MUSG 06109 Lecture 9: lecture 9.3
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Impressionism was a 19th-century artistic movement that began as a loose association of. Paris-based painters whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the impressionist movement is derived from the title of an 1872 painting of claude monet, impression, sunrise. Impressionism in music is not like the other periods of western musical history you have studied thus far because impressionism in music is not so much a formal period of music as it is a trend. The reasons for this are as follows: 1. The time period of musical impressionism (1875-1925) overlaps those of two other clearly defined periods: the romantic period (1820-1900) and the modern period (1900-1960): 2. In the other periods of western musical history, nearly all the composers conformed to and/or contributed to the musical changes and developments that took place during their periods.
