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Music of The 20TH Century
Music of The 20TH Century
CENTURY
IMPRESSIONISM, EXPRESSIONISM AND AVANT GARDE
IMPRESSIONISM
• It is a French movement in the late 19th and 20th century
• Immediate or impression of an object
• Illusion of light
• Sound of different chords overlapped lightly with each
other to produce new musical color
MUSICIANS OF IMPRESSIONISM
• CLAUDY DE BUSSY
• MAURICE RAVEL
• ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
CLAUDE DE BUSSY (1862-1918)
• ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
• IGOR STRAVINSKY
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
• Austrian composer and painter, associated with
the expressionist movement in German poetry and art,
and leader of the Second Viennese School.
• an important music theorist, and an influential teacher of
composition
• proponent of twelve-tone period
IGOR STRAVINSKY