Search results
Dec 3, 2023 · The 20th Century Music Period: An Overview. All the Western classical music periods up until the turn of the 20th century had dominating styles and conventions. Composers tended to stick to these and lots of the music composed during that time had a similar ‘ sound ‘. But, the 20th century saw composers start to escape from these broad ...
Aug 23, 2017 · 1934 - In Lenox, Massachusetts, the Berkshire Music Festival began. 1935 - Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald starts her career with the Chick Webb orchestra. 1936 - The debut of electric guitars. 1937 - In Basel, Bela Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta premiered and in New York, the Glenn Miller Band debuts.
People also ask
How did music change in the 20th century?
What was classical music like in the 20th century?
What were the musical trends of the second half of 20th century?
How did music change over time?
Henri Sauguet (born May 18, 1901, Bordeaux, France—died June 22, 1989, Paris) was a French composer of orchestral, choral, and chamber music notable for its simple charm and melodic grace. While organist at a church near Bordeaux, Sauguet studied composition and, at the encouragement of Darius Milhaud, moved to Paris.
It must be added that the Romantic musicians—including Chopin, Mendelssohn, Glinka, and Liszt—had at their disposal greatly improved instruments. 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.
Feb 12, 2019 · Two assumptions were fundamental to much of the work of the founding figures of comparative musicology: 1. Cultures evolved from simple to complex, and as they do so they move from primitive to ...
- Patrick E. Savage
- psavage@sfc.keio.ac.jp
- 2019
Expressionism is a modernist movement that began in Germany and Austria in the early 20th century. Schoenberg, Austrian in descent, was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art. Being from Austria at this time, his music was often labeled as degenerate music, since Schoenberg is Jewish.
Musique concrète (a French term meaning “concrete music”) is a type of electro-acoustic music that uses both electronically produced sounds (like synthesizers) and recorded natural sounds (like instruments, voices, and sounds from nature). Pierre Schaeffer (in the 1940s) was a leader in developing this technique.
