Editing 20th Century Avant-Garde (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Understanding</span> ==
The 20th-century avant-garde is understood through '''Color''' and '''Logic'''.

'''1. The "Blurred" Reality (Impressionism)''':
Music as "Light."
* **Debussy** "Dissolved" the "Fixed Chords" of the past.
* He used "Whole Tone Scales" (which have no 'Home' note).
* The music feels like it is "Floating."
* Like "Impressionist Painting," it focuses on the **"Perception"** of a moment rather than its "Structure."

'''2. The "Mechanical" Violence (Primitivism)''':
Music as "Rhythm."
* **Stravinsky** "Destroyed" the "Constant Pulse" of Western music.
* He used "Syncopation" and "Changing Time Signatures" (e.g. 5/8 -> 7/4 -> 2/4).
* It sounds like a **"Machine"** or a **"Ritual."**
* It reflected the "Industrialized World" of the early 1900s, where "Speed and Power" were the new gods.

'''3. The "Mathematical" Equality (Serialism)''':
Music as "Science."
* **Schoenberg** believed that "Key-based Music" was "Finished."
* He "Invented" a "System" where "No Note" is "More Important" than another.
* It is "Democratic Music" at the "Atomic Level."
* To listen to it, you must "Listen for Patterns" and "Logic" rather than "Beauty" or "Sentiment."

'''Stravinsky’s 'The Rite of Spring''''': The most "Influential" piece of the century. It "Changed Everything" by proving that **"Rhythm"** could be the "Most Important" part of music, "Freeing" it from the "Prison of Melody." It paved the way for "Jazz," "Rock," and "Electronic Dance Music."
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