Timeline #5 Post-Romanticism

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    Composer - Gustav Mahler

    Mahler was a maximalist composer
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    Composer - Claude Debussy

    Debussy was mainly an impressionist composer
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    Composer - Richard Strauss

    Strauss was a maximalist composer
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    Composer - Arnold Schoenberg

    Schoenberg was mainly an expressionist composer.
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    Composer - Maurice Ravel

    Ravel was mainly an impressionist composer
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    Impressionism

    Impressionism is based on abstract ideas and moods. It uses dissonances as well as unresolved 7ths and 9th chords.
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    Maximalism

    Maximalism is based on thick textures and extremes in music. This includes heavy chromaticism and very large performance groups.
  • Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    This is the first modern orchestral work created by Debussy. Is mainly a tone poem.
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    Expressionsim

    Expressionism is mainly atonal and does not follow main chord progression rules.
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    World War I

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