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    Impressionism vs Expressionism

    Classical Music of the 20th Century

    Impressionism

    Impressionism

    Claude Monet - Soleil levant

    Claude Monet - Water Lilies

    Impressionism
    Goal of Impressionism
    Movement
    NOT Capturing the subject

    Impressionism
    Musical Example:
    La Mer mov. II - Claude Debussy

    Impressionism
    The Great Impressionist of Music

    Claude Debussy
    1862-1918

    Impressionism
    The Great Impressionist of Music

    Maurice Ravel
    1875-1937

    Impressionism
    Musical Example:
    La cathedrale engloutie - Debussy
    The Sunken Cathedral

    Impressionism
    Musical Characteristics
    Atmospheric
    Non-emotional (Opposite of Romantic music)
    Explored other scales (e.g. whole tone)

    Expressionism

    Expressionism

    Germany
    France

    The Scream Munch

    Sunflowers Van Gogh

    Expressionism
    Goals of Expressionism

    Capture being alive


    Express emotional experience not
    physical reality
    Expressionism also in dance, architecture,
    and movies

    Expressionism
    Musical Example:
    Pierrot Lunaire - Schoenberg

    Expressionism
    Notable Composer:
    Arnold Schoenberg
    1874 - 1951
    Students:
    Alban Berg
    Anton Webern

    Expressionism
    Musical Example:
    Five Pieces for Orchestra Schoenberg

    Expressionism
    Musical Characteristics:
    Atonal (no key center)
    Dissonance (represents inner turmoil)
    Primal

    Impressionism

    -Tonal
    -Non-emotional
    -Color

    Expressionism

    -Non Traditional
    harmony
    -New Sounds

    -Atonal
    -Dissonant
    -Inner emotions

    Other 20th Century


    Classical Musical Styles

    Post Romantic/Nationalism - Mahler, Sibelius


    Free Dissonance - Ives
    12 Tone - Schoenberg, Berg, Webern
    Neoclassicism - Stravinsky, Hindemeth, Ravel
    Minimalism - Glass, Reich, Le Monte Young
    Post Modernism/Electronic - Cage
    Jazz Influenced - Gershwin, Copland, Milhaud

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