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These chords were often shifted parallel. In the melodic field the whole tone scale, the pentatonic and church tonal turns were used. The melodics were characterized by their circular melodic movements. The timbre became the stylistic device of Impressionism instead of concise themes or other traditional forms. [16] [better source needed]
The composer Olivier Messiaen called the whole-tone scale his first mode of limited transposition. The composer and music theorist George Perle calls the whole-tone scale interval cycle 2, or C2. Since there are only two possible whole-tone-scale positions (that is, the whole-tone scale can be transposed only once), it is either C2 0 or C2 1 .
This is a list of notable musical works which use the whole tone scale. Béla Bartók. Cantata Profana, b. 186–187 [1] Concerto for Orchestra, fifth movement, b. 484 [2] String Quartet No. 1, end of movement 3 [3] String Quartet No. 4, first movement, b. 157–160 [4]
Albert Roussel. Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ ʃaʁl pɔl maʁi ʁusɛl]; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer.He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period.
Debussy c. 1900 by Atelier Nadar (Achille) Claude Debussy [n 1] was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at ...
Composers began exploring different, looser approaches to tonality (the key-centered-ness of a piece of music). During this era, French composers such as Debussy and Ravel developed a style called Impressionism, which emphasized tone "colours", and which used chords purely for their sound (as opposed to for their harmonic role).
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (UK: / ˈ m ɛ s i æ̃ /, [1] US: / m ɛ ˈ s j æ̃, m eɪ ˈ s j æ̃, m ɛ ˈ s j ɒ̃ /; [2] [3] [4] French: [ɔlivje øʒɛn pʁɔspɛʁ ʃaʁl mɛsjɑ̃]; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist.
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