Debussy and Impressionism

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Impressionism

Borrowed from the field of visual arts, particularly painting. 

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Programmatic

Describes emoitions based on what the composer sees and demonstrates vague-sounding scales and clouded tonality

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Neomodality

Going back to the use of church modes

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Open chords

Chords having fifths and octaves but without thirds.

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Whole-tone mode

Mode that uses a scale having six whole steps to the octave

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Parallelism

Two or more melodies moving simultaneously in the same direction and by the same intervals

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Free rhythms

Less use of regular rhythms

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faun

Roman minor deity represented as having the body of a human, but the horns, pointed ears, hindquarters of a goat.