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Unit 3: 20th Century Music and Beyond - Coggle Diagram
Unit 3: 20th Century Music and Beyond
Modernism -the self conscious search for something new
Claude Debussy(1862-1918)
French impressionist, known for his transcendent style and hazy harmony
Exoticism-the use of other cultures and their music
Carlos Chavez
Xochipili(1940)
"Nuages"(1899)
Piece shows utilization of the octatonic and whole tone scales
Richard Strauss(1864-1949)
decadence- sensory pleasure; death and decay
Salome(1905)
Atonal-music with no tonal center
Arnold Schoenberg(1874-1951)
serialism-comp. method where every note in the octave is used before repeating
12 chromatic pitches=1 row
"Piano Suite, Op. 25"(1923)
Post War Avant Garde(Europe)
total serialism-serialize elements other than pitches
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima(1960)
Russian Music
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Russian composer, though rebukes this his entire career
The Rite of Spring(1913)
Dmitri Shostakovich(1906-1975)
socialist realism-upbeat, Russian music
absolutely no modernist, dissonance, and experimentalist
Symphony No. 5(1937)
American Music
Negro spirituals-oral tradition of African slaves; talks of hardships and freedom with the Lord
"My Soul's been Anchored in the Lord"(1937 Florence Price arrangement
minimalism-manipulates ostinato patterns to create shifting textures and distort sense of time
Philip Glass
Einstein on the Beach(1976)