MUSIC OF20TH

CENTURY
 LEARNING COMPETENCIES

•Listens perceptively to selected

20th century music;
•Describes distinctive musical
elements of given pieces in 20th
century styles;
WARM UP ACTIVITY
 QUESTIONS
•What is music for you?
•How important is music
for you?
 IMPRESSIONISM
•It is a style of music that makes
use of sound to let the listener
feel the moods that focus on
the structure of music.
 IMPRESSIONISM
•This style covered the
decades from 1870-
1920
 WHOLE-TONE SCALE
•This is a pattern constructed entirely of
whole tone intervals.
•This is not a form from the black or
white keys of the piano keys alone but
by a combination of both.
 PARALLEL/ GLIDING CHORDS
•This is the interval of the
lowest and highest notes
forming a chord.
 DISSONANCE
•It is the lack of agreement and
consistency in the progress of
harmony of music.
IMPRESSIONIST
COMPOSERS
 CLAUDE-ACHILLE
DEBUSSY (1862-1918)

• FRENCH COMPOSER
• FIRST IMPRESSIONIST
COMPOSER
• MOST IMFLUENTIAL
COMPOSERS OF THE LATE 19TH
AND 20TH CENTURY.
• Claire de Lune (Moonlight)
JOSEPH MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)
• FRENCH COMPOSER, PIANIST
AND CONDUCTOR
• 1920-1930- FRANCE’S
GREATEST LIVING
COMPOSER.
 JOSEPH MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)
• Rhythms are more incisive.
• Melodies are broader in span
and use “added” notes and
unresolved appoggiaturas.
• Harmonies are dissonance.
• Orchestration are influenced
by the 19th century composers.
JOSEPH MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)

Appoggiatura- is
written as a grace note
prefixed to a principal
note and printed in
small character.
BOLERO
 SYNTHESIS
•Impressionism is important because it
shows that art does not have to be
held to the same standards as what
has been produced before.
Impressionists found themselves
fighting against the established norms
in French art.
 ACTIVITIES
•Listen to the bolero song
composition and try to imitate
the pattern of the snare drum
by tapping your hands in the
arm chair.