Impressionism relates to a style of painting and composing from the last third of the 19th century. It was started by Claude Monet and his paintings and then worked its way into Debussy's compositions. In painting terms this style was characterized by "short brush strokes of bright colors...to represent the effect of light on an object"(Wechsler 6). The music of the impressionist composers contained "hidden" images and portrayed "reality" through music. The impressionist era was based mainly on light and the concept of reality and used nature as a background and ordinary subjects as the foreground.
Impressionist works of music contained some of the same characteristics of impressionist paintin
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