Post 1900s era 1930-2000

By FBLOOMFIELD

  • John Philip Sousa published the Washington Post

    Promoted the wind-band tradition here and in Europe.
    Published the Washington Post, Semper Fidelis, Stars and Stripes Forever, and El Capitan.
    Conducted the "presidents own" marine band.

  • Elliot Carter

    Elliot Carter (1908-2012)
    He was an american Composer with a lot of influence

  • Oliver Messiaen

    He lived from 1908-1992
    Serialist French composer and teacher.
    Known for incorporating bird songs into his music
    Focused on religious subjects

  • Florence Price Began composing in 1910

    Born in Little Rock, AK. Died in Chicago, IL.
    First black composer to have a symphony performed by a major American Symphony. Symphony No.1 in e minor.
    She told people she was Mexican to avoid discrimination.
    Her career expanded in Chicago.

  • Luigi Russolo wrote a creed called The Art of Noises

    Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) was an italian composer.
    Identified 6 families of noises

  • Milton Babbitt

    He lived from 1916-2011
    He was an american composer, music theorist and interested in computer music.

  • R. Nathanial Dett helped found the National Association of Negro Musicians

    R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) was born in Canada.
    He was a pianist that also studied at Harvard with Natalia Boulanger.
    Published Cave of Two Winds and Two Step

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    Still and Hughes(Poet).
    Emerged African American Culture.
    Lasted up until the depression.

  • Gyorgy Ligeti

    He lived from 1923-2006
    A hungarian composer who settled in Germany.
    Active in elctronic music and as a teacher.
    Interested in clusters of sounds.

  • Pieere Boulez

    Lived from 1925-2016
    He was the most important composer of the french avant garde

  • Luciano Berio

    He lived from 1925 to 2003.
    The leading modern italian composer.
    Helped establish the elctronic studio in Milan

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen

    Lived from 1928-2007
    German composer who made innovations in electronic music

  • 1930

  • Period: to

    The Great Depression

  • 1935

  • Sergei Prokofiev published Peter and the Wolf

    Russian Composer: orchestral pieces, piano works, and fild music.
    Peter and the Wold uses a narrator and is a programmatic piece that was commisioned to help cultivate a musical taste in young children.

  • William Grant Still became the first black american to conduct a major symphony orchestra.

    William Grant Still(1895-1978) was born in Mississippi.
    He arranged music for Jazz bands and Dance orchestras.
    He blended African American idioms and european genres.
  • Period: to

    World War II

  • 1940

  • The unanswered question was published 1906

  • 1945

  • 1950

  • Charles Ives

    Charles Ives(1874-1954) works did not become widely known until the 1950s.
    He was one of the most innovative and original composers.
    His father shaped most of his styles by "harmonizing in then wrong key," playing on instruments that used quarter tones, played familiar tunes in 2 keys and 2 meters at the same time.
    Used polytonality,polyrhythms, polymeters, and limited atonality.

  • Florence Price Composed Adoration

  • 1955

  • 1960

  • 1965

  • 1970

  • 1975

  • 1980

  • 1985

  • 1990

  • Aaron Copland

    Aaron Copland(1900-1990)
    He was a composer, conductor, and sponser of concerts.
    He taught at Harvard and gave TED talk style lectures.
    Composed in a variety of atonal styles.

  • 1995

  • 2000