Expressionism
Expressionism is the term generally used to describe music composed between the abandonment of tonality at the conclusion of the Romantic period and Arnold Schoenberg's creation of twelve-tone composition.
Expressionistic music has an abrupt musical language, clashing dissonances, abstract procedures, and a great emotional intensity. Tonality, triadic harmony, are not valid in expressionistic music.
Theodor Adorno sees expressionistic music as seeking "the truthfulness of subjective feeling without illusions, disguises or euphemisms". Adorno also describes it as concerned with the unconscious, and states that "the depiction of fear lies at the centre" of expressionist music, with dissonance predominating, so that the "harmonious, affirmative element of art is banished".
Famous composers of expressionistic music are
are Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) and his pupils, Anton Webern (1883–1945) and Alban Berg (1885–1935).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-fyWc6Mpd8
Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Concerto op.42
Expressionism is the term generally used to describe music composed between the abandonment of tonality at the conclusion of the Romantic period and Arnold Schoenberg's creation of twelve-tone composition.
Expressionistic music has an abrupt musical language, clashing dissonances, abstract procedures, and a great emotional intensity. Tonality, triadic harmony, are not valid in expressionistic music.
Theodor Adorno sees expressionistic music as seeking "the truthfulness of subjective feeling without illusions, disguises or euphemisms". Adorno also describes it as concerned with the unconscious, and states that "the depiction of fear lies at the centre" of expressionist music, with dissonance predominating, so that the "harmonious, affirmative element of art is banished".
Famous composers of expressionistic music are
are Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) and his pupils, Anton Webern (1883–1945) and Alban Berg (1885–1935).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-fyWc6Mpd8
Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Concerto op.42