20th Century

• Impressionist -

  • A style of music where ideas merge together
  • Gives the music a blurry, wishy washy sound.
  • Inspired by impressionist art
  • Use of rubato
• Jazz Funk -

  • Traditional Jazz music brought into the modern day
  • Electronic instruments and rock music characteristics were used to give the music more of an ’edge’.
• Soul -

  • A style inspired by African-American music
  • Used the elements of blues & gospel music
  • Tells a story, usually sad, and conveys a lot of emotion
• Musique Concrète -

  • Uses real-world sounds to create music
  • Musicians/composers would record sounds and then use digital technologies to edit these together.
• Harmonics

  • A playing technique used on string instruments - mainly guitars.
  • The string is tapped very lightly which produces a high-pitched, pingy sound