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

Which of the following are true of Impressionism?

-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?

-Paul Verlaine -Stéphane Mallarmé

Match the meter description to the piece it describes.

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

The most important French Impressionist composer was --

Claude Debussy

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter

False

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.

Gota (Ghana) 1:10 Correct : Tritonic (3-note)scale Avaz of Bayate Esfahan (Iran) 7:38 Correct: 6-note scale with microtonal inflect In a Mountain Path (China) 1:58 Corret: Pentatonic (5-note) scale

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

Monet

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

Western Paris

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

poem

Which of the following are characteristics of Impressionist music?

-rich orchestral color -modal scales -unresolved dissonances

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.

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

Programmatic forms were not used by the Impressionists.

False

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

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

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 carious musical ensembles form around the world

True

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

mythological faun in a dream-like state

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

symphonic poem