Based primarily on your own listening listen to Claude Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire, No. 5, Valse de Chopin compare them, focusing on how each sounds modern– that is, how each example abandons traditional rules of melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, or other musical elements.

Based primarily on your own listening listen to Claude Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire, No. 5, Valse de Chopin compare them, focusing on how each sounds modern– that is, how each example abandons traditional rules of melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, or other musical elements.