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20th Century Art Music
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Key features:
- Whole-tone scale
- Pentatonic Scale
Key Features:
- Dissonant sounds
- Sudden changes in dynamics
- Disjunct melodies - melodies that jump all over the place
These three composers were inspired by the work of Freud and his ideas about how the mind worked. They were also German and later started writing Serialism
Key features:
- Very organised music but often lacks a melody
- Can sound quite dissonant because of the tone rows used by the composers
Key Features:
- Often sounds like classical music put through a washing machine - something doesn't quite sound "right"
- Rhythmically complicated
20th Century Art Music
Graphic Scores
Your task:
Using at least two features of 20th Century Music we've explored create a short piece of music and produce a graphic score. Use plain paper and today I will accept a rough version
Impressionism
Expressionism
Neo-Classicism
Serialism
Impressionism was about giving the impression of something rather than outright stating it.
Some composers grew tired of all the different 'isms' so decided to reinvent classical and baroque music in a new, fresh way.
Expressionism was about trying to express our inner most thoughts and feelings. Expressionism doesn't usually sound very pleasant
Serialism aimed to revolutionise how music was written. The composers decided to write the music in a very strict order creating tone rows that they would use over and over again. It takes quite some time to get used to it.
Schoenberg
Impressionist music can sound vague and 'empty'
Webern
Debussy
Debussy was a French Composer who is considered the best impressionist composer of all time. Other impressionist composers include: Ravel, Satie
Berg
Stravinsky
Stravinsky is considered by many as the best 20th Century Composer EVER. He wrote in loads of different styles but spent a large part of his career writing in a Neo-Classical style.
Graphic scores are an attempt to break down some of the old rules of writing music and are, therefore, open to interpretation.