Expressionist music seeks to depict subjective emotions rather than objective reality through distortion, exaggeration, and fantasy. It often features dissonance, extreme contrasts in dynamics and texture, and angular melodies. Characteristics include atonality without a tonal center, use of a twelve-tone scale, dissonant harmony, unbalanced rhythm, and polyphonic tone color. Arnold Schoenberg was a pioneering composer who developed dodecaphonic technique of serialism using sets of twelve tones without tonality. He was influenced by German expressionist techniques like atonality.

1. PRAYER

2. EXPRESSIONISM
MUSIC

3. Expressionism
artistic style in which the artist seeks to
depict not objective reality but rather the
subjective emotions and responses that
objects and events arouse within a
person

4. Expressionism
artist accomplishes this aim through
distortion, exaggeration, and fantasy
and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or
dynamic application of formal elements

5. Expressionism
often features a high level of dissonance,
extreme contrasts of dynamics, constant
changing of textures, "distorted" melodies
and harmonies, and angular melodies with
wide leaps.
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6. Expressionism
 focuses on the inner angst and fear
lurking within the subconscious mind
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7. Characteristics of Musical Expressionism
HARMONY
 uses atonality or lack of tonal center
 uses a twelve-tone scale
 does not have any stable harmony and it
generally uses dissonance

8. Characteristics of Musical Expressionism
RHYTHM
unbalanced and generally
understated

9. Characteristics of Musical Expressionism
TONE COLOR
polyphonic

10. FAMOUS COMPOSER
Arnold Schoenberg
an Austrian-born composer who influenced
twentieth-century classical music
led aspects of the expressionist art movement and
the Second Viennese School approach to classical
music

11. FAMOUS COMPOSER
Arnold Schoenberg
an inventor
one of the first developers of the twelve-tone method
(also known as serialism), a technique in which notes
are grouped in sets of twelve and have no tonality, or
relationship to each other

12. FAMOUS COMPOSER
Arnold Schoenberg
was heavily influenced by German techniques—
particularly atonality, or music unrestrained by
key

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