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Week 33 of Yan Bojun’s Western Art Class: Impressionist Music

As Impressionism paintings were accepted by people and became the mainstream trend of art, the emergence of movies also made innovations and breakthroughs in the music and art of the Impressionism period, forming a unique Impressionism music style. This week we focus on three Impressionist music masters: Debussy, Ravel and Satie.

The development of economy, science and technology, and cultural progress made innovation and breakthrough the core ideas of society at that time. In line with the development path of painting art, classical music has also become more and more concrete and real, from the abstraction of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to the titles of Brahms and Wagner, so that the music has changed from being like an article before. It became like a movie.

As a founder, Debussy used weapons (exploring the timbres of different musical instruments) to overthrow the facial features of musical instruments, create new concepts in terms of harmony, mode, and overtones, and also invented whole-tone intervals. Break the traditional music structure.

As the most representative musician in France, Ravel’s music with basic classical skills is more visual. His representative works include: "Water Play", "Pavan", "Mother Goose Suite" ", "String Quartet", the most famous of which is "Piano Concerto in G major".

Influenced by Eastern philosophy, high-level generalization and subtraction have become the contemporary mainstream. As the first cry of modern music, the French musician Satie, his music is simpler and more graphic, such as " "Three Nude Dances" has a lower score density than "Gregorian Lament"; it had a profound influence on the later six-piece group and minimalism.