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Group 1: IMPRESSIONISMLeader: Compra IIIMembers:- Emnace- Villiarmea- Pelone- Naparate- Abordo- Gonzales- Caeda- Eliguin- Avelino- Briones- Busaco- Cagunot

IMPRESSIONISM One of the earlier but concrete forms declaring the entry of 20th century music wasknown as impressionism. It is a French movement in the late 19th and early 20thcentury.

The sentimental melodies and dramatic emotionalism of the preceding RomanticPeriod (their themes and melody are easy to recognize and enjoy) were being replaced in favor of moods and impressions.

There is an extensive use of colors and effects, vaguemelodies, and innovative chords and progressions leading to mild dissonances.

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (18621918)

One of the most important and influential of the 20th centurycomposers was Claude Debussy. He was the primary exponentof the impressionist movement and the focal point for otherimpressionist composers.

He changed the course of musicaldevelopment by dissolving traditional rules and conventions intoa new language of possibilities in harmony, rhythm, form,texture, and color.

Debussy was born in St. Germain-en-Laye in France on August22, 1862. His early musical talents were channeled into pianolessons. He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1873. He gaineda reputation as an erratic pianist and a rebel in theory andHarmony.

He added other systems of musical composition because of his musical training.In 1884, he won the top prize at the Prix de Rome competition with his composition LEnfant Prodigue (The Prodigal Son).

This enabled him to study for two years in Rome,where he got exposed to the music of Richard Wagner, specifically his opera Tristan undIsolde, although he did not share the latters grandiose style.

Debussys mature creative period was represented by the following works: Ariettes Oubliees Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun String Quartet Pelleas et Melisande (1895)his famous operatic work that drew mixedextreme reactions for its innovative harmonies and textural treatments.

La Mer (1905)a highly imaginative and atmospheric symphonic workfor orchestra about the sea Images, Suite Bergamasque, and Estampeshis most popular pianocompositions; a set of lightly textured pieces containing his signature workClaire de Lune (Moonlight)

His musical compositions total more or less 227 which include orchestral music, chambermusic, piano music, operas, ballets, songs, and other vocal music.

Debussys western influences came from composers Franz Liszt and GiuseppeVerdi. From the East, he was fascinated by the Javanese gamelan that he had heard at the1889 Paris Exposition.

The gamelan is an ensemble with bells, gongs, xylophone, andoccasional vocal parts which he later used in his works to achieve a new sound.

From the visual arts, Debussy was influenced by Monet, Pissarro, Manet, Degas, andRenoir; and from the literary arts, by Mallarme,Verlaine, and Rimbaud.

Most of his closefriends were painters and poets who significantly influenced his compositions. His role asthe Father of the Modern School of Composition made its mark in the styles of thelater 20th century composers like Igor Stravinsky, Edgar Varese, and Olivier Messiaen.

Debussy spent the remaining years of his life as a critic, composer, and performer. Hedied in Paris on March 25, 1918 of cancer at the height of the First World War.

Joseph Maurice Ravel was born in Ciboure,France to a Basque mother and a Swiss father.He entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of14 where he studied with the eminent Frenchcomposer Gabriel Faure. MAURICE RAVEL (18751937)

During his stint withthe school where he stayed until his early 20s,he had composed a number of masterpieces.The compositional style of Ravel is mainlycharacterized by its uniquely innovative but notatonal style of harmonic treatment.

It is definedwith intricate and sometimes modal melodiesand extended chordal components. It demandsconsiderable technical virtuosity from theperformer which is the character, ability, or skill of a virtuosoa person who excels inmusical technique or execution.

Ravels works include the following: Pavane for a Dead Princess (1899), a slow but lyrical requiem Jeux dEau or Water Fountains (1901) String Quartet (1903) Sonatine for Piano (c.1904) Miroirs (Mirrors), 1905, a work for piano known for its harmonic evolutionand imagination,

Gaspard de la Nuit (1908), a set of demonic-inspired pieces based on the poems of Aloysius Bertrand which is arguably the most difficult piece in thepiano repertoire.

These were followed by a number of his other significant works, includingValses Nobles et Sentimentales (1911) Le Tombeau de Couperin (c.1917), a commemoration of the musicaladvocacies of the early 18th century French composer Francois Couperin,

Rhapsodie Espagnole BoleroDaphnis et Chloe (1912), a ballet commissioned by master choreographerSergei Diaghilev that contained rhythmic diversity, evocation of nature, and choral ensemble

La Valse (1920), a waltz with a frightening undertone that had beencomposed for ballet and arranged as well as for solo and duo piano.

The two piano concerti composed in 1929 as well as the violin virtuosicpiece Tzigane (1922) total the relatively meager compositional output ofRavel, approximating 60 pieces for piano, chamber music, song cycles,ballet, and opera.

Ravel was a perfectionist and every bit a musical craftsman. He strongly adhered to theclassical form, specifically its ternary structure. A strong advocate of Russian music, he also admired the music of Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, and Mendelssohn. He died in Paris in 1937.

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