AER : % The expressionist movement developed in both art and music and focused on \ | expressing one’s emotions like angst. ~ despair, anger, and grief. Expressionism in music, which crested between the two world wars, gave voice to the anxieties, inner terrors, and cynicism of human life in the 20th century.Compositions in the expressionist style tend to make us feel a little uncomfortable at times. Music is atonal (no sense of key) and each musical piece usually confines itself to express only intense emotions. Composers made full use of an instrument's range and timbre is felt to be as important as melody Expressionism is mainly a German/Austrian affair from 1905 to 1925. It is closely linked to the second Viennese school in Schonberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, atonality. It was the follow-up to late romantic music.es Ta eee v7 ee Uy is LYRHYTHM MELODY + Angular melodies Subtle and irregular * Reduced to short motives + UnrecognizableConstantly changing (simple | melodic line and complex itrapuntal). + Atonal- it avoids the normal hierarchy of keys and chords, giving each of the 12 semitones equal importance. + High level of dissonance + Distorted Harmonie:DYNAMICS FORM Tend to be subtle, varied, Polyphonic (interweaving of and notated specifically. melodic lines).IMPRESSIONISM . ono . Beginning of the 20th century. » The term was probably first applied to music in 1918, especially to Schoenberg, because like the painter + Late 19th and early 20th century + A philosophical and aesthetic term Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), he Sunrise” (Monet) avoided traditional forms of beauty to + France convey powerful feelings in his music + More light and sensuous style + Debussy and RavelArnold Franz Walter Schoenberg was a composer, painter, self-taught musician and leader of Second Viennese School. He was born to a strict Jewish family who moved to Austria from Hungary. Schoenberg already showed great skills in composition at an early age. He began playing the violin and compose: violin duets. He received his elementary instructions from Oskar Adler who taught him harmony and counterpoint, and studied compositions from Alexander Zemlinsky. Most of Schoenberg's life was spent teaching various private institutions and orchestrating operettas. Arnold Schoenberg VW> MUSICAL STYLE < 4. Atonal - there is no feeling of being in any key. 2. Twelve-tone music- the twelve chromatic notes of the Western scale are arranged arbitrarily into “tone row”. In a twelve-tone method each composition is based ora row series, using all twelve notes of the chromatic scale in an order chosen by the composer. Besides being presented in its original form, the row may be inverted, played backward in inversion, or transposed to any scale step. All harmonies and melodies in a composition are derived from this special row to assure unity. 3, Sprechstimme- Style of Vocal performance half way between speech and ‘singing:MUSICAL WOKRS ca 4. Transfigure Night (string sextet) & e [Link] and Melisande e@ [Link] (Expectation) a short opera for only ‘one singer IN 7 [Link] Lunaire (a set of songs ‘sung’ in a way that sounds almost as if their is speaking instead of singing) [Link] and Aron (opera).Claude Debussy Maurice Ravel