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History of Music - 20th Century - Formal
- see also:
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):
- Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
- Fantasia on Greensleeves
- Symphony #3
- Aaron Copland (1900-1990):
- Fanfare for the Common Man
- Appalachian Spring
- French impressionists (based music on non-functional harmonic principles):
- Claude Debussy (1862-1918):
- French composer influenced by Wagner
- orchestral:
- Nocturnes (1899)
- La Mer (1905)
- Images (1912)
- the ballets Jeux (1913), Khamma (1912), La boite a joujoux (1913)
- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937):
- works:
- Bolero
- Daphnis et Chloe, La valse
- 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):
- Austrian composer, a pupil of Schonberg
- Anton von Webern (1883-1945):
- Austrian composer, one of Schonberg's 1st pupils
- Music for string quartet, Five orchestral pieces
- Paul Hindemith (1895-1963):
- Mathis der Maler symphony
- Carl Nielsen (1865-1931):
- Symphonies 1-5
- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959):
- Bachianas Brasileiras
- Georges Enesco (1881-1955):
- Romanian poem, Romanian rhapsodies
- 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):
- Quartets for strings, Sinfonietta
- Bela Bartok (1881-1945):
- introduced folk elements into music
- Concerto for orchestra, concertos for piano, quartets
- Jean Sibelius (1865-1957):
- Concerto for violin, Finlandia, Symphonies #2,5
- Carl Orff (1895-1982):
- Carmina Burana (1936)
- Erik Satie (1866-1925):
- piano music: Gymnopedie, Gnossienne
- Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936):
- Ancient airs & dances, Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome
- 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):
- Russian composer who in 1934 became French nationalty & then in 1945, American nationality
- works:
- The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), The Rite of Spring (1913)
- Pulcinella (1920) sparked neo-classicism
- Piano Concerto, Sonata, Serenade in A
- post-WWII:
- Samuel Barber (1910-81):
- American composer
- Adagio for Strings
- Aram Khachaturian (1903-78):
- concertos, Gayane ballet
- Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-99):
- Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar & Orchestra
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975):
- String Quartets #8, Symphonies 5,7,10
- Leonard Bernstein (1918-90):
- Chichester psalms
- West Side Story
- John Cage (1912-92):
- American composer
- Maurice Durufle (1902-1986):
- Requiem
- Luigi Nono (1924-90):
- Austrian composer
- works:
- Intolleranza (1960), Il canto sospeso (1956), Hay que caminar
- Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94)
- Polish composer
history/h_mus20c_a.txt · Last modified: 2019/01/15 20:07 by gary1
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