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1850-1920 The Dissolution of Tonality 1890-1910 Impressionism - coloristic harmony, static melody, focus on instrumental timbre, in order to convey an specific image. [Debussy, Ravel] 1910 (1) Atonality - Music that displays (2) New ways of creating pitch (3) Mixing of different musical (4) Futurism - All sounds an absence of a pitch center. centricity. styles. (musical, natural, industrial, etc.) [Arnold Schoenberg, Anton [Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok] [Charles Ives] may be used as musical material. Webern, Alban Berg] [Luigi Russolo (1913) - painter, George Antheil, Henry Cowell, Edgard Varese] World War I (1914-1918) 1920 (1) Neoclassicism - Reemphasis on traditional composition techniques (2) Experimentation in the U.S. - followed the legacy of Ives. and formal structures of the Baroque and Classical periods. Roughly [Cowell, Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, Varese] 1920-1935. [Stravinsky, Bartok, Prokofiev, Hindemith, Copland, Schoenberg] 1923 Tweleve-tone music - The serial ordering of all twelve chromatic pitches. [Schoenberg, Webern, Berg] World War II (1939-1945) 1949 (1) Total Serialism - Highly conscious approach to musical composition. (2) Aleatory - Intuitive approach to musical composition that involves Any musical parameter (pitch duration, articulation, etc.) may be ordered indeterminancy in either the composition or performance of a work. to form a series. Normally, pitch and one other musical element is [John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown] ordered for a work to be considered serial. [Boulez, Stockhausen, Babbitt] (1) Texture and Color (2) Quotation of earlier (3) Microtonal Music - (4) Music Theater - (5) Electro-Acoustic (6) Minimalism as the primary music. The semitone is divided Drama and music in new Music - Music that is (c.1962) - A reduction compositional focus. [Luciano Berio, Lukas into quarter-tones. forms other than opera. produced through of musical material. [Gyorgy Ligeti, Foss, Davies] [John Eaton, Ben [Cage, Mauricio Kagel, electronic means such [Terry Riley, Steve Krzysztof Penderecki] Johnston] Davies, Crumb] as a tape recorder. Reich, Philip Glass] [Pierre Schaeffer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Varese, Berio].

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