WHAT IS THE 20 TH CENTURY? THE 20 TH CENTURY COVERS THE PERIOD FROM JANUARY 1,1901 TO DECEMBER 31,2000 AMERICA AND EUROPE TRANSFORMED THE ENVIRONMENT WHERE GREAT CITIES SAW THE GROWTH OF FACTORIES AND RAILROADS AUTOMOBILES AND AIRPLANES WERE INTRODUCED WORLD WAR 1 AND 2 HAPPENED FOLLOWED BY THE LAUNCH OF SPUTNIK AND END OF THE VIETNAM WAR
STYLES OF 20 TH CENTURY MUSIC IMPRESSIONISM EXPRESSIONISM ELECTRONIC MUSIC CHANCE MUSIC
IMPRESSIONISM INTRODUCED IN A FRENCH PAINTING SCHOOL HEADED BY CLAUDE MONET.ITS PURPOSE IS TO BRING MOODS AND SENSUOUS IMPRESSION THROUGH HARMONY AND TONE COLORS. IT DOES NOT TELL A STORY BUT IT BRINGS AN ATMOSPHERE WITH THE USE OF BITS OF DANCES,RYTHMS,MELODY,SUGGESTIVE TITLES,ETC. CHARACTERIZED BY ITS DECORATIVE AND FRAGILE BEAUTY,ELEGANCE,REFINEMENT AND MANY MORE. CLAUDE DEBUSSY AND MAURICE RAVEL WERE ONE OF THE OUT STANDING COMPOSERS.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY(1862-1918) WAS BORN IN PARIS. HE DID NOT APPRECIATE GRAND THEMES,HEAVY,POMPOUS,AND SERIOUS ROMANTIC MUSIC BY GERMANS.HE FELT THAT MUSIC SHOULD BE CREATED TO APPEAL TOONES SENSES AND MUST BE PLEASURABLE.HIS ORCHESTRAL COMPOSITIONS WERE ALL IMPRESSIONISTIC.HE USED THE 2ND,4TH,5TH AND 7TH INTERVALS CHORDS WHICH MOVE IN ONE DIRECTION
NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS OF DEBUSSY FETES(FESTIVAL) NUAGES(CLOUDS) PRELUDE TO THE AFTERNOON OF A FAWN(3 NOCTURNES) SIRENES(SIRENS)
JOSEPH MAURICE RAVEL(1875-1937) WAS BORN ON MARCH 7,1875 IN CIBOURE,FRANCE.HIS FATHER JOSEPH RAVEL WAS AN ENGINEER,AND HIS MOTHER MARIE DELOUART PROVIDED A HAPPY FAMILY.MAURICE IS A COMPOSER KNOWN FOR MELODIES,HARMONIES,INSTRUMENTAL TEXTURES AND EFFECTS, AND ORCHESTRATION.HE STATED THAT AS A CHILD HE WAS SENSITIVE TO MUSIC. HIS MOTHER’S BASQUE-SPANISH HERITAGE WAS A STRONGINFLUENCE IN HIS LIFE AND MUSIC.HE TOOK PIANO LESSON WHEN HE WAS 6 UNDER HENRY GHYS.CHARLES RENE GAVE HIM HIS FIRST INSTRUCTION IN COMPOSITION,COUNTERPOINT,AND HARMONY.HE HAD HIS 1ST PUBLIC RECITAL AT 14.
JOSEPH MAURICE RAVEL(1875-1937) HE WAS GREATLY INFLUENCED BY COMPOSERS SPECIALLY CLAUDE DEBUSSY.HIS PARENTS SENT HIM TO THE CONSERVATOIRE DE PARIS TO MAJOR IN PIANO.HE WON 1ST PRIZE IN THE PIANO STUDENT COMPETITION IN 1891.HE WAS CONSIDERED “VERY GIFTED BUT HEEDLESS”. HE CAME UP WITH HIS EARLIEST COMPOSITION AROUND 1893.HE TOOK PRIVATE LESSONS WITH ANDRE GEDALGE AT AGE TWENTY,WHOM HE CONSIDERED WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF HIS TECHNIQUE.HE IS YOUNGER THAN DEBUSSY BY 12 YEARS
JOSEPH MAURICE RAVEL(1875-1937) HE BEGAN WORKING ON THE MUSIC FOR A FILM,DON QUIXOTE IN 1933 MADE BY MIGUEL DE CERVANTES.HE PREFFERED MODES WITH MAJOR OR MINOR FLAVORS LIKE MIXOLYDIAN INSTEAD OF THE MAJOR SCALE AND THE AEOLIAN INSTEAD OF THE HARMONIC MINOR.MELODICALLY HE PREFFERED DORIAN AND PHRYGIAN.HE’S WORKS ARE CRAFTSMAN-LIKE AND PERFECTIONISTIC.HE STATED THAT “MY OBJECTIVE,THEREFORE IS TECHNICAL PERFECTION”.
SOME SONGS OF MAURICE RAVEL BOLÉRO(1928) DAPHMIS ET CHLOE RAPSODIE ESPAGNOLE GASPARD DE LA NUIT JEUX D’EUX LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN MIRROIRS
EXPRESSIONISM PERTAINS TO A GERMAN SCHOOL OF ARTIST AND DRAMATISTS WHO REPRESENTED THE INNERMOST EXPERIENCE OF THE ARTISTS.UNSUAL AND REVOLUTIONARY METHODS SUCH AS HARSH COLORS AND DISTORTED IMAGES TO GET AN INTENSE EMOTIONAL EFFECT.THIS WAS ATTEMPTED TO PENETRATE AND REVEAL INNER FEELINGS AND NOT TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL OR REALISTIC ART.
