20th century music
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20th Century Music
A search for the meaning of music
Copyright © 2005 - Frankel Consulting Services, Inc.
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What is music?
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What happened during the 20th Century?
• World War I• Communism• Capitalism• Women’s Rights• The Great Depression• Television• World War II - Holocaust• The Atomic Bomb• The Cold War• Cuban Missile Crisis• The Korean War
• Kennedy Assassination• Space Exploration• Civil Rights - Martin Luther
King Jr.• The Vietnam War• Man on the Moon• Watergate• Iran Hostage Crisis• Personal Computers• Gulf War• Internet• Fall of Communism
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Famous People from the 20th Century
• Mahatma Gandhi• Adolph Hitler• Neil Armstrong• Vladimir Lenin• Joseph Stalin• Mother Theresa• Franklin D. Roosevelt• Winston Churchill• Martin Luther King Jr.• John F. Kennedy• Nelson Mandela• Frank Lloyd Wright• Margaret Thatcher
• Ernest Hemingway• Pablo Picasso• Fidel Castro• Nikita Kruschev• Mikhail Gorbachev• Ronald Reagan• Theodore Roosevelt• Walt Disney• Elvis Presley• The Beatles• Charles Dickens• Marilyn Monroe
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Famous Artists of the 20th Century
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Pablo Picasso
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Jackson Pollack
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Henri Matisse
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Salvador Dali
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Andy Warhol
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Wassily Kandinsky
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Piet Mondrian
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Georgia O’Keefe
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Rene Magritte
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Characteristics of 20th Century Music
•Break every existing rule•Challenge the ear•Challenge the mind•Respect the past - look toward the future•If it doesn’t work - copy the past
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Styles of Music during the20th Century
• Late Romantic• Avant-garde• Impressionist• Polytonal• Neo-Classical• Serialism• Minimalism• Experimentalism• Chance Music• Electronic
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It is important to note the vast amount of different
styles and composers from this era of music history.
Why do you think there are so many in such a
relatively short period of time?
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Famous Composers of the 20th Century
• Igor Stravinsky• Claude Debussy• Arnold Schoenberg• Dmitri Shostakovich• Philip Glass• Steve Reich• John Cage• Karlheinz
Stockhausen• Vincent Persechetti
• Aaron Copland• Leonard Bernstein• Bela Bartok• Alban Berg• Milton Babbitt• Sergei Rachmaninov• George Crumb• Charles Ives• Edgard Varese
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We will now listen to what music historians feel is the
single most important composition of the 20th
Century
Igor Stravinsky’sLe Sacre du Printemps
The Rite of SpringPremiered in Paris in 1913