Q1 (MUSIC)

• JONNABEL L. ARNOZA
 20TH
CENTURY
MUSIC
LEARNING COMPETENCIES

Describes distinctive musical elements of given pieces in 20th century

styles (MU10TC-la-2)

Explains the performance practice (setting, composition, role of

composers/performers, and audience) of
20th century music. (Week 2-3 C2 MU10TC-lb-g-4)
 20TH CENTURY MUSIC
During the 20th century, there were many innovations that contributed to
how music was composed and
performed. The technologies and new inventions open a variety of ideas to
the composers. Certain
compositional techniques and rules were either altered or rejected.
Composers had more creative freedom
to reach more people.

In the 20th century, music brought freedom and experimentation with new
musical styles and
forms that challenged the accepted rules of music of earlier periods. These
new styles were:
impressionism, expressionism, primitivism, neo-classicism, avant-garde
music, modern nationalism,
electronic music, and chance music.
•Music that requires the use of electronic
devices
•Electronic devices are necessary in
composing
•2oth century (modifying musical pieces-
Computer)

ELECTRONIC MUSIC
 • ALEATORY MUSIC
•Latin word ALEA, meaning DICE

• Types:
• -arrange structure
• -improvisation

CHANCE MUSIC
•Major movement in painting and later
in music
•Dreamlike music
•Emphasis on form and structure
instead of tonal color and mood
•Strongly influenced by poetry

IMPRESSIONISM
 • Dominant style in Germany in the years
following World War I
• Suited the times of social change
• Subjective emotions
• Longing for a better world
• Many expressionists went into exile after they
were forbidden to exhibit, publish, and work

EXPRESSIONISM
COMPOSERS
OF THE 20TH
CENTURY
 •1862-1918
•A French composer
•ACHILLE-CLAUDE DEBUSSY
•Born in Germany
•Studied in Paris Conservatoire (10)
•Won Grand Prix de Rome in 1884
-The Prodigal Son
• CLAIR DE LUNE

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
 • JOSEPH MAURICE RAVEL
• Also studied at the Paris Conservatoire(14)
• He was strongly attracted to abstract and logical
musical structure
• Elegantly sophisticated
• He composed approximately 60 pieces for piano,
chamber music,ballet and operas.
• BOLERO

MAURICE RAVEL
 ..
•Also spelled Schonberg
•Schoenberg achieved intensity of feeling through rich
harmonies and long soaring melodies
•He composed approximately 213 musical
compositions including concerti, orchestral music and
other
instrumental music
• Verklarte Nacht

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
 He challenged the very idea of music by manipulating
musical instruments in order to achieve new
sounds. He experimented with what came to be known
as Chance music. Four Minutes and Thirty-Three
Seconds was one his compositions, where the pianist
merely opens the piano lid and keeps silent for the
duration of the piece.

JOHN CAGE