• Music of the 20th century

• Introduction
• In this history of music and arts, every
• period has its own characteristic style
• which is associated with the society from
• which it originated. The period of the 19th
• and 20th century perceived the two world
• wars, and had been a period of many
• changes:
 New Styles Were
• impressionism,
• expressionism,
• neo- classicism,
• avant garde
• music,
• and modern nationalism
 IMPRESSIONISM
• It is a French movement in the late
19th and early 20th century.
• were being replaced in favor of
moods and impressions
• extensive use of colors and effects,
vague melodies, and innovative
chords
• Impressionism was an
attempt not to depict reality,
but merely to suggest it. It
was meant to create an
emotional mood rather than a
specific picture.
• the sounds of different chords
overlapped lightly with each other to
produce new subtle musical colors.
• lack of a tonic-dominant relationship
• moods and textures, harmonic,
vagueness
• whole- tone scale
• impressionist works centered on nature
and its beauty, lightness, and brilliance.