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HISTORICAL CONTEXT
The Spanish nationalist school
They failed in the attempt to create Spanish opera and, until the mid-20th century, there were few aymphony orchestras.
Foreign composers offered an exotic and picturesque image of Spain, such as Bizet's opera
In the late 19th century, a number of Spanish composers attemted to recover their past and musical identity
This lead Spanish musicians to want to bring back folklore and works from the past
Composers: Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla and Joaquin Turina
Characteristics of musical impressionism
Ancient, traditional and exotic modes
Sound arises from ambiguous chords without a defined key
The musical atmosphere is vague
Composition is organised in very free forms
The melody is not highlighter
Pop music
Was born at the end of the 1950s from rock and roll and other genres
Characteristics
Short songs
Catchy tunes
Verse chorus form
Pop has taken elements from other styles
Famous pop artists
Elton John
Madonna
ABBA
Michael Jackson
The visual evocation of musical Impressionism
Impresaionism- 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
impressionist artist adopted nature
The rise of musical nationalism
un the mid-19th century, political movements of national self-assertion emerged in some European countries. :
features
It's rooted in cultural self-assertion in countries on the periphery of European tradition, wich was mainly German
the use of extra-musical elements:legends, historical events, literary works, paintings and lasdscape from the country
the use of musical elements, that identify with the composer's home country or that provide inspiration for original works
the consolidation of program music, especially in short piano works in minor forms and in orchestral pieces in the form of the symphony poem. The symphonic poem is an instrumemtal work with a single movement, usually for s orchestra