MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Second Viennese School, Anton Webern, Atonality
21 Mar 2013
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Expressionism is a style of art, music & theatre, primarily popular in germany & scandinavia between 1880-1925. Often stresses intense, subjective emotion, isolation, madness or some intense and/or derange psychological state stylistic reaction against pleasant subjects & soft pastel colours of impressionism. Use bright, clashing colours infused with darkness colours that are wrong . Expressionist painters to know ernest ludwig kirchner (german); edvard munch (norwegian) Expressionist composers to know the second viennese school (arnold schoenberg, anton took form of social commentary & protest. Webern, alban berg: not a formal school group of composers who worked for each other, closely associated but developed different compositional styles webern = abstract; Berg = romantic; schoenberg = somewhere in the middle term expressionism only applies to music of these composers created prior to 1920. Jewish instructors were to be fired (he was jewish: emigrated to united states in 1933 when nazis ascended to power music banned by.
