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- The invention of electronic instruments and the synthesizer in the mid-twentieth century revolutionized popular music and accelerated the development of new forms of music. Eastern, Middle-Eastern, Latin, and Western sounds began to mix in some forms.
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The beginning of the 19th century produced the modern piano, of greater range and dynamics than theretofore, and made all wind instruments more exact and powerful by the use of keys and valves. The modern full orchestra was the result.
- Transitioning from The Romantic Period
- 20th Century Movements
- War and Political Upheaval
- Jazz and Ethnic Folk Influences
- Minimalism and Use of Electronics and Technology
- Aleatoric Music and Experimentalism
- Classical Music in The 21st Century
- Summary
The 20th century period of music, as its name suggests, began around 1900. It is the last of the six periods of classical music erasand comes after the romantic era that ended around 1910AD. 1. Medieval era(500-1400AD) 2. Renaissance era(1400-1600AD) 3. Baroque era(1600-1750AD) 4. Classical era(1730-1820AD) 5. Romantic era(1800-1910AD) 6. 20th Cent...
As we mentioned earlier, the 20th century isn’t made up of one style but actually several different movements that were popular with different composers and at different points throughout the 20th century. Below, we’ll take a look at some of these movements and the composers that lead the way in developing them.
With two World Wars, the 20th Century was a time of major social and political change, and it was inevitable that this would have an impact on the arts. Working in Stalinist Russia, Dmitri Shostakovich was forced to scale back his modernism in favor of a more populist, Romantic-inspired style in his symphonic works that was acceptable to the author...
Jazz, which was created by African Americans, was arguably the biggest musical development of the 20th Century. The USA was now a force to be reckoned with in the world of classical composition for the first time, and a number of American composers looked towards the artform for inspiration, including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and George Ger...
Starting in the 1960s, the minimalist school focused on using minimal musical material and making use of repetitive patterns, loops and electronic techniques, reflecting technological advances of the day. This music was generally more consonant-sounding and less overtly challenging than the modernist school, and composers like Phillip Glass and Ste...
As the 20th Century continued, people came up with various inventive ways of challenging the very meaning of composition. Aleatoric music is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance. Often this means that the performer gets to determine how part of the piece should be played, perhaps with a freely improvised section. Henry C...
Important classical music continues to be made in the present day in a range of styles. The internet has made music more accessible, making it easier for sub-genres to cross-pollinate and influence each other more easily. Music and notation software have also revolutionised the ways in which we make music. Film music has become incredibly popular a...
So that concludes our look at the classical music of the 20th Century. We have learned about impressionism, modernism, minimalism and aleatory, and about how war, politics and technology influenced music, as composers tore up the rules that were established in previous centuries. We hope you’ve enjoyed learning about and listening to some of this r...
Feb 12, 2019 · For example, Zivic et al. linked traditional periodization boundaries in Western classical music (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20 th century) to changes in pitch distribution patterns, while...
- Patrick E. Savage
- psavage@sfc.keio.ac.jp
- 2019
Apr 10, 2019 · Human history is underscored by music — largely in a communal, participatory way in most cultures, be they holding out in the Amazon rainforest or across the street from the casino in Monaco. But European culture is alone in the breadth and size of the band that has evolved to perform art music: the orchestra.
Western music, Music produced in Europe as well as the music derived from European forms from ancient times to the 21st century. All ancient civilizations entered historical times with a flourishing musical culture.
In the nineteenth century, some writers claimed that classical music was an autonomous art that should be admired for its own sake; nevertheless, music never fully escaped politics. The period between the world wars brought new links between music and politics.
Twentieth century music brought new freedom and wide experimentation with new musical styles and forms that challenged the accepted rules of music of earlier periods. The invention of electronic instruments and the synthesizer in the mid-twentieth century revolutionized popular music and accelerated the development of new forms of music.
