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3 gru 2023 · This article will investigate the different strands of the classical music of the 20th Century, the composers who contributed to them and some of their key pieces. We’ll take a look at impressionism, modernism and atonalism, electronic music and minimalism, and the influences that jazz and folk had upon classical music, as well the impact ...
4 wrz 2023 · As we take a look at 20 of the greatest 20th-century composers, we’ll encounter a diverse selection of styles, including modernism, impressionism, and minimalism. Let’s get started.
Key Takeaways. This chapter introduces a number of pitch collections that appealed to many composers in the 20 th century: diatonic collection, as separate from major/minor scales or diatonic modes.
2 mar 2000 · Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century builds on the foundations of Music since the First World War (first published 1977, revised edition 1988). It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975.
This section includes readings that will provide an overview of major trends in the Modern era. The readings will specifically focus on impressionism, expressionism, and twelve-tone technique. It also provides specific information on composers and pieces created in those styles.
Whatever their specific approach, progressive 20th-century composers everywhere clearly gave precedence to melodic-rhythmic energies. Even instrumental colour was pressed into the service of melodic definition.
The first chapter introduces several approaches to rhythm used by composers of twentieth-century Western concert music. The next five chapters introduce students to the building blocks of set theory: integer notation , pitches vs. pitch classes , intervals and interval classes , sets and set classes , operations , and interval class vectors .
