20th Century Music PDF
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This document provides a brief overview of 20th-century music, covering different styles, composers, and key characteristics. It touches upon important genres such as impressionism, jazz, and ragtime.
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More diverse music Music = math - not made for pleasure, correct way to make music Glissando - sliding across notes Pentatonic scale - 5 notes Consonance - the resolution, nice sounding Dissonance - tension, harsh sounding impressionism - no clear meaning Ravel - Bolero (march like pattern) Took...
More diverse music Music = math - not made for pleasure, correct way to make music Glissando - sliding across notes Pentatonic scale - 5 notes Consonance - the resolution, nice sounding Dissonance - tension, harsh sounding impressionism - no clear meaning Ravel - Bolero (march like pattern) Took inspiration from spanish rhythm and japanese harmony and melodies Expressionism - emotional turbulence, reject prettiness Schonberg - Sprechstimm - speech singing Created 12 tone system Atonality - no central tone Ragtime - new classical music Jazz - syncopation (displaced beats), improvise (heart of jazz) Jopin - King of ragtime The entertainer 12 bar blues Smith - Empress of blues Lost your head blues Gershwich - Pianist and wrote musicals Could’nt be defined (classical or jazz) Rhapsody in blues
