What is Modernism?
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What is Modernism?
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About this listen
Welcome to Between the Barlines! We learned in our first episode a little about modernism, but to refresh your memory about this term, MODERNISM in music is less a style than a mindset. Composers questioned traditionalism in tonality, form, rhythm, and timbre. Romantic emotional excess gave way to experimentation and abstraction. Key modernist traits include:
- Fragmented melodies and asymmetrical forms
- New harmonic languages, including atonality and polytonality
- Emphasis on rhythm, percussion, and timbre
- Interest in machines, cities, and modern life
- A deliberate break from the past—or a radical reimagining of it
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