7500:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Maurice Ravel, Exploring Music, Pentatonic Scale
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Chapter 34: the style of music that is characterized by modal and exotic scales (chromatic, whole tone, and pentatonic), unresolved dissonances, parallel chords, rich orchestral color, and free rhythm, all generally cast in small-scale programmatic forms is called. _______impressionism______________: the most important french impressionist composer was ___claude. His orchestral work, prelude to the afternoon of a faun, was inspired by a symbolist poem: debussy and maurice ravel were highly influenced by new sounds of non- Western and traditional music styles heard at the paris ____world exhibition_____________ of 1889. Chapter 36: the style of igor stravinsky"s early works, including his ballets the. Firebird, petrushka, and the rite of spring, is strongly. ______nationalistic____________; the last of these re-creates rites of ancient russia: arnold schoenberg, along with his students alban berg and anton. Webern, comprise the _____second vietnese________________ school: arnold schoenberg was highly influential in german.