
5. Fishing Boats Leaving the Harbor (1874)
6. The Boat Studio (1876)
7. Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)The Girl with the Watering Can
8. At the Theatre
9. Poet Counterparts the Symbolists Direct poetic expression unspoiled by intellectual elements. Sought to suggest rather than describe
Baudelaire, Mallarme, etc.
Greatly influenced by the famous American poet, Edgar Allan Poe
10. Impressionism origins and influences Paris Exhibition attracted to other sounds
Got away from the normal sounds of the previous period
Scale types
Chromatic
Whole tone
11. Chords/Color/Rhythm Parallel chords
Ninth chords
Use of orchestra
veiled sounds
Flutes/clarinets in lower registers (unusual)
Use of harp
Instruments used differently
Rhythms
veiled
12. Forms Smaller forms (got away from larger forms, i.e., symphonies)
Descriptive titles
13. Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
14. Claude Debussy Lets go . . . Hes beginning to develop.
The idea of spreading one drama over four evenings! Is this admissible, especially when in these four evenings you always hear the same thing? . . . My God! How unbearable these people in skins and helmets become by the fourth night.
15. Music Subtle, discreet
Short, flexible forms
Evokes images
Wrote wonderful orchestral music
Wrote much for piano was one of the most important composers for the piano of that time
Vocal composer
16. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Best known orchestral work (1894) From a poem by the Symbolist, Stephane Mallarme Image of a faun, who wakes from a dream . . . Wondering if it was a dream A-B-A