Chapter 49. Mythical Impressions: Program Music at the End of the Nineteenth

Match the meter description to the piece it describes.

-7:38 Avaz of Bayate Esfahan (Iran) rhapsodic, free meter -1:10 Gota (Ghana) polymetric(multiple simultaneous patterns) -0:34 Gankino horo (Bulgaria) dancelike, shifting meter

Which of the following are true of Impressionism?

Correct Answer(s) -It was initially a term denoting scorn of the new style. -It was rebuffed by the academic salons of Paris. -It developed in parallel with the Symbolist movement in poetry.

Which French Symbolist poets were highly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, a poet from the United States, and which were not?

Correct Answer(s) -Paul Verlaine -Stéphane Mallarmé

Which of the following are characteristics of Impressionist music?

Correct Answer(s) -unresolved dissonances -modal scales -rich orchestral color

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.

FALSE

Which French painter is credited with starting the Impressionistic movement with his painting Impression: Sunrise?

Monet

Impressionist composers explored the whole-tone scale.

TRUE

Impressionist composers used various non-Western scale patterns in their works.

TRUE

The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around the world.

TRUE

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The most important French Impressionist composer was Claude Debussy

Match each instrumental and vocal timbre that was heard at the 1889 Exhibition to the example it describes.

--1:58 In a Mountain Path (China) chordophones, both bowed and struck -5:53 Story of the Red Lantern (China) nasal operatic voice -2:44 Los Jilicatas (Peru) folklike aerophones -4:17 Tabuh Kenilu Sawik (Indonesia) metallophones

These two examples are by composers who heard world and traditional music at the Exhibition and were influenced by these new-to-them sounds. Match the Debussy and Ravel work with the traits that fit each.

-1:00 Debussy: Jeux de vagues, from La mer Correct label: -evocative of waves in the sea -floating movement with vague meter -0:56 Ravel: Boléro Correct label: -snare drum evokesSpanish dancer's castanets -regular triple meter

We can hear the profound changes in musical style between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries using several different genres. Listen to the three examples below and then match the musical trait to the work it describes.

-7:38 Avaz of Bayate Esfahan (Iran) six-note scale with microtonal -1:58 In a Mountain Path (China) pentatonic (five-note) scale -1:10 Gota (Ghana) tritonic (three-note) scale

Which genre describes the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

symphonic poem

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Debussy was influenced by the non- Western scales and instruments he encountered at the -Paris World Exhibition of 1889.

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Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" draws its program from a Symbolist poem

Programmatic forms were not used by the Impressionists.

F

The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns which?

mythological faun in a dream-like state