20th century nationalism in europe bartok, kodály (hungary) –songs of native hungary with main...
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20th Century Nationalism in Europe
• Bartok, Kodály (Hungary)– Songs of native Hungary with main currentof European music
• Les Six (France)– Objectivity and understatement with New Classicism– Milhaud, Tailleferre, Poulenc
• Russian School– Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev
• English School– Elgar, Vaughan Williams
• German School– Hindemith, Orff, Weill
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Bela Bartók (1881-1945)
• Report on Bela Bartók by Beth Harper
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Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
• For BSO• Treats single orchestral instruments in
soloistic manner• 5 movements• 4th movement
– Pentatonic structure– Non symetrical rhythms– Composer’s love for his homeland
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Late 19thC and Early 20thC America
• Shape note singing• Stephen Foster (1826-64)
– Lyrical ballads - simple music
• Concert bands– Adolphe Sax (Belgian)
• John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)• Charles Ives (1874-1954)
– Business man - composer on the side– One of the most original
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Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
• Boulanger
• Used jazz idioms
• Use of American folk tunes
• Simplify music - communicate to a large public - technology
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Copland - Billy the Kidd
• Story of William Bonney
• Ballet - concert suite
• Used many tunes from the Wild West
• Polyrhythms, polytonal harmony, dissonance
• Scene 1 - “Street in a Frontier Town”