Music of the 20th Century Halton District School Board音乐的第二十世纪哈尔顿区教育局.pptVIP

Music of the 20th Century Impressionism Expressionism Jazz Minimalism Aleatory (Chance) Neo-Classicism Impressionism Focused on mood and atmosphere rather than strong emotion or storyline Musical impressionism occurred as a reaction to the excesses of the Romantic era Impressionist art Impressionist Composers Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Albeniz, Saint-Saens, Bill Evans (jazz pianist) Expressionism The tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect Its goals were not to create passive impressions and moods, but to strongly express (hence the name) intense feelings and emotions The primary expressionist musical movement was atonality Expressionist Art Atonality Describes music that does not use a tonal centre or key Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern Minimalism Minimalist music is stripped down to its most fundamental features and core self expression Reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells, with subtle, gradual, and/or infrequent variation (no musical development) over long periods of time, possibly limited to simple repetition Stasis, often in the form of drones, pulses, and/or long tones Minimalist Art Minimalist Composers Philip Glass, Steve Reich Aleatoric Music Music in which some element of the composition is left to chance or some primary element of a composed works realization is left to the determination of its performer Neo-Classicism This movement started in the early 1920s and continued to be a leading musical movement throughout the century. This trend is still popular today. Neo-Classicism is a movement which incorporated the music of the Classical era, in terms of clarity of texture and objectivity Stravinsky