Timeline 6 Twentieth Century (1930-2000)

By Nat.DH
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    John Philip Sousa

    -Bandmaster, known for marches
    -Promoted the American Wind-Band tradition in American and Europe
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    Arnold Schoenberg

    -Austrian Composer, theorist, and painter
    -Admired Brahms
    -Went Atonal circa 1907
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    Charles Ives

    -One of the most innovative and original composition
    -Ives style traits- Polytonality, Polyrhythms, Polymeter, Limited atonality
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    Anton Webern

    -Part of the Second Vinnese School
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    Igor Stravinsky

    -Russian Composer, musical style changed overtime
    -The Rite of Springs, Firebird
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    Robert Nathaniel Dett

    -Canadian American composer, pianist, and help find the National Association of Negro Muscians NANM
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    Luigi Russolo

    -Italian futurist, painter, composer, builder of experimental musical intruments wrote a creed or manifesto titled " The Art of Noises"
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    Florence Price

    -First Black Female composer to have a symphony performed by American Orchestral Symphony No.1 in E minor
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    Nadia Boulanger

    -Taught practically all 20th Century execpt George Gershwin
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    Sergi Prokofied

    -Russian Composer; orchestral pieces, piano works, and film music "Peter and The Wolf" 1936
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    William Grant Still

    -First balck american composer to have a major symphony and opera performed by a major ensemble 1931, 1936
    -First Black american to conduct a major symphony orchestra 1936
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    Henry D. Cowell

    -John Cage's teacher
    -American composer, innovator, teacher
    -Supported Charles Ives
    -Invented new techniques for piano
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    Federico Garcia Lorca

    -Spanish Poet
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    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington

    -American Composer and pianist
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    Aaron Copland

    -Composer, teacher, critic, conductor,
    -Taught at Harvard and gave lectures
    -Style of music- Vigorou, tonal, transparent
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    Elliot Carter

    -American Composer
    -Influential as a teacher and as a composer for 50 years
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    Oliver Messiaen

    -French Composer
    -Incorporatedbird songs into his music
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    John Cage

    -American Composer, theorist, and philosopher
    -He invented prepare piano
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    Billy Strayhorn

    -American Jazz Composer
    -Collaborated with Duke Ellington
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    Billie Holiday

    -Her real name is Eleanora Fagan
    -American Jazz and Swing singer
    -Known for being a lead Jazz singer
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    Milton Babbitt

    -American Composer & Pianist
    -Known for Electronic Music
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    Leonard Berstein

    -American composer, conductor, music educator
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    Gyorgy Legeti

    -Hungarian Austrian Composer of contemporary classical music
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    Pierre Boulez

    -French Composer
    -Dominant figure of the Post-War classical music world
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    Luciano Berio

    -Italian Composer
    -Known for electronic music
    -Established the electronic studio in Milan
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    Karlheinz Stockhausen

    -German Composer
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    The Great Depression

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    George Crumb

    -American Composer of modern classical music
  • The Invention of the Electrical Guitar

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    John Willimas

    -American Composer
    -Known for composing Cinamtic pieces
    -Performed for President Obama's Inaguaration
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    The Swing Era

    -Form of Jazz Improvation
    -After the Great Depression
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    World War II

    -Germany invades Poland
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    Big Band Era

    -Bigger jazz Groups
    -Dominated Jazz in early 1940's when the swing was popular
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    -The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
    -U.S.A Enters war
  • Appalachin Spring

    -Ballet for Martha Graham who was the lead dancer
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    Bebop

    -The new form of Jazz, late 1940's
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    Musique Concrete

    -New musical Style
  • Prepare Piano

    -John Cage created
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    Rock 'N' Roll

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    Quater Tone Music

    -Occured when first comouter music first emerge
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    Film Music became more Prominent

  • Invention of Widespread Cinema

  • Role of Silence in Music (Cage)

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    Serialist Period

  • West Side Story (Bernstein)

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    George Gershwin

    -American composer, pianist
    -Did not get taught by Nadia Boulanger