FEATURES OF 20th CENTURY FRENCH MUSIC

This article analyzes the specific stylistic and aesthetic features of 20th century French music, the development of modernist and avant-garde movements in music, and the contribution of French composers to world music culture. The article examines the creative heritage of composers such as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Eric Satie, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez based on a modern analytical approach, and studies their harmonic, timbral, and rhythmic experiments. It also sheds light on the aesthetic principles that French music adopted in the 20th century, the harmony of nationalism and innovative research, and its interaction with other European music schools from a scientific perspective.