Musical styles impressionism

* replaced in favor of moods and impressions

* there was an extensive use of different timbres (tone color or tone quality) and effects, vague
melodies, and innovative chords and progressions leading to mild dissonances through orchestration,
texture, or harmonic usage.

* sublime moods and melodic suggestions replaced highly expressive program music, or music with
preconceived imagery

* came new combinations of extended chords and harmonies, whole tone, chromatic, and pentatonic
scales.

* was an attempt to suggest reality not depict i

* it was meant to create an emotional mood rather than a specific picture

* in terms of imagery, impressionistic forms were transluceny and hazy, as if trying to see through a rain-
drenched window

* sounds of different chords overlapped lightly with each other to produce new subtle musical colors.

* chords did not have a definite order and sense of clear resolution

* other features include lack of a tonic dominant relationship which gives the feeling of finality to a
piece, moods and textures, harmonic vagueness about the structure of certain chords, and use of whole
scale tones.