IMPRESSIONISM (1870 - 1920)
20th century
International problems due to the social and political situation
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Second War World (1942-1945)
First World War (1914-1918)
Music
Composers are influenced by the political situation
Atonalty: Strange music
Timbre: New electronic instruments created
Melody: Dissonances, unexpected
Rhythm: Complex and irregular
Dissonances and noises
Strange music, abstract melodies
New instruments (internorm, theremin)
Diversity of music: -ism
Expresionism and dodecaphonism
Artist shows sensibility and their vision of the world
Neoclasicism (1920 - 1940)
Atonalism (Uses the chromatic scale, 12 sounds)
Edgar Varese - Ionisation
John Cage - In a landscape / 4:33
Sconbeig - Suite piano
Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez
Composers try to find the classicsm again
Stravinsky - L'ocell de foc
Synesthesia
When you hear music, but you see shapes and colours
Electronic music
New sound and effects (strom, machinery, wind)
Appears due to development of tecnology
In the second part of the 20th century
Examples
Eurythmies - Seet Dreams
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Spain
Tino Casal - Eloise
Fangoria (Alaska) - A quien le importa
Mecano - Hoy no me puedo levantar
OBK - Historias de amor
Introduction
Artists show the world as they see it
monet (the rising sun)
Composers want to create sensations
Paul Dukas - El aprendiz del brujo
Erik Saite - La gymnopedie
Ravel - El bolero
Manuel de falla - El amor brujo
Debussy - Preludi a la siesta de un fauno
Suite Iberia - Albeniz