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MUSIC UNIT 7: THE 20th CENTURY - Coggle Diagram
MUSIC UNIT 7: THE 20th CENTURY
MUSICAL INNOVATIONS UP TO 1950
Modernism --> Musicians broke with tradition and innoved
Major musical innovations
Emancipation of the rhythm of the time signature and the use of irregular time signatures
Use of new sounds or noises in musical composition
Expansion or abandonment of tonality
Styles from 1900-1950
Futurism
Noise was added
Music progressed in line with technological developements
Italy
Neoclassicism
Based on tonality
Reach a wider audience
Simplicity and variety and used styles and forms from the history of music
Post-Romanticism
Germany
Wagner
Large orchestra used and long works were composed
Expressionism
Express human psychology vividly and violently
New melodies, dissonance and new combinations of timbre
Germany in 1920s
MUSICAL AVANT-GARDES AFTER 1950
Features of art music
Musical graphs
atonality, the twuelve-tone technique and serialism
Texture became important
Desintegration of the constant beat
New timbres
Most important styles
Serialism
Values of musical elements
Other musical dimensions
Musique concrète
Recording sound materials
Composer presents his/her own work
Electronic music
Electronic equipment
Acoustic instruments
Aleatory music
Use of chance and open forms
New systems of notation
Minimalism
Repetition of simple sound materials
Figures or motifs
Harmony is consonant and static
Musical avant-chances in Spain
Generación del 51
CHORD FACTORS AND NON CHORD TONES
Chord factors --> the components of a chord
Non-chord tones --> notes that are not part of the chord that accompanies them
Passing notes
Neighbour tones
Embellishing tones
REGGAE
1960s
Jamaica
Jamaican beats and Afro-American music
Off beats on the guitar and the dominant role of the bass
Left mark on pop music