MUS 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Christopher Langton, Deconstruction, Atonality
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Style of radical experimentation lead to a style of writing known as the avant-garde: avant-garde term to describe movements or individuals at the forefront of innovation and experimentation. One of the defining characteristics of the end of the 19th century was the industrialization of the world: electricity changed the face of industry, railroads spanned the continents, rural areas turned into modern nations. With industrialization and revolutionary ideals shaking humanity"s interaction with the world, music began to take new shapes: impressionism, primitivism, expressionism. Impressionism form of music characterized by suggestion and atmosphere: rejects the emotional excesses of the romantic era, strives to create the general sense of a specific atmosphere or idea. Known as the pioneer of the musical impressionist movement. Wrote in a very free-flowing style favoring the timbre about the structured. Primitivism artistic movement that borrows musical ideas or philosophies from prehistoric or otherwise non-western culture. Heavily associated with avant-garde ballet and primitivism in music.
