Music

• 20th-century classical music is art music that was written between the years 1901 and 2000.
• 1. Phonograph
  2. 1877
  3. Tape Recorder
  4. 1928
  5. Transistor Radio
  6. 1954
  7. MP3 Player
  8. 1997
  9. Walkman
  10. 1979
  11. Compact Cassette
  12. 1964
  13. iPod
  14. 2001
  15. Spotify
  16. 2008
• What focuses on mood and atmosphere, "conveying the moods and emotions aroused by the subject rather than a detailed tone-picture"?

  Impressionist Music
• Impressionist music was created during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and started amidst world wars.
• What are the famous impressionist composers?

  1. Achille-Claude Debussy
  2. Joseph Maurice Ravel
  3. Dr. Antonio Molina
• Achille-Claude Debussy was called the first Impressionist composer.
• Debussy was influenced by the Symbolist Poetic Movement of the late 19th century.
• Who is known for experimenting with elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassical, and jazz in his works?

  Joseph Maurice Ravel
• Dr. Antonio Molina was one of the 20th-century Filipino composers who wrote art music.
• Dr. Antonio Molina was called the "Claude Debussy of the Philippines."
• Expressionism is a musical style that developed before World War 1.
• Expressionist music is atonal.
• What often features a high level of dissonance, extreme contrasts of dynamics, constant changing of textures, "distorted" melodies and harmonies, and angular melodies with wide leaps?

  Expressionist Music
• Who were the two expressionist composer?

  1. Arnold Schoenberg
  2. Igor Stravinsky
• Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American music theorist, composer, professor, painter, and writer; was the pioneer expressionist composer who avoided "traditional forms of beauty" to provoke powerful feelings in his music.
• Who was a Russian composer that revolutionized 20th-century music and provoked riots with The Rite of Spring; composed masterpieces in almost every genre, most notably an incomparable series of ballet scores?

  Igor Stravinsky
• The 20th century gave birth to Modern Music
• What was the progress in the fields of science and technology found its way to music; musical sounds were maximized through new ways of sound production?

  Modernist Music
• What are the characteristics of Modernism in music?

  1. experimentation with Form and Structure
  2. Atonality and Dissonance
  3. Use of New Techniques and Technologies
• What involves sounds created electronically?

  Electronic Music
• Electronic instruments were also used to recreate music for public performance instead of producing new ones.
• Chance music uses music elements that are left to chance or boundless possibilities and left for the performer to realize.
• John Cage Jr. was a pioneer in Chance music. He was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist; he was one of the leading composer of post-war avant-garde music.