VPMA99H3 Chapter 22: Chapter 22 Study Guide
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Chapter 22 the european mainstream in the early twentieth century. Draw from french tradition a preference for indirect, tasteful, and restrained expression. Influenced by russian style, medieval music, and asian music. Create musical images through motives, harmony, exotic scales (whole-tone, octatonic, and pentatonic scales), and instrumental timbre. Use of chromatic and whole-tone chords, absence of resolution. Does not follow the conventional tonal relationship between chord. A particular instrument is associated with a certain motive. Different musical layers are separated through tone colour. Large orchestra that is not used to make a loud sound but offers a great variety of tone colours and textures. Begin with oscillating pattern of 5th and 3rd that creates impression of movement. The pattern in the a section features different tone colours/ pitches, changing into series of parallel triads or 9th chords. In a" section, pattern disappears, giving the impression of dispersing clouds. English-horn motive quickly rises and slowly falls through segment of octatonic scale.
