Characteristics of Expressionist Music (An Introduction)

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Expressionist music reflected the artistic movement that adopted the same title. This genre of art involved the distortion of shapes, images, and colours to create wildly unrealistic works of art.
The aim was to enable new forms of emotional content and expression in the work. Often the results were disturbing, otherworldly nightmarish representations of the darker side of human nature.
Artists like Edvard Munch and Wassily Kandinsky are ideal starting points to explore this genre of art.