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 Knowledge Check!
Arrange the letters to get the right answer:

1. Musical style that revealed the composer’s mind,

instead of presenting an impression of the environment
MSINOISSERPXE
2. Musical style uses a whole-tone scale. It also
applied suggested, rather than depicted, reality. It
created a mood rather than a definite picture.
MSINOISSERPMI

3. Musical style associated with electronic music and

dealt with the parameters or dimensions of sound in
space.
TAVAN DEGAR CUMIS
4. The looser form of the 20th century music
development focused on nationalist composers and
musical innovators who sought to combine modern
techniques with folk materials.
NREDOM M S I LAN O I TAN

5. It was a partial return to a classical form of writing

music with carefully modulated dissonances..
ONE MISSICCALS
VIDEO PRESENTATION
PROCESS QUESTIONS:

1. What can you say about the music?

2. How will you describe the emotion of the composer?

3. What mood does the composer is trying to portray?

✔ The start of the 20th century
saw the rise of distinct
musical styles that reflected a
move away from the
conventions of earlier
classical music.

✔ These new styles were:

impressionism,
expressionism, neo-
classicism, avant garde
music, and modern
nationalism.
IMPRES
SIONISM
✔ As the world entered the 20th century, a
new era in music was introduced, and
impressionism was one of the earliest
musical forms that paved the way to this
modern era.

✔ Impressionism is a French movement in

the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

✔ The sentimental melodies and dramatic

emotionalism of the preceding Romantic
Period, whose themes and melody are
easy to recognize and enjoy, were being
replaced in favor of moods and
impressions.
✔ In these musical style new
combinations of extended chords,
harmonies, whole tone, chromatic
scales, and pentatonic scales
came.

✔ Impressionism was an attempt not

to depict reality, but merely to
suggest it.

✔ It was meant to create an

emotional mood rather than a
specific picture
✔ In impressionism, the sounds of
different chords overlapped lightly with
each other to produce new subtle
musical colors.

✔ Chords did not have a definite order and

a sense of clear resolution.

✔ This musical style uses a whole-tone

scale.

✔ However in this musical style, it lacks of

tonic- dominant relationship which
normally gives the feeling of finality to a
piece, moods and texture and harmonic
vagueness.
C O M PO S E R
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862-1918)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862-1918)

✔ He was born last August 22, 1862, in St. Germain-en-Laye in

France.

✔ With his intention to change the sequence of music from

traditional and conventional ways, he found new ways in evolving
into a new language of possibilities in harmony, rhythm, form,
texture, and color which describes distinctive musical elements.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862-1918)

✔ He acquired and gained reputations as an erratic pianist and

rebel in theory and harmony added with other systems of
musical composition because of his passion for music.

✔ Fortunately won the top prize at the Prix de Rome

competition with his composition (“L’ Enfant Prodigue”).
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862-1918)

✔ He was called the “Father of the modern school of

composition” that marks him on the styles of later 20th
century composers like Igor Stravinsky, Edgar Varese, and
Olivier Messiaen.

✔ He ventured visual arts through the influenced by Monet,

Pissarro, Manet, Degas and Renoir.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862-1918)

✔ Furthermore, he indulged also in literary arts significantly

influenced by Mallarme, Verlaine, and Rimbaud.

✔ As a person he was tender, loving and compassionate, he

died with cancer in Paris last March 25, 1918 at the height
of the First World War.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862-1918)
Among his composition were represented by the following
works:

✔ Ariettes Oubliees
✔ Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
✔ String Quartet
✔ Pelleas et Melisande (1895)
✔ La Mer (1905), Images
✔ Suite Bergamasque
✔ Estampes
✔ Claire de Lune (moonlight)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862-1918)

✔ He was able to compose musical pieces more or less 227

which include orchestral music, chamber music, piano music,
operas, ballets, songs, and other vocal music.

✔ He was inspired by Franz Liszt, Fredrick Chopin, Johann

Sebastian Bach, and Giuseppe Verdi.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862-1918)

✔ QUESTIONS:

✔ What musical instrument is being played?

✔ How did the music affect your mood or feelings in terms of

the general atmosphere of the piece
MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)
 MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)

✔ He was the son of a Basque mother and a Swiss

father and born in Ciboure, France.

✔ At the age of 14, he entered the Paris

Conservatory with the eminent French composer
Gabriel Faure and composed a number of
masterpieces where he studied music.
 MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)

✔ He characterized with unique innovative but

not an atonal style of harmonic treatment
with intricate and sometimes modal and
extended chordal components.
 MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)

✔ Ravel’s works are only musically satisfying but

also pleasantly dissonant elegantly
sophisticated applying harmonic progressions
and modulations.
 MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)

✔ Refining his delicacy and color, contrast and

effects add to the difficulty in the proper
execution of the musical passages with water
in its flowing and stormy moods, as well as
with human characterizations where many of
his works dealt with it.
 MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)

✔ He was a perfectionist composer adheres to

classical form specifically ternary structure; he
was considered as a strong advocate of Russian
music and admired the music of Chopin, Liszt,
Schubert, and Mendelsshon. Ravel’s output
comprises approximately 60 pieces for piano,
chamber music, song cycles, ballet, and opera.

✔ Unfortunately, he died with Aphasia on December

28, 1937.
 MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)
These are the following works:

✔ Pavane for a Dead Princess (1899)

✔ Jeux d’Eau or Water Fountains (1901)

✔ String Quartet (1903)

✔ Sonatine for Piano (c.1904)

✔ Miroirs (Mirrors), 1905

 MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)
These are the following works:

✔ Gaspard de la Nuit (1908)

✔ Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (1911)

✔ Le Tombeau de Couperin (c.1917)

✔ Rhapsodie Espagnole

✔ Bolero
✔  Daphnis
 MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)

These are the following works:

✔ Daphnis et Chloe (1912)

✔ La Valse (1920)

✔ Tzigane (1922)
 CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862-1918)
QUESTIONS:

• What specific dance form can be performed

with Bolero as music?

• What feelings or emotions does the music

evoke?
 ESSAY
We as individuals, we have different personal
experiences in life and that made us different from the
others in terms of inclinations, attitudes, perspective
and belief. How do you deal with others so that each and
every one of us would have harmonious relationship in
spite of our differences
 ORAL RECITATION
“What significant differences do you notice
about the two composers? Why do you think
they have different styles in terms of
expressions and moods in composing music?
Directions: Identify the different works of the composer
in Impressionism. Write CD if the example is the works
of Claude Debussy and MR for Maurice Ravel.
1. Pavane for a Dead Princess (1899)
2. Jeux d’Eau or Water Fountains (1901)
3. Ariettes Oubliees
4. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
5. Bolero