Name: 印象派 - OpenBUCS (Impressionism - OpenBUCS)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:54:42.000Z
Duration: 15 min 17 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

Alright at the beginning of the Twentieth Century

程度の副詞

we have a really significant movement in both the visual arts

and in music called Impressionism. Many people know impressionist visual art

because they've seen all those paintings by Monet that fill up our galleries all

and are on posters in your houses and wherever.

And here's a painting from Monet. This is one of his impression paintings from

sort of like Baroque, it was not a name that was supposed to be

that Monet and his contemporaries came up with

This is a big exhibit in Paris every year and they were rejected.

The the people who are running the show just thought they were just too

we're not going to accept these paintings and the

the critics were talking about these paintings

and they picked up on the name "impresson" which was in the name of one

and used that as a negative term to describe this art that they thought wasn't

good. So what did they not like about it? Well, you know,

we're looking at people who are used to having paintings that are very clearly

edges, we know that that's the end of something. The colors are

in rather broad sorts of swaths. So they had things they were used to seeing.

So here comes Monet and his friends and they're giving us paintings

that are little dabs of color. If you look at one of these paintings really closely

you'll sometimes actually see physical space between colors. So it's not like

Well, one of the things that they were really interested in was

in trying to show how things looked at different times of day and in different

Now up until this point in time they couldn't do that.

If you were an artist you had to go out into the field, you could do your sketch

chalks or whatever but then you would have to go back to the studio,

then you would be able to paint in the studio. So you'd have to try to remember

Thanks to an American who invented oil paints in tubes,

painters could now take their whole little box of paints out into the world,

set up their easel in the park or on the street or wherever they wanted to

look at what they're looking at and paint it as it is,

in the natural light. So this was a big deal, very big deal.

So they were trying to make it look like it was in natural light, make it not

in the studio. So, the edges are blurred,

the colors keep kind of changing, you don't see solid blocks of color generally

So how does that work out in music? Interestingly it works out a lot the same way.

So what composers tried to do was to create that same sort of sense of

that we see in an impressionist painting. So

So, we've seen how the painter creates ambiguity, How's the composer going to create the same thing?

So I'm going to use my little glockenspiel here to illustrate a couple of things for you.

So, one of the ways that a composer can create ambiguity

As we know those send us somewhere. So there are a couple of different ways that a

One of those is a new type of scale that we've not talked about before called the

tone scale. Remember that major and minor scales have half steps and whole steps so

not whole tone, they are both  half and whole. So, a whole tone scale

has no half steps. Let's listen just to remind ourselves, this is what a major scale

So that's our combination of half steps and whole steps. I want to do a

Now, if you were keeping an eye on the keyboard, you would have seen that I got off

would have been the white keys so that was a difference between scales.

Might also have noticed that there were only seven notes in that scale instead

of eight. When you take those two  half steps and make them one, then

you've lost a pitch so it's a seven tone scale and

it has no half-step so we don't have any places where we can naturally diverge and

It leaves us a lot of options about directions that we can move. Another way

Remember we haven't even talked about those since about 1600 when we went to

So those are those old scale type systems that we used in Gregorian

So, basically with a mode, if you start on any white note on this keyboard,

then... and you stay on them, then you get a particular mode. So

let's just take this major scale first. (plays scale)

Different sets of half steps and whole steps.