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    This document summarizes musical styles and trends from the 20th century to present day. It describes post-romantic impressionistic techniques used by Debussy and Ravel. It also outlines how World War I and II influenced more extreme musical styles aimed to shock listeners. Finally, it lists several prominent 20th century composers and the compositional styles they employed, such as atonality, serialism, and incorporation of popular musical styles into classical music.

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    This document summarizes musical styles and trends from the 20th century to present day. It describes post-romantic impressionistic techniques used by Debussy and Ravel. It also outlines how World War I and II influenced more extreme musical styles aimed to shock listeners. Finally, it lists several prominent 20th century composers and the compositional styles they employed, such as atonality, serialism, and incorporation of popular musical styles into classical music.

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    20

    th

    Century - Present

    Post Romantic Impressionistic


    Whole-tone scale
    Parallel chords
    Ninth chords
    Orchestral color
    Static rhythm
    Small forms

    Claude Debussy

    Maurice Ravel

    20th Century Background:


    World War 1 and 2
    The most extreme exaggeration
    Goal: to shock the senses
    Stronger racism
    Independency and dependency
    Economic extremity

    Compositional Styles:
    Polyrhythm
    Neo-melody (including microtonal melody)
    Polychords
    Polyharmony
    Polytonality
    Atonality
    Sprechstimme

    Music Trends:
    Atonality
    Dadaism
    Expressionism
    Neo-classic
    Serialism
    Twelve-tone
    Formalism
    Indeterminacy
    Popular style (blues, jazz, pop, rock, hiphop, etc)

    Igor Stravinsky

    Bela Bartok

    George Gershwin

    Arnold Schoenberg

    Aaron Copland

    John Cage

    Gyorgy Ligeti

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