Week 1 Lesson 1 Music Theory PDF

 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 d...

 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 MSILANOITAN 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. ✔ 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 tonic-dominant relationship which normally gives the feeling of finality to a piece, moods and texture and harmonic vagueness. 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 refutations 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 CLAUDE DEBUSSY War. (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 CLAUDE DEBUSSY ✔ Claire de Lune (moonlight) (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)  ACTIVITY #4 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 Claire de Lune Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun 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. 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 not 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 Mendelssohn. ✔ Ravel’s output comprises approximately 60 pieces for piano, chamber music, song cycles, ballet, and opera. MAURICE RAVEL ✔ Unfortunately, he died with Aphasia on (1875-1937) December 28, 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 ✔ Gaspard de la Nuit (1908) MAURICE RAVEL ✔ Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (1911) (1875-1937) ✔ Le Tombeau de Couperin (c.1917)  These are the following works: ✔ Rhapsodie Espagnole ✔ Bolero ✔ Daphnis ✔ Daphnis et Chloe (1912) ✔ La Valse (1920) ✔ Tzigane (1922) MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)  ACTIVITY #5 QUESTIONS: What specific dance form can be performed with Bolero/Pavane for a Dead Princess as music? What feelings or emotions does the music evoke? MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)  ESSAY We as individuals, we have different personal experiences in life and that made us different from the others in terms of inclinations, attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs. How do you deal with others so that each and every one of us would have harmonious relationship in spite of our differences? Rubrics for Scoring the Essay  ORAL RECITATION “What significant differences did you notice about the two composers?” Why do you think they have different styles in terms of expressions and moods in composing music?