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    20th Century Music

    A search for the meaning of music

    Copyright © 2005 - Frankel Consulting Services, Inc.


    What is music?
    What happened during the
    20th Century?
    • World War I • Kennedy Assassination
    • Communism • Space Exploration
    • Capitalism • Civil Rights - Martin Luther
    • Women’s Rights King Jr.
    • The Great Depression • The Vietnam War
    • Television • Man on the Moon
    • World War II - • Watergate
    Holocaust • Iran Hostage Crisis
    • The Atomic Bomb • Personal Computers
    • The Cold War • Gulf War
    • Cuban Missile Crisis • Internet
    • The Korean War • Fall of Communism
    Famous People from the
    20th Century
    • Mahatma Gandhi • Ernest Hemingway
    • Adolph Hitler • Pablo Picasso
    • Neil Armstrong • Fidel Castro
    • Vladimir Lenin • Nikita Kruschev
    • Joseph Stalin • Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Mother Theresa • Ronald Reagan
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
    • Winston Churchill • Walt Disney
    • Martin Luther King Jr. • Elvis Presley
    • John F. Kennedy • The Beatles
    • Nelson Mandela • Charles Dickens
    • Frank Lloyd Wright • Marilyn Monroe
    • Margaret Thatcher
    Famous Artists of the
    20th Century
    Pablo Picasso
    Jackson Pollack
    Henri Matisse
    Salvador Dali
    Andy Warhol
    Wassily Kandinsky
    Piet Mondrian
    Georgia O’Keefe
    Rene Magritte
    Characteristics of 20th
    Century Music

    •Break every existing rule


    •Challenge the ear
    •Challenge the mind
    •Respect the past - look toward the future
    •If it doesn’t work - copy the past
    Styles of Music during the
    20th Century
    • Late Romantic
    • Avant-garde
    • Impressionist
    • Polytonal
    • Neo-Classical
    • Serialism
    • Minimalism
    • Experimentalism
    • Chance Music
    • Electronic
    It is important to note the vast
    amount of different styles and
    composers from this era of
    music history.

    Why do you think there are so


    many in such a relatively short
    period of time?
    Famous Composers of the
    20th Century
    • Igor Stravinsky • Aaron Copland
    • Claude Debussy • Leonard Bernstein
    • Arnold Schoenberg • Bela Bartok
    • Dmitri Shostakovich • Alban Berg
    • Philip Glass • Milton Babbitt
    • Steve Reich • Sergei Rachmaninov
    • John Cage • George Crumb
    • Karlheinz Stockhausen • Charles Ives
    • Vincent Persechetti • Edgard Varese
    We will now listen to what
    music historians feel is the
    single most important
    composition of the 20th
    Century
    Igor Stravinsky’s
    Le Sacre du Printemps
    The Rite of Spring
    Premiered in Paris in 1913

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