MANGATAREM CATHOLIC SCHOOL INC.

Mangatarem Pangasinan
LEARNING MODULE IN MUSIC 10
FIRST QUARTER
August 16-20,2021

NAME: ______________________________ GRADE & SECTION: _______________

YUNIT 1: MISIC STYLES OF THE 20TH CENTURY

LESSON 1: IMPRESSIONISM IN MUSIC

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
In this lesson, you are expected to:

 Describe distinctive musical elements of given pieces in 20th century styles.

 Name some important impressionist composers and their famous works

PRE-ASSESSMENT
Directions : Listen to some selected music of the 20th century. And answer the questions that follows.

1. What can you say about the music you have heard?
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2. Which music do you like the best? Why?
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3. Which music do you dislike most? Why?
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OVERVIEW / INTRODUCTION
This lesson will help you understand the distinctive musical elements of given pieces at the same time the cultural and
historical background of the composers of the 20th century. If you encounter problems and difficulties in answering it, seek assistance
from your teacher or facilitator. You can also consult your peers or refer to the module you have studied previously for reference and
guidance. You may check your work with your teachers.
Music is important in the life of many people. It is a form of art that existed even during the ancient times. In this chapter , we
will learn how music was developed in the 20th century and brought various changes in the musical world. It is a period where
composers or musicians acquired independence in writing their music. Their own ideas were brought and expressed out. The use of
technology was also utilized in their compositions. This chapterwill also help us gain more understanding on the 20th century stylistics
style such us Impressionism, Expressionism,Electronic music, and Chance music and get to know some important figures such as
Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel ,and Arnold Schoenberg.

DISCUSSION
IMPRESSIONISM
Is a French movements developed in the late 19th and early 20th century. This movement was derived from Claude Monet’s
painting entitled Impression, Sunrise in 1872. This style borrowed from painting tries to capture an immediate impression of a subject
with the use of light and color. In music Impressionism was started by Debussy in reaction to the dramatic emotionalism of romantic
music.

It is a musical style that produces new indirect musical colors that lightly overlapped in different chords with each other. It
works on nature sounds like the splashing of the waves, flowing river, chirping of the birds, and the soft music evoked and its beauty,
likeness, and brilliance. Impressionism normally gives the feeling of finality to a piece, moods and textures, harmonic vagueness about
the structure of certain chords, and the use of a whole-tone scale.
Impressionism may be described as having refinement, vague in form, delicate in nature and conveys atmosphere and subtle
emotion. Like painting , impressionist music projects a hazy and dream like quality ang usually use nature as a subject. It abandoned
the traditional major and minor harmonies and used new combination of extended chords ,whole tone chords, cromaticism and exotic
rhythms and scale.

Among the most famous impressionist composers in the world, both developed a particular style of composition were Claude
Debussy and Joseph Maurice Ravel. Some of the notable composer in other countries were Ottorino Respighi fron Italy , Manuel de
Falla and Isaac Albeniz from Spain and Ralph Vaughan Williams from England.

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)

He was born last August 22, 1862, in St. Germain-en-Laye in France. With his intention to change the sequence of music from
traditional and conventional ways, he found new ways in evolving into a new language of possibilities in
harmony, rhythm, form, texture, and color which describes distinctive musical elements. He acquired and
gained refutations as an erratic pianist and rebel in theory and harmony added with other systems of
musical composition because of his passion for music. Fortunately won the top prize at the Prix de Rome
competition with his composition (“L’ Enfant Prodigue”).
Among his composition were represented by the following works: Ariettes Oubliees, Prelude to the
Afternoon of a Faun, String Quartet, Pelleas et Melisande (1895), La Mer (1905), Images, Suite
Bergamasque, and Estampes, Claire de Lune (moonlight). He was able to compose musical pieces more
or less 227 which include orchestral music, chamber music, piano music, operas, ballets, songs, and
other vocal music. He was inspired by Franz Liszt, Fredrick Chopin, Johann Sebastian Bach, and
Giuseppe Verdi.
He was called the “Father of the modern school of composition” that marks him on the styles of
later 20th century composers like Igor Stravinsky, Edgar Varese, and Olivier Messiaen. He ventured
visual arts through the influenced by Monet, Pissarro, Manet, Degas and Renoir. Furthermore, he indulged also in literary arts
significantly influenced by Mallarme, Verlaine, and Rimbaud. As a person he was tender, loving and compassionate, he died with
cancer in Paris last March 25, 1918 at the height of the First World War.

MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)

He was the son of a Basque mother and a Swiss father and born in Ciboure, France. At the age of
14, he entered the Paris Conservatory with the eminent French composer Gabriel Faure and composed
a number of masterpieces where he studied music. He characterized with unique innovative but not an
atonal style of harmonic treatment with intricate and sometimes modal and extended chordal
components.
Ravel’s works are only musically satisfying but also pleasantly dissonant elegantly
sophisticated applying harmonic progressions and modulations. Refining his delicacy and color, contrast
and effects add to the difficulty in the proper execution of the musical passages with water in its flowing
and stormy moods, as well as with human characterizations where many of his works dealt with it. He
was a perfectionist composer adheres to classical form specifically ternary structure; he was considered
as a strong advocate of Russian music and admired the music of Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, and
Mendelsshon. Ravel’s output comprises approximately 60 pieces for piano, chamber music, song
cycles, ballet, and opera. These are the following works:
 Pavane for a Dead Princess (1899)
 Jeux d’Eau or Water Fountains (1901)
 String Quartet (1903)
 Sonatine for Piano (c.1904)
 Miroirs (Mirrors), 1905
 Gaspard de la Nuit (1908)
 Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (1911)
 Le Tombeau de Couperin (c.1917)
 Rhapsodie Espagnole
 Bolero
 Daphnis et Chloe (1912)
 La Valse (1920)
 Tzigane (1922)
Unfortunately, he died with Aphasia on December 28, 1937. He was involved in a car accident that severely threatened his
health. During the last five years of his life , Ravel suffered from aphasia where he experienced difficulties in
speaking,listening,reading and writing. In 1937 he had a brain surgery but the operation was unsuccessful. On December 28
of the same year, Ravel died.
ACTIVITY

Directions: Name the composer of each musical piece by writing CD for Claude Debussy and MR for Maurice Ravel. Write
your answer on the space provide.

___________1. Clair de Lune ___________6. La Mer

___________2. Pavane for a Dead Princess ___________7.Ariettes Oubliees

___________3. Miroirs ___________8. Sonatine for PIano

___________4. Prelude to the Afternoonn of a Faun ___________9. Water Fountains

___________5. Bolero ___________10. Pelleas et Melisande

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Directions: Look for Claude Debussy’s Clair De Lune in Youtube. As you listen to the music , draw or paint the
emotions you feel. Use different lines or color to convey your emotions.

CLOSURE

 The 20th century is a period of great expansion and development brought by the advancement in
technology. This century leads to wide experimentation of new musical forms and styles.
 Impressionism is a French movement style borrowed from painting which was started by Claude
Debussy.
 French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel are proponents of impressionistic
movement who developed the impressionistic style in music.

PREPARED BY:

IRENE P. PARTOLAN
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CRITERIA Very Good Good Average Needs

Improvement
(10 pts.) (6pts.) (4 pts.)
(2pts.)

Performed the activity following the instructions

Produced an artwork that is an expression of how

the student felt at the time the music was played

Described clearly his or her experience of drawing

while he or she was listening to the music

Wrote intelligently about his or her observations and

experience of drawing while listening to the music.

Total Points