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What characterizes impressionism in music?
Which of the following composers is associated with the impressionist movement?
What is a defining feature of expressionism in music?
Neo-classicism is best described as:
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Which of the following statements accurately describes avant garde music?
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What does impressionism lack that is typically found in classical music?
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Which aspect of neo-classicism serves as a moderating influence?
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How does expressionism differ from impressionism in musical expression?
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Study Notes
Overview of 20th Century Musical Styles
- Emergence of distinct musical styles reflecting a departure from traditional classical music.
- Key styles include impressionism, expressionism, neo-classicism, avant-garde music, and modern nationalism.
Impressionism
- French movement prevalent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Emphasizes moods and impressions over the dramatic emotionalism of the Romantic Period.
- Utilizes extensive colors, vague melodies, and innovative chords leading to mild dissonances.
- Features new combinations of extended chords, whole tone, chromatic scales, and pentatonic scales.
- Focuses on suggesting emotional moods rather than depicting reality.
- Characterized by overlapping sounds of different chords that create subtle musical colors.
- Lacks a definitive order or clear resolution typical in traditional music, promoting harmonic vagueness.
Impressionism Composers
- Notable composers include Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Expressionism
- Aims to reveal the composer’s inner thoughts and emotions rather than environmental impressions.
- Utilizes atonality and the twelve-tone scale, rejecting stable and conventional harmonies.
- Serves as a medium for expressing intense emotions like anxiety, rage, and alienation.
Neo-Classical Music
- Acts as a moderating force between the Romantic era's emotional extremes and expressionism’s volatility.
- Represents a partial return to Classical writing styles, emphasizing tightly-knit forms.
- Combines tonal harmonies with slight dissonances, adopting a modern use of the seven-note diatonic scale.
Neo-Classical Composers
- Noteworthy composers include Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok.
Avant-Garde Music
- Closely linked to electronic music, focusing on the dimensions of sound in space.
- Introduces a new approach to musical mobility, allowing for varied orders of note groups to alter musical continuity.
- Emphasizes unconventional methods of sound and form, breaking away from traditional rules of harmony, melody, and rhythm.
- The avant-garde style can be challenging for listeners accustomed to conventional music.
Avant-Garde Composers
- Important figures in avant-garde music include George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, John Cage, and Philip Glass.
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Explore the transformative musical styles that emerged in the early 20th century, including impressionism, expressionism, and avant-garde music. This quiz will help you understand how these styles deviated from classical conventions and their emotional impacts.
