Post-Romanticism (1890-1930)

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    Gustav Mahler

    Austrian orchestral maximalist composer.
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    Claude Debussy

    French composer and influenced other composers. He is the inventor of musical impressionism.
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    Frederick Delius

    English composer who used impressionism
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    Arnold Schoenberg

    created the 12-tone music.
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    Charles Ives

    Innovated Atonality
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    Maurice Ravel

    french composer who was credited the first impressionist piano piece.
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    Ottorino Respighi

    Italian composed who used impressionism
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    Bela Bartok

    Hungarian composer and important ethnomusicologist who incorporated his native folk music to his works
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    Igor Stravinsky

    Russian composer who was one of the most complex composers who went through many phases of his music.
  • Don Juan

    symphonic poem by Richard Strauss.
  • Impresionism

    this musical style was introduced by Debussy in France. It did not follow the traditional rules of music specifically pertaining to chords. all chords were considered equal. The music was still tonal but most of its music elements were vague such as the tempo and time signature. This was due to the frequent changes in tempos and meters.
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    Maximalism

    musical elements are pushed to the extreme.
  • L'apres-midi d'un faune (Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun)

    written by Claude Debussy in 1894. Its a symphonic piece based on a symbolic poem about a half goat half human. Its very vague in its musical elements such as key, tempo and time signature and remains at a soft dynamic.
  • Jeux d'eau

    Written by Ravel and is his first impressionist piano piece.
  • expressioniasm

    all notes are considered equal and tonality was abandoned. melodies were optional and harmonies were extremely hard or impossible to analyze.
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    Neo-Classicism

    the bringing back of the classic ideals in the 18th century but including the modern harmony tonality and timbers.
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    Primitivism

    Western visual art moment that used non-western subjects that was normally folk-like things. Stravinsky demonstrated this style musically with Rite of Spring
  • Das Lied Von Der Erde (song of the Earth)

    Written by Gustav Mahler. based on Chinese six poems
  • Rite of Spring

    Ballet written by Stravinsky. rhythmically forceful and poly-rhythmic. it was considered provocative for that time period. There was a riot during a performance because of members of the audience that were payed to laugh and be disruptive during the performance.
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    WW1

    the first world war
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    Dadaism

    anti-art thinking moment against WW1 questioning the standard of the arts. it pushed for thinking out side the box basically
  • 19th amendment past

    woman's right to vote was given
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    non-tonal

    a style of music that does not have a tonic.
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    Prohibition

    alcohol was made illegal
  • 12-tone tecnique (row)

    created by Schoenberg. it puts the twelve pitches in order then moving them around till a music composition is made. it made some of the most randomly sounding musical pieces ever.