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    This document discusses modernism between the World Wars, focusing on Erik Satie, Les Six, and Igor Stravinsky. It provides details on Satie's clear, sparse musical style and experimental works. It describes Les Six as influenced by Satie and sharing a rejection of impressionism while believing in tonality. Finally, it outlines Stravinsky's neoclassical works from 1919-1951 that were influenced by French aesthetics but incorporated his own rhythmic and scoring styles.

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    Chapter 23: Modernism and

    the Period Between the Neoclassicism

    World Wars
    Neoclassicism
    Erik Satie (1866-
    1925)

    Clear, sparse textures


    Music is often light and clear
    Simple melodic and rhythmic
    design
    Clear and sparse textures
    Diatonic harmony

    Humor, satire

    Experimental
    Erik Satie (1866-
    1925)

    Trois morceaux en forme de poire(Three


    Pieces in the Form of a Pear)

    Sonatine bureaucratique
    Bureaucraticsonatina

    Prludes flasques (pour un chien)Flabby


    Preludes (For a Dog)

    Embryons desschs(Desiccated or
    Dehydrated Embryos)

    Portrait by Ramon Casas (1891)


    Parade (1917)
    Scenario by Jean Cocteau
    Choreography by Lonide Massine
    Scenery and costumes by Pablo Picasso
    Music by Satie
    Les Six
    Influenced by Satie and Jean
    Cocteau (1889-1963)

    Shared rejection of
    impressionism and
    expressionism, strong belief in
    tonality

    Louis Durey (1888-1979)

    Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)

    Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

    Germaine Tailleferre (1892-


    1983)

    Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

    Georges Auric (1899-1983)


    Stravinsky

    Influenced by French neoclassic


    musical aesthetics; incorporated his
    own percussive scoring,
    dissonances, irregular rhythms,
    ostinatos

    Pulcinella (1919)
    Octet for Winds (1923)
    Les Noces (The wedding, 1923)
    Le Baiser de la fe (The fairys
    kiss, 1928)
    Oedipus Rex (1927)
    Symphony of Psalms (1930)
    Symphony in C (1940)
    The Rakes Progress (1951)
    Pulcinella (1920)

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