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Post-Romanticism In Music
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Post-Romanticism In Music
Effects & rejection of romantic style, form, philosophy by late 19th & early 20th Cent. composers. Major works, impressionism, atonality, innovations.
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages) |
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1996
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"This paper is a study of the consequences of romanticism in Western music. Much of the work of 19th century composers was influenced by a sweeping desire to express emotion through music, explore varied forms and lengths of composition, and link music to the other arts, especially literature. The romantic movement encouraged composers to find their individual voices, both in the work they wrote and in the way they supported their art. It released music from the formality of classicism and laid the groundwork for many elements that are now established in modern music, from the variable size of the orchestra to the appreciation of the conductor's importance to performance and interpretation. As the century ended, however, composers began to believe that the romantics had fully explored the limits of major-minor tonality. In moving beyond what they saw then as..."More papers on Post-Romanticism In Music:
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