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Unit 6: Nacionalism and Impressionism in music - Coggle Diagram
Unit 6: Nacionalism and Impressionism in music
The rise of musical nacionalism
The most important nationalist schools :
Scandinavia
The Americas
Bohemia
Spain
Russia
Hungary
Features
It's rooted in cultural self-assertion in contruies on the periphery of Europe.
The use of extra-musical elements.
The use of musical elements.
The consolidation of program music.
The Spanish nationalist school
There were few symphony orchestras.
Musicians want to bring back folklore and works from the past.
They faileed in the attempt to create Spanish opera.
Composers
Enrique Granados
Manuel de Falla
Isaac Albéniz
Joaquín Turina
Spanish composers attempted to recover their past and musical identity.
The visual evocation of musical Impression
Claude Monet painted a work that reflected the impression of the rising sun called "Impression, sunrise".
"Impression, sunrise" set the foundations of a new artistic movement
Impressionism was originated in the world of painting. :
Impressionist artists adopted nature as their source of inspiration.
Characteristics of musical Impressionism
Ancient, traditional and exotic modes from all over the world are used.
The sound arises from ambiguous chords without a defined key.
The musical atmosphere is vague.
Composition is organised in very few forms.
The melody is not highlited and the phrases are fragmented and uneven.
Important composers
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Manuel de Falla (1879-1936)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Tonality
Baroque harmony was conceived vertically over a continuous bassline.
Harminic progression emerged.
Major and minor scales began to predominate.
The tonic serves as the tonal center of a work.
Modulation
The process of changing from one key to another is called modulation.
A commonly used modulation is changing to a closely related key.
Harmonic functions
Dominant
Creates a sense of tension that is ultimately resolved by returning to the tonic
Subdominant
A semi-stable tense chord that may or may not resolve to the tonic.
Tonic
The most stable chord in the key gives the impression of a resting point.
Harmonic progressions
Intermediate chords are introduced
When the dominant moves to the tonic, it's the strongest chord change in tonality
Chord patterns
Pop music
It came from rock and roll and other fashionable music genres.
Characteristics
Verse-chorus form
Catchy tunes
Short songs
It was born at the end of the 1950s
Pop artists
Madonna
ABBA
Elton John
Michael Jackson
Love of country
They tried to evoke country's...
Landscapes
Historical events
Traditions
In the 19th century