1. General Music
Day Twenty Five

2. Bell Work How To Always LABEL you bell work with the date.
You may use the same page for several of your bell works.
ALWAYS use at least THREE complete sentences to answer the question.
Save your bell work for bell work check in’s.
If you miss class, you may go onto Mrs V’s website to get the missed bell work question. It is YOUR responsibility to get the bell work completed.

3. Bell Work #25
Music is important in all cultures. Describe three ways your family enjoys music.
Use three complete sentences!

4. Planner
Homework: No Homework

5. Today I will learn:
I will learn about Debussy and Vaughn Williams.

6. Claude Debussy
While not always appreciated during his lifetime, he has since been recognized as one of the key composers to herald the new era of 20th century music.

7. Paris Conservatory of Music
Debussy was born near _____ in ____.
His __________ paid for him to have piano lessons.
By the age of 10 he was accepted into the ______________________.
He had conflict with teachers over his unusual style of musical composition.
1862
Paris
Godmother
Paris Conservatory of Music

8. One of his teachers once asked him which rules of harmony was he following.
“_________,” was his only reply.
He used __________ combinations of instruments, not resolving dissonant chords or not sticking to accepted forms.
His relatively small output of music
includes orchestral, instrumental and vocal music and even one opera.
My own
unorthodox

9. His music is often given the label ____________ for its similarity to the style of painting by that name that was popular at the time.
Debussy’s creative genius seemed to go hand-in-hand with personal crises.
He went through periods of _________ during which he was unable to compose at all.
Impressionism
depression

10. individualistic
Debussy had an ___________ disposition that enabled him to shrug off the rules and traditions of the past to create a truly unique style of music.
Debussy at the piano, in front of the composer Ernest Chausson, 1893

11. Fast Facts: Name: Achille-Claude Debussy Dates: 1862-1918
Country of birth: France
Historical Era: Early 20th century
Contemporary Composers: Ravel, Stravinsky, Schoenberg
Contemporary Artists: Monet, Renoir, Picasso
Other People/Events: Edison, Einstein, Hitler, World War 1, invention of the first automobile

12. Fun Fact:
Debussy was quite a class clown. One day his harmony teacher was unexpectedly absent so he took it upon himself to take the class. He was in the process of teaching the most outrageous sounding chords and melodies (which he knew his teacher would be horrified by) when another lecturer walked past and threw him out!

13. “Nocturnes Festival” Composer: Debussy
Historical Era: Early 20th Century
Type of composition: Instrumental Genre: Nocturnes
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14. Ralph Vaughan Williams
In the early years of the 20th century, a young English composer by the
name of Ralph Vaughan Williams took to his bicycle and traveled around the rural countryside of England.

15. This contributed greatly to the development of a truly ______
Williams wanted to find and preserve ______________ which was fast disappearing from oral tradition.
This contributed greatly to the development of a truly ______
style of music.
English folk music
English
A statue of Ralph Vaughan Williams in Dorking.

16. 1872 Vaughan Williams was born into a wealthy English family in ____.
He was the great nephew of ____________ the author of the theory of evolution.
He was related to the renowned __________ family, makers of fine china.
1872
Charles Darwin
Wedgwood

17. All over the world, composers were seeking to express their _____________ through a unique voice.
A Hungarian composer by the name of
__________ was recording and collecting the folk music from his native countrymen and using it in his compositions.
In America, ____________ also found great success in developing a unique style using folk music.
national pride
Bela Bartok
Aaron Copland

18. The influence of folk music on Vaughan Williams was immediately recognizable in the music he wrote and eventually became synonymous with ____________.
Even though his use of folk song was quite a new development, most of his music was written in ______________ such as symphonies (he wrote 9), chamber music, concertos, operas, and choral music.
English music
traditional forms

19. Vaughan Williams suffered hearing damage serving in ____________ and gradually became deaf.
He maintained the reputation of a true ______________. He was generous with his time, money and skills, and was thoughtful and patriotic.
His death at the age of ___ was mourned by an entire nation.
World War 1
British gentleman 85

20. Fast Facts: Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams Dates: 1872-1958
Country of birth: England
Historical Era: 20th century
Contemporary Composers: Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Copland
Contemporary Artists: Renoir, Kandinsky, Picasso
Other People/Events: Einstein, World War 1,
World War 11, Queen Elizabeth 11, invention of
automobile, the first crossing of the English channel in an airplane, the sinking of the Titanic

21. Fun Fact: During World War 1, Vaughan Williams was walking
along the cliffs of Dover in England, minding his
own business when a sudden burst of inspiration
gripped him. He paused to sit and write down a
tune that had just come to him. Unbeknown to
him, a group of British soldiers were performing
training maneuvers nearby and Vaughan Williams
was promptly arrested and accused of spying and
writing coded messages for the enemy. It took
some swift talking, but eventually the officer was
convinced and let him go.

22. “Dona Nobis Pacem” Composer: Vaughn Williams
Historical Era: 20th Century
Type of composition: Instrumental and Vocal
Genre: Chorus
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23. Exit Ticket
Tell me in two complete sentences what evidence there was that makes you think that Tchaikovsky and Debussy suffered from mental health issues.

24. Exit Ticket Use complete sentences.
Vaughn Williams wrote songs that were variations of traditional English folk songs. Name a traditional song from America.