The Twentieth Century (1930-2000)

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    Charles Ives

    American composer that invented atonality.
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    Edgard Varese

    A non-tonal composer who sued modern orchestration techniques.
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    Louis Durey

    Wrote songs for French Resistance in WW2. Also wrote some Vietnamese themes in 1960 to protest the war.
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    Arthur Honegger

    He composed in all mediums, most of the time for commissions.
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    Darius Milhaud

    Studied with Debussy and rejected impressionism. Was heavily influenced by his trip to Brazil in 1918 as well as American Jazz.
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    Germaine Tailleferre

    While an amazing composer she usually doubted herself. She lived the longest out of all of Le Six
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    Henry Cowell

    An American composer and teacher who experimented to create modern methods of music.
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    Roy Harris

    American composer influenced by folk music.
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    Georges Auric

    Neo-Classicist composer who composed mainly film music.
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    Francis Poulenc

    Went to meet Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg but rejected their styles.
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    Duke Ellington

    American jazz composer who used a unique big band style.
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    Aaron Copland

    Most popular American composer of the 20th century.
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    Pierre Schaeffer

    Developed musique concrete by using a tape recorder to record and use sounds in 1940
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    John Cage

    Lectured on Indeterminate music style and focused on the subtle difference of composition.
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    Benjamin Britten

    Benjamin Britten is one of the best-known composers of the 20th century.
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    Milton Babbit

    Used maximized expressionism going into an emotional flurry in his works.
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    Leonard Bernstein

    American conductor, composer, teacher, and one of the most influential musicians of the 2oth century. Brought classical music to the public.
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    Non-Tonal

    This music was a style of a composition that focused on musical elements rather than pitch.

  • Empire State Building completed

  • New York Philharmonic on the Radio

    CBS broadcasts the NY philharmonic live over the radio for the first time and will continue to do performances with the NY philharmonic.
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    Hoover Dam

  • Star Spangled Banner

    Congress approves The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key as the U.S. national anthem.

  • Amelia Earheart takes flight

    Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly alone across the Atlantic.

  • (USA) Unemployment hits 25%

  • End of the Prohibition

    After 15 long years of Prohibition, alcohol becomes legal in the USA.

  • Neo-Classicism

    Neo-Classicalism is known for its contrapuntal texture and emphasis of rhythm.

  • Hindenburg Disaster

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    World War 2

  • Musique Concrete

    Far-reaching effects on modern music thanks to french composer Pierre Schaeffer who developed it using a tape recorder. It included recording sounds and manipulating them to make music.

  • Nuclear Warhead dropped on Hiroshima

  • Nuclear Warhead dropped on Nagasaki

  • Iron Curtain Speech made by Winston Churchill

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    Cold War

  • Indeterminate

    Also music based on the element of chance but focused on three types of chance.
    1. Conductor
    2. Musicians
    3. Composer

  • Aleatoric

    Also known as chance music, it is a new concept which the composer left some of the musical elements in the performance up to chance. This way every performance is unique.
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    Maximized Expressionism

    While including integral serialism was a dream to composers who wanted a complicated style. It is seen as the highest form of expressionism.
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    Textural

    Functioning alongside Non-Tonal music with waves of sound called sound masses.
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    Korean War

  • Electronische Musik (Electronic Music)

    Developed in Germancy in the 1950's. This style uses mixtures of other modern styles and then digitalizes the sound. It became very popular and heavily mixed with Musique concrete's recorded sounds.
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    Vietnam War

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    Minimalism

    A style of repetitive music which emerged in the late 1960s and came to its height in the 1980s. The idea is that a short phrase can be repeated with slight changes each time.

  • Neo-Romanticism

    Although it does have more dissonances than Romanticism it does follow the style in other areas. The music tended to be more melody and harmony.

  • Neo-Tonality

    Becoming the new amazing style of the 20th century it focused specifically on tonality. With this starts the bridging of the gap of consonance and dissonance.

  • Postmodernism

    An aesthetic attitude developed in the late 1970s that focuses on uniting past styles into an electric style. This is the style that bridged electronic music into modern pop.

  • Totalism

    A term which was developed to mainly describe music from composers in New York City responding to minimalism. Persues the paved path of Maximalism using complexity above all.

  • New Complexity

    This music is usually very abstract, dissonant, and relies on extreme contrast. Has very close ties to Totalism

  • Globalism

    As a direct result of technology like YouTube and other websites it opened composers eyes. How we think of learning different styles changed completely bringing music to a new age within 2000.