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    Expressionism was a modernist movement originating in Germany in the early 20th century that extended across many art forms. In music, expressionism uses techniques like atonality, dissonance, and angular melodies to convey emotions in an exaggerated way. Arnold Schoenberg was a pioneering expressionist composer who developed the twelve-tone technique. His famous work Pierrot Lunaire uses speech, instruments, and voice to vividly portray poems. Igor Stravinsky also represented modern compositional styles with works like The Rite of Spring that differed from Schoenberg's serialism.

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    Expressionism was a modernist movement originating in Germany in the early 20th century that extended across many art forms. In music, expressionism uses techniques like atonality, dissonance, and angular melodies to convey emotions in an exaggerated way. Arnold Schoenberg was a pioneering expressionist composer who developed the twelve-tone technique. His famous work Pierrot Lunaire uses speech, instruments, and voice to vividly portray poems. Igor Stravinsky also represented modern compositional styles with works like The Rite of Spring that differed from Schoenberg's serialism.

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    Expressionism was a modernist movement originating in Germany in the early 20th century that extended across many art forms. In music, expressionism uses techniques like atonality, dissonance, and angular melodies to convey emotions in an exaggerated way. Arnold Schoenberg was a pioneering expressionist composer who developed the twelve-tone technique. His famous work Pierrot Lunaire uses speech, instruments, and voice to vividly portray poems. Igor Stravinsky also represented modern compositional styles with works like The Rite of Spring that differed from Schoenberg's serialism.

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    Expressionism
    E
    X
    Introduction
    Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting,
    P originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.
    R
    E Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World
    S War. It remained popular during theWeimar Republic, particularly in Berlin.
    S The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist
    I architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music.
    O In Music, expressionism conveys true emotions in exaggeration through the
    N application of atonality and dissonance of the lack of agreement and
    I consistency in music.
    S
    M
    E
    X
    P
    Characteristics of
    R
    E 1. Expressionism
    High Degree of Dissonance
    S
    S 2. Extreme contrast of dynamics
    I 3. Constant changing of texture
    O
    N
    4. Distorted melodies and harmonies
    I 5. Angular melodies with wide leaps
    S
    M
    E
    X Composer
    P
    Born: September 13,1874 Vienna Austria
    R
    Died: July 132, 1951
    E
    S
    He taught himself music theory but took
    S
    lessons in counterpoint.
    I
    O
    1898 – converted to Christianity in the
    N
    Lutheran church.
    I
    1901 – he married Mathilde Zemlinsky
    S
    1908 – His wife left him for several months
    M
    for a young Austrian painter, Richard Gersti.
    Pierrot Lunaire, Op.21 of 1912
    E
    X Development of Twelve-tone
    P
    R
    E
    method
    The basic set for Schoenberg’s
    S Wind Quintet (1924) is E♭–G–
    S
    I A–B–C♯–C–B♭–D–E–F♯–A♭–F;
    O for his String Quartet No. 4
    N (1936) it is D–C♯–A–B♭–F–E♭–
    I
    E–C–A♭–G–F♯–B.
    S
    M
    E
    X Important things in constructing
    P
    R
    twelve=tone technique
    E The basic premises of twelve-tone
    S music are as follows:
    S
    •All twelve notes of the chromatic
    I
    O scale must occur.
    N •No note can be repeated in the series
    I until the other 11 notes of the
    S
    M chromatic scale have occurred
    (exceptions include direct repetition of
    a note, trills, and tremolos)
    E
    X Pierrot Lunaire
    P
    R Pierrot Lunaire is a song cycle. It is written in
    E three parts with each part containing seven
    S
    S songs.
    I The piece on our playlist, “Madonna,” is song
    O number 6 from Part One.
    N
    I
    It was composed during Schoenberg’s second
    S period after the composer had turned to
    M atonality but before he developed his twelve-
    tone method. 
    E
    X Structure of Pierrot Lunaire
    P
    “Pierrot Lunaire” consists of three groups of seven poems.
    R
    E In the first group,
    S Pierrot sings of love, sex and religion; in the second, of
    S violence, crime, and blasphemy; and in the third of his
    I return home to Bergamo, with his past haunting him.
    O
    N
    I
    S
    M
    E
    X Igor Stravinsky
    P
    R  He and Schoenberg represent two major streams of
    E compositional thought in the modern era: Schoenberg’s
    S twelve-tone atonality on the one hand and Stravinsky’s
    S neo-classicism (the style in which he wrote a good deal of
    I
    his music, though not Rite of Spring) on the other.
    O
    N
    I It is interesting to note that both men, as a result of
    S upheaval in Europe and Russia, not only made the United
    M States their home but lived a short distance from each
    other in Los Angeles for years.
    E
    X Igor Stravinsky
    P
    R Life in Switzerland
    E
    S Stravinsky became an overnight sensation following the
    S success of The Firebird’s premiere in Paris on 25 June
    I
    1910.
    O
    N The composer had travelled from his estate in Ustilug,
    I Ukraine, to Paris in early June to attend the final
    S rehearsals and the premiere of The Firebird.
    M
    Thank You
    Troubadour The History
    and of Do-Re-
    Trouveres Mi
    GUIDO D’ AREZZO –
    - Benedictine monk.
    Travelling
    Latin hymn = Ut
    performers. Queant Laxis.
    https://www.youtube.c
    om/watch?
    v=po4noXwm4x0&t=2s

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