BIOL 1201 Chapter : Music Ch 34 For Test
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The shocking carnage of world war i caused intellectuals to. The recognition that color alone can elicit a strong emotional response from the listener was arguably the most significant development in the history of early modern music. While musicians from the first half of the century did turn away from the idealistic, sentimental aesthetics of. Disjunction, anxiety, and even hysteria became valid artistic sentiments that reflected twentieth- century reality. not ignore the traditions of classical music, they radically transformed the elements of expression, creating new kinds of melody, harmony, rhythm, and tone color. They renounced the idea that music should delight or comfort the listener and turned instead to shocking their audiences. The new music was analogous to the artistic style called cubism. In this style, exemplified by pablo picasso, the artist fractures and dislocates formal reality into geometrical blocks and planes. asymmetry and angularity.
