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Characteristic features of later 20th-century music with origins in futurism include the prepared piano, integral serialism, extended vocal techniques, graphic notation, improvisation, and minimalism.
The most important influence on 20th century music? African Americans and the musical culture they brought to this country – developed within the bonds of slavery.
The 20th century was clearly a period of widespread experimentation and many composers wanted the freedom to explore new compositional approaches without the restrictions and expectations that accompany traditional genres. Even when longstanding genres were used, composers felt very comfortable abandoning the traditional structures of those genres.
Oct 18, 2022 · Characteristics of 20th Century Music (An Introduction) Read full article here: https://www.cmuse.org/characteristics... One of the most important developments in 20th Century classical...
Compare and contrast the stylistic characteristics of different movements in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, including impressionism, expressionism, primitivism, neoclassicism, minimalism, and post-minimalism. Explain ways that technology and media have influenced music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The 20th century was clearly a period of widespread experimentation, and many composers wanted the freedom to explore new compositional approaches without the restrictions and expectations that accompany traditional genres.
The real and first important 20th-century musical innovations regarded the struggle against "functional tonality," a search for new forms of expression and underlying structural organizing principles. At the turn of the century, Western music had been distinguished traditionally by functional tonality, what we might loosely call a system ...
