VPMB82H3 Chapter 22: VPMB82 Chapter 22
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Chapter 22 the european mainstream in the early twentieth century. Common challenges modern composers in classical tradition included: Composing work of in high quality that participated in tradition of serious art music. Offering unique style that balanced tradition & novel elements. Music became increasingly diverse in style & approach. Mahler & strauss extended wagnerian harmony to new levels of rhetorical intensity. Studied at the conservatoire in paris at the age of teen. Nadezhda von meck was his patron in the early 1880s. Famous work included piano music prelude to the afternoon of a faun & opera pelleas et. Drew from french tradition a preference for indirect & restrained expression. Found new ideas in russian composers, including balakirev, rimsky-korsakov & musorgsky. Attention is placed in individual images that carry work"s structure and meaning. Create musical images through motives, harmony, exotic scales (whole-tone, octatonic, pentatonic scales), instrumental timbre. Motives do not develop, may repeat with small changes.
