Different Modernist Trends: Music and Modernity in the Context of Impressionist and Expressionist Approaches

This essay aims to discuss the manifestation of modernism in music by focusing on two early movements, impressionism and expressionism, which had different technical aspects from one another as well as separate modernist tendencies. while discussing these movements, this essay does not attempt to define modernism or to refer what the modernism in music meant from the perspective of different modernist tendencies, which made it visible. this framework shall not be regarded as a limitation, as it has specifically been set by the authors', who share a common personal perspective on this particular issue and the musical field.