Music 1710F/G Lecture Notes - Canadian Art, Music Of Canada, Scherzo
6 Feb 2013
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Like romanticism and other artistic trends, it is the dominant trend. Many of these trends exist in some other form throughout history. Music in the 20th century formalism, or structuralism, was established as the predominant aesthetic of the twentieth century, though it, too, had its detractors (22). Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc. , . Stravinsky, octet for wind instruments (1923) marked a turning point in his musical style. Music early in his life eg. firebird, rite of spring: chromaticism, full rhythms. However, he is referring to music in the 1920s: considered, modern music. Modernism: content = form, style etc. character, like a scherzo, yet it is meant to express a particular image. Nothing outside music is meant to be expressed.
