Maurice Ravel was a contemporary of Claude Debussy, whose music we heard in class. He lived from 1875-1937, was French and wrote for many genres of music. This piece is one for solo violin, the name of the piece, "Tzigane" meaning "gypsy." Listen and anwer the following questions.
http://www.rhapsody.com/mauriceravel scroll down to the piece entitled "Tzigane"
Describe impressionism in this piece - what elements of impressionism discussed in class to you hear?
What is your reaction to this piece based on the elements of impressionism you heard? Does is sound "normal" by today's standards or does it seem avant garde even today?
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the timing is all over the place..no defanate rhythm or consistent melody..weird notes too. The range is all over the place. Does not sound normal even by today's standards. Its weird.
It has some strange timings, and while you can find the beat in it, there is a lot of syncopation and it would be very easy to lose the beat. Also, the melodies are weird. It definitely doesn't sound normal.
I could make up a answer for this blog but it really confuses me. They music seems to be all over the place, it sounds to me more like someone messing around with the violin more than anything. I can't really understand anything about it.
I do know that it does not sound normal to me.
Well it definitely has a weird beat...and the melody is not really consistent and doesn't repeat itself much where as other genres seem to be more repetitive and consistent. Some times it also just sounded noisy like wrong notes were being hit.
I think that it would definitely be considered normal today because we think that everything weird and "original" is normal, however, I wouldn't have thought that it was from so long ago cause it seems very progressive.
I loved it. Probably cause I love the violin. I think I just love stringed intruments in general. Anyway, the meter was definately difficult to follow. It seemed almost inexistent. Like gregorian chant. The melody just did whatever it wanted. There were some inharmonic notes played. Although i said I loved it.... It kinda got annoying to me, cause it felt like random bowing of the strings in the middle. Like something I could have done. It sounded kind of normal. Mayber if it were used in a musical or cartoon movie at some point.
The rhythm is not is not consistant and there is no definate melody.
i think this piece sounds very normal and i quite like it
The piece is Impressionist for many reasons. Generally, I feel it's incomplete. Not ever moment must be filled with something. I think that the gaps can be filled by the listener. There is no constant tempo. There is also no repition. There is not a specific melody that shows up over and over again. I really enjoy Impressionist music so I like this piece. I think it could be considered normal because modern music doesn't have to play by the rules.
i. This has uncommon scales in it which is an element of impressionism. It uses more dissonance too. Also its sounds terrible which is an element of impressionism. (Not really that is just my opinion)
ii. No it does not sound normal by today's standards. It seems as though it has no direction to where it's going and it's unpredictable. The music of today is usually predictable.
1. The timing seems very sparatic and, whenever you want to play play type deal. Hard to find the harmony, great leaps between notes, and a lot of dissonance also attribute it to the impressionistic era.
2. I think that it verges on an Indian feel, which I don't mind. It does however requireone to think and listen for the particular parts. I think it's a little too sparatic for my taste, and the taste of modern society, I would not call it normal in other words! =D
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