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QUARTER 1

NAME: Ompod, Gleigh Mark B. DATE:

GRADE AND SECTION: 10-Marangal TEACHER: Ms. Hazel Jane Maderazo

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 Content Standards demonstrates understanding of 20th century
music styles and characteristic features.

creates musical pieces using particular style/s

Performance Standards
of the 20th Century

describes distinctive musical elements of

given pieces in 20th century styles;
(MU10TC-Ia-h-2)
explains the performance practice (setting,
composition, role of composers/performers,
and audience) of 20th century music;
Most Essential Learning (MU10TC-Ib-g-4)
Competencies relates 20th Century music to other art forms
and media during the same time period;
(MU10TC-Ia-g-3)
performs music sample from the 20th century
(MU10TC-Ib-5)
evaluates music and music performances
using guided rubrics

OVERVIEW

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Romantic impulse had run its course.
Composers reached artistic maturity in the final years of the century of the century to
bridge the gap between the dying Romanticism and the twentieth century.
Twentieth-century music has seen a great coming and going of various movements.
Some composers of the period continued on the traditional path: others tried new
directions; and still others tried to steer a middle course between the old and the
new. Two important movements surfaced at the turn of the twentieth century: Post
Romanticism, in Germany and Austria; and Impressionism, in France.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Describe distinctive musical elements of given pieces in the 20th

century
2. Explain performance practice ( setting, composition, composer,
performer and audience) of 20th century music
3. Listen receptively to selected 20th century music

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 PRE- TEST
Direction: Read and identify the following questions. Choose your answer from the box below
and write it on the space provided.

1. are complex with the use of very irregular rhythms and changing meters.
2. in music explores the intense, highly subjective and personal feelings of
man.
3. was known to develop the twelve-tone system in composition.
4. composers moved away from the conventional approach to musical
forms.
5. Schoenberg was born in .
6. is an Italian comic theatrical entertainment that originated in the mid-
sixteenth century.
7. Arnold became acquainted with a young musician named .
8. Webern was known for his work .
9. Pain, distress, fear and grief are conveyed through intentional misinterpretation,
distortion, and exaggeration is called .
10. is a vocal performance halfway between speaking and singing.

Expressionism Rhythms Expressions Sprechstimme

Wozzeck Schoenberg Passacaglia

Pierrot Lunaire Alexander von Zemlinsky Vienna Austria

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 IMPRESSIONISM

Impressionism is a music in which composers write pieces with the obscured harmony
and tinted tone colors rather than relying on the common usage of musical forms.

Melodic lines of the impressionist composers are often built on chromaticism , whole-tone scale,
pentatonic scale, other non-western scales, and modal scales.

Rhythmic elements of the impressionistic music can be described as buoyant, with concealed beats and
the absence of clear metrical patterns .

Textures are mostly homophonic and may sometimes move in parallel direction. Another notable
characteristics of the impressionistic music are unexpected chord progressions and unrestricted
approach to dissonances in harmonies. With such approach, the tonal centers are cloudy.

Impressionist composers avert from composing large-scale musical works such as symphonies and
music dramas of the romantic period. Musical forms were mainly in short forms. But composers refused
to let go of program music and lyrical melodies that characterize romantic music.

Chromaticism is in contrast or addition to tonality or diatonicism and modality. Whole-

tone is a scale consisting entirely of intervals of a tone, with no semitones. Pentatonic
scale has five notes per octave, in contrast to the heptatonic scale , which has seven notes
per octave.

PROMINENT COMPOSERS OF IMPRESSIONIST MUSIC

➢ Considered as the most important French composer at the

turn of the century, Claude Debussy ( August 22, 1862-
March 25, 1918) started his music lessons at the age of
seven.
➢ He entered the Paris Conservatory when he was ten
where he studied composition, theory, harmony, piano and
organ for eleven years.

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

➢ Debussy was very experimental; his use of nontraditional scales and chromaticism was
daring that time.
➢ Debussy was a brilliant pianist; in public and private concerts sponsored by wealthy
patrons of his time. His piano works are part of the essential repertoire in the study of
piano performance.
➢ His best known piano works are Deux Arabesque, Reflections in the water, The Sunken
Cathedral, Suite Bergamasque, which includes the famous “Claire De Lune” for piano
and his sets of piano preludes.
➢ Some of his works include Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Pelleas and Melissade
and La Mer, String Quartet in G Minor and French songs for voice and piano.

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 ✓ Another composer associated with the Impressionist music is
Maurice Ravel ( March 7, 1875- December 28, 1937). Also a
French composer, his works sprang from modes rather than major
or minor scales. In his later works, a jazz style evolved brought
about by his frequent concert tours and visits in North America.
✓ Among his famous composition were the orchestral work Bolero,
MAURICE RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloe, a ballet and his piano works Miriors, Le
tombeau de Couperin, piano concerto for the left hand, and
Gaspard de la nuit, all of which pose great challenges for pianists.

