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MODERN PERIOD
1900-PRESENT
PICASSO
• MARIE-THERESE LEANING ON ONE ELBOW
COMPOSERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
EXPERIMENTEDWITH NEW FORMS, TECHNIQUES, AND
STYLES.
NO ONE STYLE OF MUSIC DOMINATED THE 20TH
CENTURY.
THE MUSIC OF THE 20TH CENTURY BROKE FREE OF
THE ESTABLISHED STYLES AND TRADITIONS OF PREVIOUS PERIODS.
MODERN PERIOD•ALEATORIC MUSIC
•SERIAL MUSIC
•NEO-CLASSICISM
•NATIONALISM
THE DEBUT OF STRAVINSKY’S THE RITE OF
SPRING CAUSED A RIOT BECAUSE IT WAS SO
DIFFERENT.TODAY, IT IS CONSIDERED
ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF THE 20TH C.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
• THE RITE OF SPRING (1913) WAS THE BEGINNING OF MODERN MUSIC.
• STRAVINSKY’S MUSIC CONTAINS SOME OF THE MOST ORIGINAL IDEAS OF THE LAST 100 YEARS.
MANY COMPOSERS EXPERIMENTED WITH
ALEATORIC MUSIC.(CHANCE MUSIC)UNPREDICTABLE.
COMPOSERS LIKE JOHN CAGE PUT BOLTS AND NUTS
ONTO PIANO STRINGS TO CREATE UNUSUAL SOUNDS.
JOHN CAGE
ATONAL/12 TONE/SERIAL MUSIC BECAME POPULAR
WITH COMPOSERS AROUND THE 1940’S.
DURING THIS TIME, AFRICAN RHYTHM AND EUROPEAN MELODIES
COLLIDED IN AMERICA CREATING JAZZ.
JAZZ (RAGTIME)
• THE BIRTH OF JAZZ WAS RAGTIME.
• SCOTT JOPLIN IS THE BEST KNOWN COMPOSER OF RAGTIME.
• JAZZ FIRST APPEARED IN NEW ORLEANS AROUND 1895.
• MAPLE LEAF RAG
SCOTT JOPLIN
GEORGE GERSHWIN
• 1898-1937• RHAPSODY IN
BLUE• I GOT RHYTHM• GERSHWIN’S
MUSIC INCLUDES ELEMENTS OF POP, JAZZ, AND CLASSICAL.
DUKE ELLINGTON
• 1899-1974• CONSIDERED THE
MOST IMPORTANT COMPOSER IN THE HISTORY OF JAZZ.
• IT DON’T MEAN A THING
• TAKE THE ‘A’ TRAIN
THE BLUES
• A SAD STYLE OF JAZZ
• 12 BAR FORM
• SAD=BLUE
• IMPROVISED- MADE UP ON THE SPOT
• SYNCOPATION- PLACING THE ACCENT ON IRREGULAR BEATS
AARON COPLANDRODEO
JOHN ADAMSSHORT RIDE IN A FAST
MACHINE
THE MOST IMPORTANT MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF
THE 20TH CENTURY INCLUDED THE CREATION
OF ROCK N ROLL, FOLK, COUNTRY AND WESTERN, AND RHYTHM AND BLUES.
ROCK AND ROLL (1950’s)
• CHUCK BERRY
• COMBINED POPULAR ROCK WITH BLACK RHYTHM AND BLUES
• BILL HALEY-ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK
ROCK AND ROLL (1960’s)
• THE BRITISH INVASION (BEATLES)
• MOTOWN (THE SUPREMES)
• SURFER SOUND (THE BEACH BOYS)