IMPRESSIONISM

 A movement in painting that

started in France in 1860s.
 It is characterized by visual
impression of the moments
in terms of using different
colors without subtle details.
 Impressionist artist paint with
many colors and their usual
subject is outdoors; for
example nature landscapes.
 IMPRESSIONISM
HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
 Started in the middle 19th century and became popular
in the last quarter of the history.
 It was inspired by different factors: anti –
establishments, foreign or Asian influnces, and the
desired to paint modern life instead of academic subject
of mythology and history.
 Rosa Bonheur, Gustave Courbet and Jean Francois
Millet are the artist who started anti- establishments.
 Edward Manet is a realist who contributed new
techniques in painting and this was instrumental in the
birth of impressionism.
 Claude Monet popularize by exhibiting the landscape,
impressionism sunrise in the Paris salon in 1872.
 IMPRESSIONISM MUSIC
 It was adapted from art impressionism. In music,
Impressionism is a style of music that makes use of
sound to let the listener feel the moods that focus on the
structure of music.
 Characteristic of Impressionism Music
1. The rhythm is irregular in terms of music.
2. It avoids the traditional harmonic progression.
3. It has unresolved dissonance
4. It uses the whole tone scale and exotic scale.
 IMPRESSIONISM MUSIC
 It was adapted from art impressionism. In music,
Impressionism is a style of music that makes use of
sound to let the listener feel the moods that focus on the
structure of music.
 Characteristic of Impressionism Music
1. The rhythm is irregular in terms of music.
2. It avoids the traditional harmonic progression.
3. It has unresolved dissonance
4. It uses the whole tone scale and exotic scale.
 ACHILLES – CLAUDE DEBUSSY 1862 - 1918
 He was born in France on August 22, 1862
His parents were Manuel – Achille
Debussy and Victorine Manoury. At the
age of 10 he was sent to his formal at the
Paris Conservatoire.
 Documented musical experiences &
Achievements.
 1870-1871 during the visit of his aunt.
Clementine in Cannes.
 October 25, 1872 attended first
conservatory piano class under Jean
Francois Marmontel, high regard piano
professor during 1848.
 1874 he won third place for solfeggio and
second certificate of merit in the piano
exam playing Chopin’s F minor concerto.
 ACHILLES – CLAUDE DEBUSSY
 Documented musical experiences &
Achievements.
 1875 second place in solfeggio and first
certificate in playing Chopin’s Second
ballade and 1876, finally gained the first
place in solfeggio
 1884 Prix de Rome with his compisition
Lenfant prodigue and receive scholarship
to the the Academie des beaux- arts.
 Famous Composition
 Prelude to the afternoon of a faun, La Mer,
Nocturne and Images and his famous
opera; Pelleas et Mellisande
 Died on 25th of March 1981 due to rectal
cancer but he died with his great
composition Engulfed Cathedral and
Claire de Lune.
 MAURICE RAVEL 1862 - 1918
 He was born at 10:00 PM on March 7,
1875 to Marie Delourant and Joseph
Ravel in the town of Ciboure, France.
 His mother is the first who thought
him love and passion in music, when
she introduce Spanish folk
melodies.
 Documented musical experiences &
Achievements.
 1882 Ravel took his first piano
lesson under Henry Ghys.
 MAURICE RAVEL 1862 - 1918
 Documented musical experiences &
Achievements.
 November 4, 1889 when his career in
music began in Paris.
 July 10, 1890 he was awarded 2nd
place in piano competition making his
initial year at the conservatory rather
successful. July 1891 he got the grand
prize by performing Schumann’s
Sonata
 He died at Paris on December 28, 1891
at the age of 62. The famous works of
his lifetime of composition are Bolero,
La Valse, Ma mere loie and Miroirs
 EXPRESSIONISM
 A modernist movement started in Germany at the beginning of
20th and was initially an expression in painting and poetry. This
evokes moods and ideas for which the artist seeks to express
meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.
 In Germany, expressionism became identical with the
denunciation of the western principles of naturalism, and it
started to symbolize modern and radical art.
 Expressionism signifies the artist character and inner insight
enforced of the graphical reality of the object.
 In relation to the music, expressionism conveys true emotion in
exaggeration through the application of atonality and dissonance.
One of the famous composer applied this technique is Arnold
Schoenberg.
 ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
 A great American composer born in
Austria on September 13, 1874 and died
in Los Angeles, California USA, on July
13, 1951.
 He used 12 different tones which was
greatly influenced by the modern
technique and develop in composition
that era.
 He studied in Vienna’s Realschule and
learn to play cello and violin.
 In 1894, he created the Three Piano
Pieces.
 Peirrot Lunaire in one of his popular
Expressionist composition in which he
applied the style of “sprechstimme” half
spoken and half sung. He also
introduces 12 semitone scale.
 ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
 A great American composer born in
Austria on September 13, 1874 and died
in Los Angeles, California USA, on July
13, 1951.
 He used 12 different tones which was
greatly influenced by the modern
technique and develop in composition
that era.
 He studied in Vienna’s Realschule and
learn to play cello and violin.
 In 1894, he created the Three Piano
Pieces.
 Peirrot Lunaire in one of his popular
Expressionist composition in which he
applied the style of “sprechstimme” half
spoken and half sung. He also
introduces 12 semitone scale.
 TWELE TONE SCALE
Also known as “Dodecaphony” (Twelve-note composition) musical method
devised by “Arnold Schoenberg” means ensuring 12th notes of the
chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music
while preventing the emphasize of any one note.

