MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Second Viennese School, Wassily Kandinsky, Sprechgesang

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Muar 211 lecture 23 expressionism, copland. Artistic multidisciplinary movement based in germany in the early 20th c: music: schoenberg and his students berg & webern (a. k. a. the second. What french neoclassicism (e. g. , stravinsky) was reacting against. Influenced by freudian psychoanalysis ( sigmund freud): theory of the subconscious , analysis of dreams to gain access to the unconscious mind. Aimed to probe the inner psyche through art. Interested in expressing extreme emotional and psychological states (extreme anxiety, even madness: believed that such extreme states demanded extreme means of expression. Painting (e. g. , kandinsky: abandoned representation, jagged lines and irregular shapes, bold, clashing colors. Music (e. g. , schoenberg: abandoned tonality; composed atonal music, disjunct, chromatic melodies, unusual timbres (e. g. , sprechstimme) and instrument combinations. Specialized in chamber music, orchestral music, song, opera. Voluminous theoretical writings: claimed to be heir to the legacies of both wagner and. Jewish: emigrated to america (la) when the nazis came to power (1933)

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