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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 1895.
• MAPLE LEAF RAG
SCOTT JOPLIN
GEORGE GERSHWIN
• 1898-1937
• RHAPSODY IN
BLUE
• I GOT RHYTHM
• GERSHWIN’S
MUSIC INCLUDES
ELEMENTS OF POP,
JAZZ, AND
CLASSICAL.
DUKE ELLINGTON
• 1899-1974
• 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)