Latest music news, comment, reviews and analysis from the Guardian. Distorting images depict the inner, psychological, subjective world of the artist. Characteristics of expressionism in music: * episodic, fragmentary form and structure * abrupt musical language * clashing dissonances * interest in common man * tonality, triadic harmony, and consonance vs. Dissonance are not valid anymore.

• • • 20th-century classical music describes orchestral works, chamber music, solo instrumental works (including keyboard music), electronic music, choral music, songs, operas, ballets, concertos, symphonies, and related forms, as well as fantasies, rhapsodies, fugues, passacaglias and chaconnes, variations, oratorios, cantatas, suites, improvisational and newly developed formal concepts such as variable and mobile forms, that have been written and performed since 1900. This era was without a dominant style and composers have created highly diverse kinds of music.,,,,, and, later, were all important movements.,, and were all developed during this period. Was an important influence on many composers in this period. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] At the turn of the century, music was characteristically late in style. Composers such as, and were pushing the bounds of. At the same time, the movement, spearheaded by, was being developed in France.

Debussy in fact loathed the term Impressionism: 'I am trying to do 'something different—in a way realities—what the imbeciles call 'impressionism' is a term which is as poorly used as possible, particularly by art critics' (, 419). 's music, also often labelled as impressionist, explores music in many styles not always related to it (see the discussion on Neoclassicism, below). Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 Many composers reacted to the Post-Romantic and Impressionist styles and moved in quite different directions. Download Gtk For Windows.