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The Contemporary Period

The Contemporary Period. Post-Romanticism – Germany, Austria Impressionism -- France. Impressionism. French! Movement began with the painters . . . Use of light and color to create their “first impressions”

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The Contemporary Period

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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 café 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 • “Let’s go . . . He’s 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

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