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General Characteristics of 20 th Century Music

General Characteristics of 20 th Century Music. Tonality dissolves Melodies erratic, wide leaps, irregular rhythms and unexpected notes Rhythmic freedom Length is unpredictable Tone and colour experimentation.

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General Characteristics of 20 th Century Music

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  1. General Characteristics of 20th Century Music • Tonality dissolves • Melodies erratic, wide leaps, irregular rhythms and unexpected notes • Rhythmic freedom • Length is unpredictable • Tone and colour experimentation

  2. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), Opening Section • Ballet • Primitivism • Driving rhythms • Clashing dissonances • Experimental • Reception

  3. Arnold SchoenbergMadonna from Pierrot Lunaire (1912) • Expressionism • Set of 21 poems by Albert Giraud • Abandons tonality • Sprechstimme • Atonal

  4. Arnold SchoenbergTheme and Sixth Variation from Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 (1928) • Twelve tone technique • Classical forms • Retrograde, Inversion and Retrograde-Inversion • Pre-cursor to total serialism

  5. Webern, Third Movement from Five Movements for String Quartet • Designs are concentrated ,delicate, and short • Atonal • Imitative • Wide range of articulations

  6. Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man • Patriotism, nationalism • Open, spacious • For brass and percussion

  7. Boulez, Structures I, Book I, for Two Pianos • Total serialism • Pitch, duration, attack and dynamics

  8. Alban Berg (1885-1935)Wozzeck, Act III, Scenes 3, 4, and 5 • Atonal • Borrows structures from the past • Symmetrical • Leitmotiv • Music of extremes

  9. Béla Bartók (1881-1945)5th Mov’t, String Quartet No. 4 • Arch form • Five movements • Clashing chords, whirling melodies, asymmetrical rhythms • Extreme dissonances

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