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Music, Theatre, Dance, Visual Art
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Scott Joplin
 Pianist- Ragtime Music
 “Maple Leaf Rag”
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Arnold Schoenberg
 12-tone music, atonal music
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Igor Stravinsky
 Russian, Modern Period’s comparison to Bach or Beethoven
 The Firebird, Orpheus, The Rite of Spring
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Aaron Copeland
 Music based from American Folk Songs
 Rodeo- The “beef” song
 Shaker Variations- “A Gift to be Simple”
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Duke Ellington
 Jazz composer, performer, and band leader
 Caravan
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Rodgers & Hammerstein
 Broadway composer & lyricist
 Carousel, Sound of Music, The King & I, South Pacific
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Leonard Bernstein
 Composer, Conductor
 West Side Story
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Changes in technology
 Music can be recorded and
reproduced in audio media
▪ Evolution from the phonograph
(record player) to modern MP3
format.
 Electronic music
▪ Amplification used to enhance
sound in performance
▪ Electronic instrumentation
▪ Computer generated music
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Art vs. Popular
 Art music is becoming more
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 Increased communication
▪ Music heard through radio &
performances seen through
Television.
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and more abstract
Previous period forms are still
being explored and modified
New technologies &
instruments increase
possibilities and range of music
created
Popular music is more
accessible to a wider audience
due to recorded media, radio,
and television
Genres such as Jazz, Rock,
Blues, & Country become
widely acceptable forms of
marketable music.
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THE BROADWAY MUSICAL!!!!
 American creation and combination of music & drama.
 New York City, New York, USA
 Differs from opera
▪ Performed in English
▪ Not entire performance is sung
 Famous Composers/ playwrights
▪ Rodgers & Hammerstein
▪ See previous slide for works examples
▪ Stephen Sondheim
▪ Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods
▪ Andrew Lloyd Webber
▪ The Phantom of the Opera, Cats
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Modern Dance
 Break from Ballet format in order to allow more expressive
movement
 Choreography becomes more important in story telling
 Isadora Duncan- Founder of Modern Dance
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Tap Dance
 Dance in which rhythms are accent with foot movements
 Fred Astaire
▪ MGM actor, singer, dancer- “The triple threat”
▪ Most actors of the early 1900s were expected to be able to have all three
talents
▪ Famous partner- Ginger Rogers
▪ Watch an example of his dancing▪ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxPgplMujzQ
Salvador Dali
The Persistance of Memory
Andy Warhol
Marilyn Monroe
Jackson Pollock
Lavender Mist
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Fauvism
 Began in 1905- predominantly French Artists
 Characterized by use of bright, nonneutral colors, bold lines & simple forms
 Henri Matisse
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Surrealism
 Movement that used fantastic images & strange juxtapositions to represent
unconscious thoughts & dreams
 Salvador Dali
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Abstract
 Pablo Picasso
 Art that represents reality NOT as we see it, very strong use of colors & lines
to define subjects
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Art Deco
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Popular in the early 20th century
Defined by stylized forms & geometric shapes
Used in Architecture, fashion, painting, and film
Easy for mass production