20th Century

Born in Vienna, Austria

• studied violin at an early age

• Mostly a self-taught musician and received lessons in counterpoint

• Bela Bartok

• Aaron Copland

• Igor Stravinsky

• Arnold Schoenberg

Born in Hungary

• an interest in the folk music of his native country.

• his mother was a piano teacher

• As a child prodigy, he became an accomplishes pianist an at early age and performEd

• Bela Bartok

• Igor Stravinsky

• Armold Schoenberg

Born in New York

• Studied in Paris with famous compositional teacher Nadia Boulanger for three years

• was fascinated with Jazz

• Aaron Copland

• Bela bartok

• Claude Debussy

Born in France

• Entered the conservatory at 11 years of age

• Associated with Impressionistic music

• As a young composer, he went against the idea of using major and minor scales in favor the

Medieval modes, whole-tone, and pentatonic scales.

• Claude Debussy

• Igor Stravinsky

• Armold Schoenberg

Born in Russia

• from a musical family (father was an opera singer)

• achieved early success through his affiliation with Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (composer)

• Igor Stravinsky

• Armold Schoenberg

• Tony Montana

Began in the 1920's (the “Jazz” Age) in New Orleans and captured the spirit of the roaring twenties as a

fast and syncopated rhythmic music. The musicians would sway back and forth as they played this hot

stirring music as couples danced. Jazzed music is based on blues music (the penatonic scale).

• Jazz

• Atonal music

• Blues

music that does not conatin a key or tonal center.

• Atonal music

• Accapella

• Praise and worship

Invented by Arnold Schoenberg. All twelve tones within an

octave are arranged into a series or row, which provides all of the melodic and harmonic material on

which a composition is based

• 12-Tone Technique (Serialism) 

• 12-octave technique

• 12 se

several different rhythmic patterns sounded simultaneously.

• Polychords

• Polyrhythm

• Polybeats

Chords that contain 6 or 7 notes. Two different chords that are sounded simultaneously.

• Polychords

• Polyrhythm

• Polytonalitu