MODERN PERIOD

1900-PRESENT

PICASSO

• MARIE-THERESE LEANING ON ONE ELBOW

COMPOSERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

EXPERIMENTEDWITH NEW FORMS, TECHNIQUES, AND

STYLES.

NO ONE STYLE OF MUSIC DOMINATED THE 20TH

CENTURY.

THE MUSIC OF THE 20TH CENTURY BROKE FREE OF

THE ESTABLISHED STYLES AND TRADITIONS OF PREVIOUS PERIODS.

MODERN PERIOD•ALEATORIC MUSIC

•SERIAL MUSIC

•NEO-CLASSICISM

•NATIONALISM

THE DEBUT OF STRAVINSKY’S THE RITE OF

SPRING CAUSED A RIOT BECAUSE IT WAS SO

DIFFERENT.TODAY, IT IS CONSIDERED

ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF THE 20TH C.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

• THE RITE OF SPRING (1913) WAS THE BEGINNING OF MODERN MUSIC.

• STRAVINSKY’S MUSIC CONTAINS SOME OF THE MOST ORIGINAL IDEAS OF THE LAST 100 YEARS.

MANY COMPOSERS EXPERIMENTED WITH

ALEATORIC MUSIC.(CHANCE MUSIC)UNPREDICTABLE.

COMPOSERS LIKE JOHN CAGE PUT BOLTS AND NUTS

ONTO PIANO STRINGS TO CREATE UNUSUAL SOUNDS.

JOHN CAGE

ATONAL/12 TONE/SERIAL MUSIC BECAME POPULAR

WITH COMPOSERS AROUND THE 1940’S.

DURING THIS TIME, AFRICAN RHYTHM AND EUROPEAN MELODIES

COLLIDED IN AMERICA CREATING JAZZ.

JAZZ (RAGTIME)

• THE BIRTH OF JAZZ WAS RAGTIME.

• SCOTT JOPLIN IS THE BEST KNOWN COMPOSER OF RAGTIME.

• JAZZ FIRST APPEARED IN NEW ORLEANS AROUND 1895.

• MAPLE LEAF RAG

SCOTT JOPLIN

GEORGE GERSHWIN

• 1898-1937• RHAPSODY IN

BLUE• I GOT RHYTHM• GERSHWIN’S

MUSIC INCLUDES ELEMENTS OF POP, JAZZ, AND CLASSICAL.

DUKE ELLINGTON

• 1899-1974• CONSIDERED THE

MOST IMPORTANT COMPOSER IN THE HISTORY OF JAZZ.

• IT DON’T MEAN A THING

• TAKE THE ‘A’ TRAIN

THE BLUES

• A SAD STYLE OF JAZZ

• 12 BAR FORM

• SAD=BLUE

• IMPROVISED- MADE UP ON THE SPOT

• SYNCOPATION- PLACING THE ACCENT ON IRREGULAR BEATS

AARON COPLANDRODEO

JOHN ADAMSSHORT RIDE IN A FAST

MACHINE

THE MOST IMPORTANT MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF

THE 20TH CENTURY INCLUDED THE CREATION

OF ROCK N ROLL, FOLK, COUNTRY AND WESTERN, AND RHYTHM AND BLUES.

ROCK AND ROLL (1950’s)

• CHUCK BERRY

• COMBINED POPULAR ROCK WITH BLACK RHYTHM AND BLUES

• BILL HALEY-ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK

ROCK AND ROLL (1960’s)

• THE BRITISH INVASION (BEATLES)

• MOTOWN (THE SUPREMES)

• SURFER SOUND (THE BEACH BOYS)