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG(1874-1951) HE WAS BORN IN VIENNA AND WAS THE MOST INFLUENCIAL COMPOSERS OF THE 1900s.HIS 1 ST WRITTEN MUSIC WAS ATONAL OR LACKING IN KEY.THE USE OF ATONALITY LED TO HIS “12 TONE SERIES”.HIS 12 TONE SERIES DEALT WITH MELODIC AND HARMONIC PIANO BASED ON THE ORDER OF THE 12 NOTES ON THE CHROMATIC SCALE. THIS IS CALLED SERIALISM
ELECTRONIC MUSIC THIS WAS INTRODUCED IN THE EARLY 1950s. SOUNDS AND TONES ARE TRANSFORMED BY ELECTRONIC MEANS THEN ASSEMBLED ON TAPE FOR PLAYBACK.NATURAL SOUNDS ARE REPLACED OR SUPPLEMENTED BY ELECTRONIC SOUNDS GENERATED IN A MUSIC STUDIO.THIS DID NOT REQUIRE PERFORMERS,LONG REHEARSAL,OR SPECIAL QUALIFIED PERSONNEL.PRODUCTION STARTS WITH THE COMBINATION,MODIFICATION,AND SOUND CONTROL PRODUCED BY OSCILLATORS
ELECTRONIC MUSIC THIS IS FOLLOWED BY RECORDING THE SOUND ON TAPE,COMPOSERS SPLICE THE TAPE,THEN MIX THE OUTPUT WITH RECORDED SOUNDS.THE TAPE NOW CONTAINS BOTH ITS PERFORMANCE AND PIECE OF MUSIC.SYNTHESIZING PROCESS IS EASIER WITH SYNTHESIZERS. THROUGH COMPUTERS,COMPOSERS ARE ABLE TO DEFINE AND CONTROL THE PITCH,RHYTHM.TIMBRE,AND OTHER MUSIC ELEMENTS. THIS WAS INTRODUCED BY MILTON BOBBITT WHO MADE SEVERAL MUSIC PIECES WITH SYNTHESIZER AND TAPE
ELECTRONIC MUSIC:MUSIQUE CONCRETE REFERS TO EXPERIMENTATIONS IN MUSIC WITH THE HELP OF ELECTRONIC MACHINES.KARLHEINZ APPLIED THIS METHOD BY RECORDING NATURAL SOUNDS.THESE SOUNDS WHERE MANIPULATED ON A MAGNETIC TAPE.RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION AND PRODUCTION OF SOUNDS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE FOR ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS OR VOICES TO PRODUCE.DURING THE 1950s AND 1960s THIS WAS USED FOR BALLET FILMS AND NEW MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATION. EXAMPLE IS POEM ELECTRONIQUE BY EDGAR VARESE
CHANCE MUSIC ALSO KNOW AS ALEATORY MUSIC IS A MUSICAL COMPOSITION WHICH SOME ELEMENTS ARE LEFT TO CHANCE.THISIS OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH PROCEDURES WHERE CHANCE INVOLVES A RELATIVELY LIMITED NUMBER OF POSSIBILITIES.ACCORDING TO WERNER MEYER EPPLER THIS PROCESS IS SAID TO BE ALEATORIC IF ITS COURSE IS DETERMINED IN GENERAL BUT DEPENDS ON CHANCE AND DETAIL.
CHANCE MUSIC COMPOSITIONS OF THIS TYPE OF MUSIC DATE BACK TO ATLEAST THE LATE 15 TH CENTURY WITH THE GENRE OF THE CATHOLICON EXEMPLIFIED BY THE MISSA CULUSVIS TONI OF JOHANNES OCKEGHEM.ANOTHER GENRE IS MUSIKALICHES WÜRFELSPIEL(ALSO KNOW AS MUSICAL DICE GAME) THAT WAS POPULAR IN THE LATE 18 TH AND EARLY 19 TH CENTURY.
TYPES OF INTERMEDIATE MUSIC(CHANCE MUSIC) USE OF RANDOM PROCEDURES-THIS IS TO GET A FIXED SCOREONLY IN MAKING THE COMPOSITIONS MOBILE FORM-INVOLVES THE PERFORMANCE ITSELF INTERMEDIATE FORM—REPLACED BY VISUAL OR VERBAL SIGNS SUGGESTING HOW A WORK CAN BE PERFORMED.
ACTIVITY ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION. 1.WHAT IS IMPRESSIONISM? 2.WHAT DOES THE STATEMENT “EXPRESSIONISM IS ARNOLD SCHOENBERG AND ARNOLD SCHOENBERG IS EXPRESSIONISM” MEAN? 3.HOW DID SYNTHESIZER REVOLUTIONIZE THE MUSIC INDUSTRY? 4.WHAT GAME DID COMPOSERS PLAY TO MAKE ALEATORY MUSIC? 5.IN YOUR OWN OPINION WHAT DID THESE 4 STYLES OF MUSIC HAVE IN COMMON?EXPLAIN.