ALEXIA KAYE M.

NONATO
GRADE 10 – MAKATAO

1. The term Impressionism describes a genre of music that uses timbre, arrangement, and
advanced harmonies ideas to explore mood and atmosphere. However, the character of
expressive music is often characterized by a high degree of dissonance, strong differences in
dynamics, rapid changes in texture, distorted melodies and harmonies, and angled tunes with
big jumps.

2. The characteristic of an impressionism defines, Focusing on evoking vivid harmonies,

atmosphere, and sensory impressions—often with a degree of ambiguity. On the other hand,
expressionism goes into the underlying psychological states of the human experience,
explores strong emotions, and makes use of atonality and extended approaches.

3. Impressionism Music:
Claude Debussy
- was a composer from France. Although he vehemently disputed the title, he is
occasionally regarded as the first Impressionist composer. He was one of the composers
who had the largest impact in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Maurice Ravel
- was a French pianist, conductor, and composer. Even though both composers rejected the
name, he and his senior contemporary Claude Debussy are frequently included in the
Impressionism category. Ravel was widely recognized as the best living composer in
France in the 1920s and 1930s.
Expressionism Music:
Arnold Schoenberg
- was a composer, music theorist, teacher, author, and painter who was Austrian-American.
He is regarded by many as one of the 20th century's most important composers. He was
the founder of the Second Viennese School and a contributor to the expressionist
movement in German poetry and art. Schoenberg was a Jewish composer who came
under attack from the Nazi Party, which denounced his works as degenerate music and
prohibited their publication.
Alban Berg
- was a Second Viennese School composer from Austria. His use of the twelve-tone
method and romantic poetry in composition. He is regarded as one of the most significant
composers of the 20th century despite having a relatively small body of work because of
his emotive approach, which encompasses "entire worlds of emotion and structure."