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 MAPLE LEAF RAG
SCOTT JOPLIN
GEORGE GERSHWIN RHAPSODY IN BLUE I GOT RHYTHM GERSHWIN’S MUSIC INCLUDES ELEMENTS OF POP, JAZZ, AND CLASSICAL.
DUKE ELLINGTON 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 COPLAND RODEO
JOHN ADAMS SHORT 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)