MUS 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Atonality
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This style of radical experimentation lead to a style of writing known as the avant-garde. Avant garde- a 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. With industrialization and revolutionary ideals shaking humanity"s interaction with the world music began to take new shapes. Impressionism: a form of music characterized by suggestion and atmosphere. Rejects the emotional excesses of the romantic era. Impressionism strives to create the general sense of a specific atmosphere or idea. Known as the pioneers of the musical impressionist movement. Wrote in a very free-flowing style favoring the timbre above the structured. Primitivism: an artistic movement that borrow musical ideas or philosophies of prehistoric or otherwise non-western culture. Heavily associated with avant-garde ballet and primitivism music. Achieved international claim for his diversity of style. Pushed many boundaries of music into the 20th century.
