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Unit 6: Nationalism and Impressionism (19th century) - Coggle Diagram
Unit 6: Nationalism and Impressionism (19th century)
Nationalist music
The use of musical elements that identify with the composer's home country
It's rooted in cultural self-assertion
The use of extra-musical elements
The consolidation of program music
The most important nationalist schools of music
Russia
Bohemia
Scandinavia
The Americas
Spain
Hungary
Spanish nationalist school
Spanish composers attemped to recover their musical identity but they failed
Foreing composers offered an exotic and picturesque image of Spain
Impressionism
This concept originated in the world of painting
Claude Monet painted a work that reflected the impression caused by the rising sun in the fog over a river. This set the foundations of a new artistic movement.
Musical Impressionism
The melody is not highlighted. Phrases are fragmented and uneven. The cadences are not clearly heard.
The musical atmosphere is vague and has constant rhythmic changes.
Ancient, traditional and exotic modes from all over the world are used.
Sound arises from ambiguous chords without a defined key, producing an effect of change and mutability.
Composition is organised in very free form.
Pop music
It was born at the end of the 1950s from rock and roll and other fashionable music genres
Are short songs, a verse-chorus form and carchy tunes
Aimed at the largest audience possible