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The 18 pages that link to Impressionism in music, each with the reason it gives.

• Romantic musicCompared with: It offered an alternative to Romantic music’s emphasis on dramatic development and heightened expression.

• Claude DebussyNarrower topic: The label often describes Debussy’s music, though he resisted being confined by it.

• Neoclassicism (music)Compared with: Its focus on timbre and fluid harmony differs from neoclassicism’s conspicuous formal references.

• Modal musicRelated: Composers used modes to loosen the pull of conventional major–minor tonality.

• Maurice RavelCompared with: Ravel is often associated with musical Impressionism, a label he resisted and that can obscure his formal precision.

• Whole-tone scaleRelated: Debussy used the scale as one resource for evoking unstable, atmospheric tonal color.

• Ralph Vaughan WilliamsCompared with: Vaughan Williams absorbed continental techniques while grounding much of his music in English sources.

• Camille Saint-SaënsCompared with: Its emerging sound world differed from Saint-Saëns’s preference for formal definition and clarity.

• English musical renaissanceCompared with: Its distinct modern language offered an alternative to both English pastoralism and German Romantic influence.

• Gabriel FauréCompared with: Fauré’s music is sometimes grouped with impressionism, though its methods and aims differ.

• Bix BeiderbeckeRelated: Its harmonic colors illuminate the sound of Beiderbecke's piano composition 'In a Mist.'

• Les SixCompared with: The group’s public rhetoric positioned its directness against this influential French style.

• Common practice periodCompared with: Its harmonic color often loosens the functional progressions typical of the period.

• Karol SzymanowskiRelated: French impressionist techniques helped shape the sound of Szymanowski’s middle period.

• Alexander ScriabinCompared with: Scriabin's coloristic sonorities can resemble Impressionism, but arise from different compositional and philosophical aims.

• George EnescuRelated: Its harmonic colors illuminate one strand of Enescu’s modern musical language.

• GymnopédiesCompared with: The Gymnopédies share atmospheric qualities but precede the style’s best-known works.

• Suite bergamasqueRelated: The suite is often heard through this label, though its dance forms and clear structures complicate it.