Claude Debussy’s, Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg, helped push the transformation of music in the 20th century. Tired of the tender melodies and the emotional tone of the romantic era,these composers experimented with tone, rhythm, and melody eventually defining news styles of music. The purpose of this paper to identify the similarities and the differences between Debussy’s La Mer, Stravinsky’s Right of Spring, and Schoenberg’s Erwartung. Claude Debussy’s La Mer is an orchestral composition that was part of a collection of impressionistic pieces. It starts out with light plucking of the harp with bass accompaniment. The texture builds as the other strings and wildwoods join the harmony. Out of the three pieces, the melody in La Mer
