Neoclassicism

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Neoclassicism (1920s–1950s) is the movement that returned music to the clarity of Classicism and Baroque — but with modern harmony. A reaction against Romantic excess and Expressionist turmoil.

Neoclassicism is a “return to Bach,” the motto of an entire era. Composers write suites, concerti grossi, and sonatas on old models, but with 20th-century harmonies, polyrhythms, and irony. The music becomes transparent, restrained, “sober.”

Representatives: Paul Hindemith (a workshop of compositional technique in Ludus tonalis), Francis Poulenc and the French group Les Six, Manuel de Falla. In Ukraine, owing to Soviet arts policy, Neoclassicism emerged only in the 1960s — in the work of Myroslav Skoryk and, later, composers of subsequent generations.

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Neoclassicism

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Neoclassicism (1920s–1950s) is the movement that returned music to the clarity of Classicism and Baroque — but with modern harmony. A reaction against Romantic excess and Expressionist turmoil.

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