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  2. Impressionism in music - Wikipedia

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    The most prominent feature in musical Impressionism is the use of "color", or in musical terms, timbre, which can be achieved through orchestration, harmonic usage, texture, etc. [3] Other elements of musical Impressionism also involve new chord combinations, ambiguous tonality, extended harmonies, use of modes and exotic scales, parallel ...

  3. Jeux d'eau (Ravel) - Wikipedia

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    Jeux d'eau has a claim to being the first example of impressionism in piano music. [1] The piece is known for its virtuosic, fluid, and highly evocative nature, and is considered one of Ravel's most important works for piano.

  4. Category:Impressionism - Wikipedia

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    Impressionism which began as a private association of Paris-based artists who exhibited publicly in 1874. The movement was named after Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) (1872/1873); the term being coined by critic Louis Leroy. Impressionism is also a movement in music and a literary tendency

  5. 20th-century classical music - Wikipedia

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    Maurice Ravel's music, also often labelled as impressionist, explores music in many styles not always related to it (see the discussion on Neoclassicism, below). Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948. Many composers reacted to the Post-Romantic and Impressionist styles and moved in different directions.

  6. Impressionism (literature) - Wikipedia

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    The Dutch Tachtigers explicitly tried to incorporate Impressionism into their prose, poems, and other literary works. Much of what has been called "impressionist" literature is subsumed into several other categories, especially Symbolism, its chief exponents being Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Verlaine and Laforgue, and the Imagists. It ...

  7. Impressionism - Wikipedia

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    Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.

  8. Category:Impressionist music - Wikipedia

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    Impressionism in music This page was last edited on 6 August 2019, at 21:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...

  9. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Musical artist Literary work Author Comments Citations An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End Of All Songs - Part 1: Spirits Burning & Michael Moorcock: The Dancers at the End of Time: Michael Moorcock: Three albums covering the three books of the trilogy. The Black Halo: Kamelot: Faust: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe