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| | The History of Avantgarde Music |
 | | At the same time, the impact of exotic music (mostly based on modal scales), as well as of jazz (not only improvised, but also microtonal due to the "blue notes"), was beginning to be felt in Europe. |
 | | This development (basically, refocusing music on its internal mechanisms rather than on structuring content for narrative/emotional purposes) was actually paralleled in the visual arts, which liberated the individual components of painting (color, border, shape) from the "purpose" of representing nature. |
 | | Music is immanent in the works of Olivier Messiaen (France, 1908), both in his large-scale orchestral works, such as Turangalila Symphonie (1948) and La Transfiguration (1969), in his ghostly, surreal chamber works, such as Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps (1940), and in puzzles of arcane symbols such as Harawi (1945). |
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