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Contemporary music - Coggle Diagram
Contemporary music
Century
20th
Impressionism
Artists show the world as they see it
Composers want to create sensations
Examples
Debussy
Preludio a la siesta de un fauno
Ravel
El Bolero
Paul Dukas
El aprendiz de brujo
20th century
International problems due to the social and political situation
First World War
Spanish Civil War
Second War World
20th century music
Rhythm
Complex and irregular
Atonality
Strange music
Melody
Dissonances, unexpected
Timbre
New electronic instruments were created
Expressionism and dodecaphonism
Artists shows sensibility and their vision of the world.
Atonalism, uses the chromatic scale, 12 sounds.
Examples
Edgar Varese
Ionisation
John Cage
In a landscape
4:33
Schonberg
Suite for piano
Neoclassicism
Composers try to find classicism again.
Examples
Stravinsky
L’ocell de foc
Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
Electronic music
In the second part of the 20th century, electronic music appears due to the development of technology
Examples
Jean Michel Jarre
Oxygen
Jarre Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams