Prof: Now today we’re going to be talking about musical Impressionism–next time modernism, but today musical impressionism. Impressionism, generally speaking, is a period in the history of music running from 1880 to 1920. It’s mostly a French phenomenon although it did expand, as we will see, to England and Italy and the United States even to some degree. We have the American Impressionist School of Art, for example. Let’s turn to the board here and visit some familiar names and faces. You know of the painters: […]

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