Impressionist musicians attach importance to the use of creative features that do not include major and minor scales.

1. Introduction of Impressionist Music:

Impressionist music is a distinctive style in the 19th century, which reflects the initial signs of changes in a new era and is the beginning of many important features and spiritual mood of new age music. Blurred outlines, hazy colors and indistinguishable tonal changes are all obvious signs of impressionist music. The most typical representative of impressionist music is French composer Debussy.

Second, the characteristics of Impressionist music:

Impressionist music likes to reflect subtle and elusive things, rather than grand and immortal grandeur; I like hints and metaphors, but I don't like exaggeration, directness and unreservedness.

Therefore, vague outlines, hazy colors and indistinguishable tone changes are all obvious signs of impressionist music; The illusions, impressions and atmosphere it created correspond to Monet's vague impression, Cezanne's strange dream, Renoir's wonderful gentleness and Seurat's dazzling exquisiteness.

The exquisite and beautiful musical language of impressionist music, like the exaggerated loud tone of romantic music, has reached a high aesthetic level and is also loved by people.

Instrumentation of Impressionist Music:

1. Strings

Violin, viola, cello and bass cello, which are also called "bowstring instruments". Plucked instrument or keyboard instrument, harp, piano, etc.

In order to play more modes, the composer might as well use two harps to match them. Bowstring instruments are the largest number of instruments in orchestras, and they usually appear in operas in classical times.

2. woodwind group

woodwind is divided into "reed-less instruments", including piccolo and flute; "Single reed instruments" include clarinet and bass clarinet. "Double reed musical instruments" include oboe, English pipe, bassoon and bassoon. Among them, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon often appeared in instrumental music in the 18th century. In the 19th century, it became the leading role in enhancing the dramatic atmosphere.

3, brass tube group

cornet (short horn), horn, trumpet, tenor trombone, bass trombone, tuba (bass horn).

4. percussion group

timpani, bass drum, tambourine, cymbals, triangle bell, tambourine, paizhong, gong, xylophone, Zhong Qin, piano, sleigh bell, castanet, mallet, ratchet, cowbell, cuckoo flute, box bang, music whip, etc.

percussion instruments can be divided into tonality and atonality, and many instruments with effects are not easy to translate into ideal names. Vibrato, marimba, piano and xylophone are all keyboard percussion.