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Jan Swafford

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Innovation in Music: Expressing Beyond Music

Innovation in music comes from trying to express something outside music. Significant musical innovations have been driven by the desire to convey themes and emotions beyond just technical experimentation. For instance, the Eroica symphony was inspired by Napoleon, Wagner developed a revolutionary musical style to illustrate his stories, Schoenberg created a new musical language to express unique poems in Pierrot Lunaire, and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring depicted primitive Russia.

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