history:h_mus20c_a
History of Music - 20th Century - Formal
Introduction:
new styles:
modernism (Schonberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith)
neoclassicism (Stravinsky)
expressionism (Berg, Webern)
serialism (Boulez)
electronic music (Stockhausen)
aleatoric music & indeterminancy (Cage)
minimalism (Reich, Glass)
Composers:
Pre-WWII:
Edward Elgar (1857-1934):
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958):
Aaron Copland (1900-1990):
French impressionists (based music on non-functional harmonic principles):
Arnold Schonberg (1874-1951):
Austro-Hungarian composer, citizen of America from 1941
freer treatment of dissonance in the twelve-tone music of the New Viennese School of Schonberg, Berg & Webern
Chamber Symphony #1, Pierrot Lunaire, Verklarte Nacht
Alban Berg (1885-1935):
Anton von Webern (1883-1945):
Austrian composer, one of Schonberg's 1st pupils
Music for string quartet, Five orchestral pieces
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963):
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931):
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959):
Georges Enesco (1881-1955):
George Gershwin (1898-1937):
American composer wrote for pop music as well as concert music, writing songs, Broadway musicals which not only define the 1920's & 30's (esp. Oh Kay!, Girl Crazy, Lady Be Good), but break paths which would be fully exploited later by Rogers & Hammerstein.
the American equivalent of Verdi
Rhapsody in Blue (1924), Piano Concerto in F (1925)
Gustavus Holst (1874-1934):
English-born German
The Planets
Leos Janacek (1854-1928):
Bela Bartok (1881-1945):
introduced folk elements into music
Concerto for orchestra, concertos for piano, quartets
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957):
Carl Orff (1895-1982):
Erik Satie (1866-1925):
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936):
Sergei Prokofieff (1891-1953):
Classical Symphony, Concerto #3 Piano, Peter and the Wolf, Sonatas for piano (6,7,8), Symphony #5
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971):
post-WWII:
Samuel Barber (1910-81):
American composer
Adagio for Strings
Aram Khachaturian (1903-78):
Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-99):
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975):
Leonard Bernstein (1918-90):
Chichester psalms
West Side Story
John Cage (1912-92):
Maurice Durufle (1902-1986):
Luigi Nono (1924-90):
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94)
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