Expressionism

Expressionism
Expressionism style of music
Expressionism
 Expressionism style of music
The term expressionism "was probably first applied to music in
1918, especially to Schoenberg", because like the painter Wassily
Kandinsky he avoided "traditional forms of beauty" to convey
powerful feelings in his music
Expressionism
 Expressionism style of music
Expressionist music often features a high level of dissonance,
extreme contrasts of dynamics, constant changing of textures,
"distorted" melodies and harmonies, and angular melodies with
wide leaps.
Expressionism
Arnold Schoenberg

the key figure in the

Expressionist
movement.
 Arnold Schoenberg

The term expressionism "was

first applied to music in 1918,
especially to Schoenberg", he
avoided "traditional forms of
beauty" to convey powerful
feelings in his music.
 Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg (b. 1874–

d. 1951) gained fame as a
musical innovator and pioneer
of modernism in 20th-century
Western music,
 Arnold Schoenberg

Mentored by the great Gustav Mahler

between 1909 and 1911. Schoenberg
spent most of his life orchestrating
operas and teaching.
 Arnold Schoenberg
Born: September 13, 1874,
Leopoldstadt, Vienna,
Austria

Died: July 13, 1951, Los

Angeles, California,
United States
Arnold Schoenberg
 Pierrot Lunaire

 Peripetie

Verklärte nacht
 A Survivor from Warsaw
Op. 46

 Chamber Symphony No. 1,

Op .9
Pierrot Lunaire
Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus
Albert Girauds "Pierrot lunaire
("Three times Seven Poems from
Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot lunaire'"),
commonly known simply as Pierrot
lunaire, Op. 21 ("Moonstruck
Pierrot" or "Pierrot in the
Moonlight"), is a melodrama by
Arnold Schoenberg.
 Peripetie
It has an unusual structure: Schoenberg
didn't use a conventional structure (there
isn't an obvious melody). He uses melody
fragments and complicated, fragmented
rhythms. Each fragment is based on a
hexachord (a group of 6 notes from the 12
different semitones).
 Verklärte nacht
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night),
Op. 4, is a string sextet in one movement
composed by Arnold Schoenberg in
1899. Composed in just three weeks, it is
considered his earliest important work.[1]
It was inspired by Richard Dehmel's
poem of the same name, combined with
the influence of Schoenberg's strong
feelings upon meeting the sister of his
teacher, Alexander von Zemlinsky (1877–
1923), whom he married in 1901.
A Survivor from Warsaw
Op. 46

A Survivor From Warsaw” is a

memorial to the victims of the
Holocaust, written within two
years after the Nazi regime's
downfall. It is striking in its
originality for several reasons,
firstly being its orchestration. It
is scored for narrator, men's
chorus and orchestra.