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Early 20 th Century Music. Claude Debussy Prelude A "l'apres-midi d'un faune" Layers instruments and sounds to avoid a sense of pulse and meter Creates.

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1 Early 20 th Century Music

2 Claude Debussy Prelude A "l'apres-midi d'un faune" Layers instruments and sounds to avoid a sense of pulse and meter Creates an intimate sound despite using a large orchestra

3 Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, Part 3, No. 15 "Heimweh" Atonal Music – Music not centered around one note. All 12 notes are equal. Abrupt changes in rhythm, tone color, and dynamics Sprechstimme (speech-song)

4 Igor Stravinsky Rite Of Spring Father of Modern Music People hated it Critics called it “savage” Abrupt, disjunctive tonal shifts

5 John Cage Sonata V Prepared piano Aleatory – any kind of music composed according to chance or random procedures 4’ 33” Cage’s Prepared Piano

6 Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra Tone Poem –A piece of orchestral music in one movement in which some extra-musical program provides a narrative element

7 Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra

8 Aaron Copland One of the greatest American composers Distinctive American sound Wrote music to help people forget about the war

9 Aaron Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Billy the Kid – Rodeo Appalachian Spring

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