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Tema 7 The 20th century - Coggle Diagram
Tema 7 The 20th century
Musical innovations up to 1950
The huge social and technological changes that took place in the early 20th century also affected the arts. Artists were conviced that were no longer clasical principles or immutable truths, but rather historical progress.
Modernism
The emancipation of the rythm of the time signature and the use of irregular time signatures. One of the first to do tis was Igor Stravinsky
The use of new sounds or noises in musical compositio, in particular by the Futurists and Edgar Varèse
The expansion or abandonment of tonality. This process was carried out by Arnold Schoenberg and his disciples.
1900- 1950
Futurism
Emerged in Italy
Composers
Edgard Varèse
George Antheil
Luigi Russolo
Neoclassicism
A reaction to musical experimentation, neoclassicism sought simplicity and variety and used styles and forms from from the history of music
Composers
Paul Hindemith
Carl Orff
Post- Romanticism
Developed in Germany
Richard Wagner
Large orchestra was usually used and numerous long works predonminant
Richard Strauss
Gustav Mahler
Expressionism
emerged in Germany in the 1920s
expressionism sought to express human psicology vivdly and violenty, sometimes grotesquely
Composers
Arnorld Schoenberg
Anton von Webern
Known as Second Viennese School
Alban Berg
Musical avant- gardes after 1950
Some features of art music from this period are:
In some styles, the main melody dissappeared and texture became important
Some composers created musical graphs to represent new universes of sound with noises and sounds that could not be represented clearly with conventional notation
Atonality, the twelve- tone technique and, serialism were developed. The results were melodies that were difficult to remember
Rythmically, the irregularity in the combinations of time signatures caused the desintegration of the constant beat
Introduction of new timbres
Playing just the mouthpiece pfa wind instrument
New timbres were also created using synthesizers
Hitting a sound box
Some of the most important styles
Electronic music
Aleatory music
Musique concrète
Minimalism
Serialism
Musical avant- gardes in Spain
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