Movements
Movements
Innovative Works
Musical Devices
Visual Artworks
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This movement followed a French aesthetic trend in visual art intending to evoke hazy or vague senses.

What is Impressionism?

100

This movement innovated randomized compositional procedures and audience participation and stemmed from a yearning to redefine music.

What is the Chance movement?

100

This masterpiece started a riot in the audience upon its debut in 1913 Paris due to its jerky rhythms and dissonances.

What is Stravinsky's ballet Rite of Spring?

100

This word describes harmonies that clash and often convey negative emotions.

What is dissonant?

100

This Monet painting belongs to this artistic movement that peaked in the late 1800s.

What is Impressionism?

200

This movement spawned compositional techniques that limited the composer's use of notes and led to completely atonal pieces.

What is Serialism or Twelve-Tone Music?

200

This movement had a visual art counterpart in Germany that innovated distorted forms, jagged angles, and intense colors to convey inner feelings of angst, fear, dread, and more.

What is Expressionism?

200

This song cycle by twelve-tone composer Schoenberg introduced a new singing style called sprechstimme.

What is Pierrot Lunaire?

200

This word describes a piece that lacks a key or tonic.

What is atonal?

200

This painting called The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch is from this artistic movement.

What is the Expressionist Movement?