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Characteristics of the 20th century music
Pursues novelity, experimentation and originallity
Searching for a knew musical language that broke away from previous concepts.
Exploring different ways of representing music
using new comuter and instrumental resources -
Instruments
Synthesiser: a poliphonic instrument that makes artificially generated sounds
Vibraphone: It has metal bars with resonator tubes under them that virbrate by menas of electric values
Ondes Martenot: consist on a keyboard conneted to loudspeaker and a generator
Theremin: it´s played by moving the hand towards and away two antennas , ut without touching them
Sampler: it records sounds and then plays them back by means of a keyboard or other device -
First half of the 20th century
Impressionism
-Musical atmosphers inspired by nature
-Scales that evoked oriental music
-Imprecise musical lines and a free, irregular rhythm
-Timbres of different instruments overlapping each other, forming a sound collage
Expressionis
-It used a very strong rhythm
-Compositions were designed for small hamber ensembles
-It included strong dissonances to create a constant tension
-It used atonality and the twelve tone technique -
Atonality and twelve tone technique
Atonality: the use of non-tonal music tha was full of dissonances hat generated tension
twelv-tone tecnique: gave the same importance to all the notes, but forced to ordr them in series i wich no one could be repeated until all the other eleven notes had apeared -
Second half of the 20th century
Aleatoric music: way of composing based on chance and improvisation
Musique concrete: used sounds from the surroundings and modified them with the atest technology
Minimal music: aimed to created simple, irec music with minimal resources
Electronical music: way of composing that uses only electronically generated sounds -
Important musicians
Erik Satie: was a Frencch composer and a pianist he learnt to play the organ
Sofia Gubaidulina: was born in Russia she sutudied composition and piano in Kazan