Semitone - (Half step or half tone) commonly used in Western tonal

music and considered the most dissonance when sounded harmonically. It
is the shortest distance between two keys on the piano. It can be from
black to white keys, white to black keys or white to white keys. Example:
C# to D, F# to G and B to C.

1. Original Form (Forward) Play it from the 1st note to the 12th note.
2. Retrograde Form (Backward) use the 12th note as the as the 1st one,
going to the 1st as the last note. Play it form the 12th note to the 1st
note.
3. Inversion changing all ascending intervals to descending intervals.
4. Retrograde Inversion- (played backward)
 ELECTRONIC & CHANCE MUSIC
The amazing change in music technology from the
use of traditional music instruments; the use of
pornograph record called plaka in Filipino: going to
the majestic tape of CD storage; and now the new
of technology. The transition of musical technology
gave birth to electronic music.

 Process of creating music using computers in synthesizing or producing

digital audio signals. They produce music out of range of traditional musical
instruments and create other sound from nature and the environment which
are of larger range, higher pitch and with different qualities of sound. The
musical sound that are produced or composed can be played at a slow or fast
speed, and can be forwarded or rewound.
 EDGARD VICTOR ACHILLE CHARLES VARESE
( 1883-1965)
 Considered as the father of electronic
music. He is a French-composer who
spent most of his career and life in
USA.
 Highlights rhythm and timber
 “Organized sound” which means
grouping of rhythms and timbres to
define music itself.
 He added one layer of sound to the
polyphony to create new form of sound.
 SYNTHESIZED SOUND
 Unlike the other sounds, the synthesized
sounds can be defined as sounds
generated by electronic signals of different
frequencies. Sound can be modified by the
use of sound synthesizers used different
programmed algorithms to generate sound
to different waveform synthesis.
 A combination of polyphonic tones and
another layer of sound, and is mixed to
produce a different a different kind of
sound. The reason why traditional
composer produce another kind of notation
because of the unconventional sound
produced by electronic music. They give
birth to “Canon”, as a response to
electronic or synthesized music.
 WHAT IS A CANON?
 Musical piece which consists of two or more voices or
instruments that are being played or started at different
intervals. A round is also a canon, which is a repeated song
followed by the other person where the first started.
 CHANCE MUSIC
 It is called “Aleatory Music, which is derived from the
Latin word, alea meaning dice. As the name suggests.
It is a composition based on chance. The result of the
experimentation by chance is the composition song to
be played, and that is the aleatory or chance music.