What is the meaning of impressionism songs?

· Was a movement in European Classical Music, mainly in France

· Began in late 19th century continued into the middle of the 20th century

· Focused on suggestion and atmosphere rather than strong emotion or the depiction of a story

· Occurred as a reaction to the excesses of the romantic era

· Characterized by dramatic use of the major and minor scale

· Makes more use of dissonance and more uncommon scales such as the whole tone scale, chromatic and exotic rhythms

· Romantic composers also used long forms of music such as the symphony as concerto, while impressionist composers favoured short forums such as the nocturne, arabesque, and prelude.

· Was based in france

· French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice ravel are generally considered to be the two "great" impressionists.

· Many musical instructions in impressionist pieces are written in French

· Begun by Debussy

· In place of the usual harmonic progression, he developed a style in which chords are valued for their individual sonorities rather than for their relations to one another.

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