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Impressionism & Expressionism
- All tied to blurring lines of tonality and experimenting with programmatic aspects
- Debussy: impressionistic composer who used modes as well as pentatonic and whole tone to eliminate leading tone
- Strauss: expressionistic composer who used deep stories that looked within
- Psychoanalytical works that were dark, depressing, and reflective
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5A4CkUAazI
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dd0s5uC-EI
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNI9EbZu2gs
Impressionism & Expressionism
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- Intro
- Impressionism
- Known As An Art Movement (Monet)
- Hazy, Looking Different Up Close As They Do Far Away
- Attempted in Music Most Notably by Claude Debussy
- Debussy: Wrote Every Style, Major Composer of 20th Century
- Paris World Fair
- Debussy
- Both a Romantic and 20th Century Composer
- Also Interested in Evening the Tonal Playing Field
- Did It Through Unique Scales Influenced by Far East
- Whole Tone, Pentatonic, Octatonic
- Modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phyrigian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian
- What Does This Do? Obscures the Tonic, Makes It Hazy
- Example
- Expressionism
- Really Heavy Stuff
- Schoenberg, Berg (Wozzeck)
- Example
- Richard Strauss
- Wagner Continued Tradition to Huge Romantic Levels
- Strauss Took It and Ran Into Psychoanalytical Analysis
- Salome and Elektra
- Meant to Express the Subconscious
- Major Dissonance
- Salome Dances with the Head of John the Baptist Before She Gets Killed
- Very Programmatic
- Lush Orchestration, Timbres
- Music to Make You Think, Feel and Express
- Example: Final Scene of Salome
- Review





























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