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20th Century Nationalism in Europe
• Bartok, Kodály (Hungary)
– Songs of native Hungary with main currentof European
music
• Les Six (France)
– Objectivity and understatement with New Classicism
– Milhaud, Tailleferre, Poulenc
• Russian School
– Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev
• English School
– Elgar, Vaughan Williams
• German School
– Hindemith, Orff, Weill
Bela Bartók (1881-1945)
• Report on Bela Bartók by Beth Harper
Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
• For BSO
• Treats single orchestral instruments in
soloistic manner
• 5 movements
• 4th movement
– Pentatonic structure
– Non symetrical rhythms
– Composer’s love for his homeland
Late 19thC and Early 20thC America
• Shape note singing
• Stephen Foster (1826-64)
– Lyrical ballads - simple music
• Concert bands
– Adolphe Sax (Belgian)
• John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
• Charles Ives (1874-1954)
– Business man - composer on the side
– One of the most original
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
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Boulanger
Used jazz idioms
Use of American folk tunes
Simplify music - communicate to a large
public - technology
Copland - Billy the Kidd
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Story of William Bonney
Ballet - concert suite
Used many tunes from the Wild West
Polyrhythms, polytonal harmony,
dissonance
• Scene 1 - “Street in a Frontier Town”