EXPRESSIONI

STIC
MUSIC

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Expressionistic music goes

hand in hand with painting in
that, both tend to ignore or
cover up rational structure
relationships.

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Stravinskys musical score of Le

Sacre du Printemps, filled with
strange colors, disorted lines of
sound, superimposed rhythms,
and bursts of cacophony, was
first heard in 1913.

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Using polyrhythms, polytonal

harmony, and unhackneyed
instrumental combinations, it
seemed defiantly indifferent to
tradition and heritage.

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After fifty years, it no longer

shocks people. Indeed, it will
probably remain as one of the
masterpieces of the twentieth
century.

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Arnold Schoenberg
-was a Jewish
Austrian composer,
music theorist, and
painter. He is closely
associated with
musical
expressionism.

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Richard Strauss
-was a leading
German composer of
the
late Romantic and
early modern eras.
He is one of the
important precursors
of expressionism.

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Paul Hindemith
-was a
German composer,
violist, violinist, teacher
and conductor. His
early works are in late
romantic idiom and he
later produced
expressionist works.

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Terminologies:
Polyrhythm- a rhythm that makes

use of two or more different

rhythms simultaneously.
Polytonal harmony- the musical
use of more than one key
simultaneously.

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