20th Century MusicA search for the meaning of musicCopyright 2005 - Frankel Consulting Services, Inc.
What is music?
What happened during the 20th Century?World War ICommunismCapitalismWomens RightsThe Great DepressionTelevisionWorld War II - HolocaustThe Atomic BombThe Cold WarCuban Missile CrisisThe Korean War
Kennedy AssassinationSpace ExplorationCivil Rights - Martin Luther King Jr.The Vietnam WarMan on the MoonWatergateIran Hostage CrisisPersonal ComputersGulf WarInternetFall of Communism
Famous People from the 20th CenturyMahatma GandhiAdolph HitlerNeil ArmstrongVladimir LeninJoseph StalinMother TheresaFranklin D. RooseveltWinston ChurchillMartin Luther King Jr.John F. KennedyNelson MandelaFrank Lloyd WrightMargaret Thatcher
Ernest HemingwayPablo PicassoFidel CastroNikita KruschevMikhail GorbachevRonald ReaganTheodore RooseveltWalt DisneyElvis PresleyThe BeatlesCharles DickensMarilyn Monroe
Famous Artists of the 20th Century
Pablo Picasso
Jackson Pollack
Henri Matisse
Salvador Dali
Andy Warhol
Wassily Kandinsky
Piet Mondrian
Georgia OKeefe
Rene Magritte
Characteristics of 20th Century MusicBreak every existing ruleChallenge the earChallenge the mindRespect the past - look toward the futureIf it doesnt work - copy the past
Styles of Music during the20th CenturyLate RomanticAvant-gardeImpressionistPolytonalNeo-ClassicalSerialismMinimalismExperimentalismChance MusicElectronic
It is important to note the vast amount of different styles and composers from this era of music history.
Why do you think there are so many in such a relatively short period of time?
Famous Composers of the 20th CenturyIgor StravinskyClaude DebussyArnold SchoenbergDmitri ShostakovichPhilip GlassSteve ReichJohn CageKarlheinz StockhausenVincent Persechetti
Aaron CoplandLeonard BernsteinBela BartokAlban BergMilton BabbittSergei RachmaninovGeorge CrumbCharles IvesEdgard Varese
We will now listen to what music historians feel is thesingle most important composition of the 20th CenturyIgor StravinskysLe Sacre du PrintempsThe Rite of SpringPremiered in Paris in 1913