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group of songs with unifying quality-Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" is an example and was set to Albert Giraud's poems |
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Features of Musical Impressionism |
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Whole tone scale, parallel chords, ninth chords, bitonality, obscuring of beat, and small forms *Debussy* |
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Use of twelve notes of chromatic scale (all of the black and white keys on a piano in a single octave)- associated with Schoenberg |
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Spoken singing- Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" was first time used |
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Klangfarbenmalerei (say that five times fast) |
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each note of a melody is played by a different musical instrument- Schoenberg used in "Pierrot Lunaire" |
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a scale progressing entirely by whole tones, as C, D, E, F♯, G♯, A♯, C. (Impression) |
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When the same intervallic relationship is maintained in adjacent chords moving in parallel motion. It could be octaves, etc. (Impression) |
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note nine scale degrees from the root of a chord. It is one note beyond the tonic. (Impression) |
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The use of two different keys at the same time! (Impression) |
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Counter rhythms or off beats are stressed. It makes the rhythm sound odd and unusual. (Impression) |
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Just remember that smaller forms of music were used during the impression time period (Impression) |
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Symphonic poems, tells a story- Strauss used very well! |
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