Music History

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Music History

• An Abbreviated History of
• Western Classical Music

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The Modern Period1900 - present

• The Modern Period includes many types of music
• Impressionism
• Expressionism
• Neo-Classical
• Neo-Romantic
• Chance Music
• Electronic Music

• Experimental (non-electronic

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Impressionism

• La Mer (the Sea) by Claude Debussy
• Bolero by Maurice Ravel

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Exressionism

• Transfigured Night
• by Arnold Schoenberg

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Exressionism

• Twelve Tone harmonic System

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Neo-ClassicalNeo-Romantic

• Rite of Spring by Igor Stavinsky
• The Planets by Gustov Holst
• Mars
• Jupiter

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ExperimentalNon-Electronic

• Central Park in the Dark by Charles Ives
• Lux Aeterna by Gyorgy Ligeti

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Electronic

• Tape Recorder music
• Electronic manipulation of recorded sounds
• Synthesizer music
• Sounds produced electronically

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Electronic

• Silver Apples of the Moon
• by Morton Subotnick

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Chance Music

• Some or all of the performance elements are left
  up to chance
• John Cage

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The End