Slideshow covering impressionism and C

1. Homework
Impressionism in Music
Impressionism in Art
Music Response

2. Music Response
 Title: La Mer: De L’aube à midi sur la mer
 Composer: Claude Debussy

4. Impressionism in Art
 Originated in in the late 1800s
 During which musical style period did that occur?
 Name comes from Claude Monet’s
 Features:
 Small
subject matter
 Inclusion of
 Important Impressionists included:
 Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Edouard Manet

5. Impressionism in Music
 Based in
 Movement led by
 Features:
harmony
 Emphasis on instrumental
 Lack of melodic
 Avoidance of traditional musical
 Important Impressionists included:
 Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Paul
Dukas, Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz

6. Impressionism in Music
 Often utilizes the
 Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1894)
 Inspired by a poem titled Afternoon of a
Faun by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé
 Begins with one of the most famous flute
solos of all time

7. Homework
 Your assignment is to watch the three
examples on the website and compose
original sinquain poems for them, suggesting
a subject but never naming it.
 Line 1: Word
 Line 2: Word word
 Line 3: Word word word
 Line 4: Word word word word
 Line 5: Word