MUSC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Chromatic Scale, Oboe, Cor Anglais
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Modernism: revolutionary development in the arts: overturned basic rules of artistic production challenged ideas of what art is, disorient the means of representation (picasso and cubism) or not meaning (abstract art) Revolutionary modernist developments in music: weaken sense of key, music without a key; music away from regular meters. Little movements that are different from each other under modernism. Debussy involved with many movements in the art. Debussy connected with impressionism and symbolism: impressionism: connection with natural settings settings that are mysterious. Debussy had close connection with symbolist artists stephane mallarme sonnet in the. Key of x (1887) ~ musical title: symbolist poetry: color and sound of the words are as/more important than the meaning of words; emphasis on ambiguity, debussy"s music shares emphasis on color and ambiguity. Prelude to the afternoon of a faun (1894) Inspired by mallarme"s poem the afternoon of a faun (1876)
