Melorhyth〜Music effective in mind〜

･Present age of Kon music
Do around century 20(the 19th end of the century)?Music until about ending of World War II.
【 German sphere 】
A lot of spheres of German and Vienna in Austria were mainly made Music in the post-romanticism extension with.
The representative such as Mahler and Richard Strauss. It is, and a period of the end of the period romantic school from Zemlinsky to the first stage of New Wiener Schule after this. "Piano sonata" of Shoenberg's "Transfigured Night", "Pelleas and Melisande", "Song of Gres", and Berck and Webern's "Wind in summer" etc.
Shoenberg, and Berck and Webern invented 12 sound technique in the 1920's of the arrival, and searched for the possibility of the expression to the style that was called Expressionism by atonal after those initial works in around 1908 respectively.
Zemlinsky and Schreker secede from the functional harmony to this.
The Totonoteki work that had stopped the smell of the post-romanticism afterwards was left though Totono was partially taken.
In trends other than New Wiener Schule, Hindemith of the neo Baocc new Socmono principle and the neoclassicism by the expanded tonality. Curl Orff for Korngold, atonal, and Totono etc. who are and are features K･A Hartman who draws uneasiness of the 20th century in violence and the peculiar Ostinart wording who give modern seasoning and continued post-romanticism.
The generation afterwards succeeded the diatonic scale Tekitotono wording Hindemith Blacher and Einem, etc.
【 French sphere 】
It is a probability as for a peculiar music style to France. influence composers of Sarns, Faure, and San = Chausson, etc. by the WagnerThe esprit of the style (spirit) is Debussy musical the development of the quite new wording of abandonment of the functional harmony though keeps, and "Music of impressionism. " with Ravel. A color and perspective orchestral music method to make new harmony and the listener who had taken a higher-order overtone in the sense recollect a visual impression was invented.
Moreover, the whole tone music scale multiused for the first time by Debussy is paid to attention as one of the music wordings that thin the tonality sense.
Moreover, Russia and the ballet company (ballet Luce) were taken an active part recently in Paris and the ballet music was entrusted to a lot of composers.

1)Claude Debussy
1918 1862. Composer in France. The free theory of harmony etc. not caught in modal use and the functional harmony other than the major and minor scale were done. It is called, "Impressionism music (impressionist school)" because of feature composition techniques such as the most important work 'Sea' and 'Nocturne'.
2)Maurice Ravel
1937 1875. Composer in France known well by orchestration of ballet music 'Bolero' and 'Picture of exhibition'. The exquisite penmanship with criticism of superior orchestral music method said, "Genius of the orchestration" and "Magician of orchestral music" and "Watch maker in Switzerland", too feature.
The jazz influence is seen in "Violin sonata" and "Piano concerto To major key", etc.
3)Benjamin Britten
1976 1913. Composer, conductor, and pianist in Britain.
As for the most important work, opera 'Peter Grimes' and 'Simplicity symphony', 'War requiem', and 'Introduction to orchestral music for the youth' are known.
Quotation of part from Wikipedia