MUSIC LISTENING

Listen to the composition of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel (links are provided
below)

Deux Arabesque https://youtu.be/9Fle2CP8gR0p

BOLERO https://youtu.be/r30D3SW4OVw

GENERALIZATION

❖ Melodies of Impressionist music were often built on chromaticism, whole scale, non-
western, scales and modal scales,
❖ Texture were mostly homophonic and may move in parallel direction.
❖ Program music and lyrical melodies are still present but in shorter musical forms.
❖ Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel are the two prominent composers of Impressionistic
music.
❖ Chromaticism is in contrast or addition to tonality or diatonicism and modality.
❖ Whole-tone is a scale consisting entirely of intervals of a tone, with no semitones.

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 ✓ ACTIVITY 1

Direction: Read the statement carefully. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if not. Write your answer on the space provided before the number.

1. Impressionism is a music in which composers write pieces with the obscured

harmony and tinted tone colors rather than relying on the common usage of musical
forms.

2. Whole-tone are mostly homophonic and may sometimes move in parallel

direction.

3. Ravel was very experimental; his use of nontraditional scales and chromaticism
was daring that time.

4. A jazz style evolved in Ravel’s later work.

5. Debussy considered as the most important French composer at the turn of the
century.

6. Rhythmic elements of the impressionistic music can be described as buoyant.

7. Ravel studied composition, theory, harmony, piano and organ for eleven years.

_8. Impressionist composers avert from composing large-scale musical works such
as symphonies and music dramas of the romantic period.

9. Deux Arabesque was Debussy’s known famous piano works.

10. Debussy’s works sprang from modes rather than major or minor scales.

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➢ Expressionism in music explores the intense, highly subjective and personal feelings of man.
Expressions of pain, distress, fear and grief are conveyed through intentional
misinterpretation, distortion, and exaggeration of musical elements.
➢ Expressionist composers moved away from the conventional approach to musical forms. This
is characterized by the absence of recognizable melody and tonality. Use of dissonance is
frequent and does not necessarily resolve to consonances.
➢ Rhythms are complex with the use of very irregular rhythms and changing meters. Music of
expressionist composers were often built on motives and were fragmentary. Dynamic and
melodic range for both vocal and orchestral works and extreme.

COMPOSERS ASSOCIATED WITH EXPRESSIONIST MUSIC

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

(Sept. 13, 1874- July 13, 1951) was born in Vienna Austria. He was a
composer, music theorist and also a painter.
He studied music almost by himself through studying scores and
playing in chamber groups. He became acquainted with a young
musician, Alexander von Zemlinsky.
Schoenberg was known to develop the twelve-tone system in composition. It is a method that
makes use of all the twelve notes of the chromatic scale in a piece of music.
Among his important works are Perrot Lunaire op. 21 was an Italian comic theatrical
entertainment that originated in the mid- sixteenth century and a cycle of expressionist song
that requires the technique called Sprechstimme, a vocal performance halfway between
speaking and singing.

ALBAN BERG AND ANTON WEBERN

Alan Berg and Anton Webern were both Viennese

composers and students of Arnold Schoenberg in
composition.
Berg wrote atonal and 12 tone compositions that remained
true to late 19th century Romanticism.
Webern was known for his passacaglia for orchestra, his
chamber music and various singer. Webern’s first
composition is “Two pieces for Cello and Piano”
Berg’s most notable compositions are the opera Wozzeck ,
a chamber concerto for piano, violin and thirteen winds,
lyrics suite for string quartet and his violin concerto. Known
for his miniature works, Webern’s most famous work is the
Five Pieces Dor Orchestra Op. 10.

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 ACTIVITY 2
Direction: Read and identify the following questions. Choose your answer from the box below
and write it on the space provided.

11. are complex with the use of very irregular rhythms and changing meters.
12. in music explores the intense, highly subjective and personal feelings of man.
13. was known to develop the twelve-tone system in composition.
14. composers moved away from the conventional approach to musical forms.
15. Schoenberg was born in .
16. is an Italian comic theatrical entertainment that originated in the mid- sixteenth
century.
17. Arnold became acquainted with a young musician named .
18. Webern was known for his work .
19. Pain, distress, fear and grief are conveyed through intentional misinterpretation, distortion, and
exaggeration is called .
20. is a vocal performance halfway between speaking and singing.

EXPRESSIONISM RHYTHMS EXPRESSIONIST SPRECHSTIMME

WOZZECK SCHOENBERG PASSACAGLIA

PIERROT LUNAIRE ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY VIENNA AUSTRIA

EXPRESSIONS

GENERALIZATION

Expressionism in music explores the inner feelings conveyed through intentional

misinterpretation, distortion, and exaggeration of musical elements.
Sprechstimme is a vocal performance half speech and singing.
Twelve-tone scales was used and developed by expressionist composers.
Twelve-tone system is a 12 notes given more or less importance and the music
avoids being in a key.
Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, And Anton Webern were notable composers
associated with expressionism.
Dissonance means lack of harmony among musical notes.
Consonance is a combination of sounds producing a feeling of stability, or of little
desire for resolution

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 PERFORMANCE TASK (10 POINTS EACH)

DEUX ARABESQUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fle2CP8gR0

PASSACAGLIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0T_1VIHGOg

MUSIC ANALYSIS:
1. What have you observed or what can you say about the rhythm and
melody of Deux Arabesque after listening?
2. What have you observed or what can you say about the rhythm and
melody of Passacaglia after listening?

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