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	Early European Music -Part One
		Medieval music, or music from the Middle Ages, includes the music from the 7th through the 14th centuries; music of the Renaissance includes the music from the 15th and 16th centuries; and music of the Baroque Era includes the music from the 17th and first half of the 18th century.
		Music making is the activity of Everyman, exacting the talents of variously trained amateurs who, with industry and practice, decorate their recreation and leisure in moments of social intercourse.
		Thus, since vocal music was composed in accordance with the natural ranges of the human voice and since instruments were used to substitute for (or double) vocal melodies, most instruments were constructed in a family of different sizes in imitation of the different ranges of the human voice.
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /M345/Early_European_Music1.html (2105 words)

	20th-Century Music
		At the turn of the century, Western music had been distinguished traditionally by functional tonality, what we might loosely call a system whereby music is constructed on a basic scale formation, major or minor, within which hierarchies of sound (intervals, chords) prevail, expressed as points of stability and instability.
		The musical world was still dominated by the late romantic aesthetic, and in music one heard increasingly dramatic secondary dominants, modulations, altered chords -- all the expansions of tonality and chromaticism that ultimately would undermine that very tonality.
		French music tended to be more fluid and poetical than the metrical "verse" construction of classical Italian and German music: less directional, more coloristic, with its "metrical, rhythmic, and phrase flexibility closely related to the free, non-accentual character of the French language" (Salzman 14).
	www.wsu.edu:8001 /~delahoyd/20th/music.intro.html (567 words)

	20th century music. Russian school.
		The real nationalism as a tradition in music was born in the middle of nineteenth century and associated with the "Russian five"* composers, the musician-innovators (innovators in the sense of Russian music, which unlike Western contemporary music** was still amateur).
		With his music began a new era of relations between Western and Russian music: during the nineteenth century Western music had influenced Russian style, but now the trends began to flow strongly in the opposite direction - giving a new color to the stream of western music from which it had sprung.
		His music was written for himself, and it can be easily seen: not all professional pianist can easily fit their hands on these spread cords, which were just nothing for Rachmaninov's huge hands (he could play a twelfth!).
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~boris/maha/music/russian_school.html (1211 words)

	Comparative Arts: A CyberEd Course: Part 9: 20th Century Music: P.1
		Viewed in this objective light, the events of the last quarter of the 20th century will in all likelihood exhibit about the same mixture of old, new, and experimental elements, of conservative, liberal, and progressive directions, of past, present, and future trends as those to be encountered at any historical cross section of time.
		Concrete music is the term used to identify one aspect of contemporary composition.
		In the earlier 20th century Schoenberg and Berg employed rigorous serial techniques with the tone rows and their segments appearing straightforward, in inversion, in retrograde, and in retrograde inversion.
	www.uml.edu /Dept/History/ArtHistory/compart/920th.html (1115 words)

	20th Century Music - Giants of the Early Years
		The coda of the 20th century is an appropriate time to look back to the beginning of the century, when the seeds for future evolution were being sown.
		In 1900, music was being written mostly by composers born in the 1860s.
		The 242 songs that are his legacy use a musical stream of laser-bright intensity to illuminate the poetry chosen as lyrics.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm5-5/Gaints-en.htm (1330 words)

	SoundStage! Fabio Bidini: in recital II - 20th Century Music
		"Music That Sounds Right" is what the back cover of this disc proclaims; and I suppose your reaction to the disc is going to depend on exactly what you understand that slogan to mean.
		Debussy's music is mostly impressions -- of reflections in gently rippling water, of fleeting, scarcely glimpsed movement -- and Fabio Bidini's playing is delicate and colorful.
		Bidini's technical abilities are certainly up to the music, although there are occasions when the pulse is slightly irregular as he adjusts to a particularly tricky passage.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev074.htm (853 words)

	20th Century Music - Part One
		Here, we'll try to determine why the music of these artists sounds as it does and has the emotional impact on us that it does by considering the music of the early part of the 20th century.
		But both cannot be music." Indeed, Schoenberg was convinced that he was placed upon earth by God to reveal God's laws in musical terms: "I am the slave of an internal power stronger than my education; it compels me to obey a conception which, inborn, has greater power over me than any elemental artistic formation".
		Berg's music drama (opera) Wozzeck (1901) "is one of the first dramatic presentations of the predicament of modern man. Also, the mode of presentation is novel and anticipates the naturalistic movement.
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /M345/20th_Cen_Mus1.html (1863 words)

	NPR 100
		The composition incorporates a wide range of musical and cultural elements that were part of that scene, from ragtime and blues to classical and parlor songs, and to African and Caribbean music.
		Music historian Nick Spitzer reports that Morton was the first to use "riffs" as musical building blocks.
		Music reviewer Tom Moon reveals how the song marked a resurrection of sorts for Gaye and influenced Motown to allow other artists in their stable to take creative liberties in their work.
	www.npr.org /programs/specials/vote/list100.html (7430 words)

	ArtandCulture Movement: 20th-Century Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As the 150 years known as the Common Practice Period came to an end, a new kind of Western music began to emerge in the dawn of the twentieth century.
		Almost all its music compositions adhered to a traditional tonal system; they centered around one pitch class, utilized only major and minor scales, and featured harmonies built with stacks of thirds.
		While this system undoubtedly produced some of the best music of the ages, by the 1900s composers were ready to look for other ways to tones and began experimenting with various scales, patterns, and compositional procedures.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?id=591 (754 words)

	20th Century Music - An Alternative View
		One of the principal causes, lies in the linguistic diversity that is a hallmark of Twentieth Century Music.
		The assumption that the work of the early 20th Century masters was the next step forward in music’s progress was logical and rational.
		The rest of this article (polemic) is concerned with these composers and their unsung contribution to the only viable musical language that we have for this and the 21st Century.
	members.aol.com /aaocompose/20thCentury1.html (1324 words)

	HyperMusic -- History of Classical Music: 20th Century
		Music written since 1900 is called 20th century music.
		There have been more types and styles of music written in the 20th century then ever before.
		In the 20th century, the only limit is the composer's imagination.
	www.hypermusic.ca /hist/twentieth.html (142 words)

	A Comparison of Free Jazz to 20th-Century Classical Music
		Just as 20th-century classical music extends and separates itself from the tonal language of traditional classical music, so too free jazz "frees" itself from the conventions of functional tonality: "In traditional jazz, the primary purpose of the theme or tune is to provide a harmonic and metrical framework as a basis for improvisation.
		Complexity in classical music would eventually reach a point where it began extending the boundaries of its tonal language, as in Wagner's "Tristan," which delays resolution in the piece to an extent that no clear tonic is ever established, paving the way for gradual developments in the direction of atonality and the 12-tone system.
		Qualities of folk music are also present in 20th-century classical music as in that of Ligeti, in his use of Hungarian scales in his "Piano Concerto," and in the use of folkloric motifs in his "Violin Concerto," which employs stylized descending motifs of Hungarian music representing grief.
	ccrma-www.stanford.edu /~blackrse/freejazz.html (7368 words)

	LP Reissues: Living Presence 20th-Century Music Review By Leonard Norwitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While the title is apt, the music of Schuller and Fetler has little in common with that of the three titans of the New Vienna School--other than, in this context, its conductor and record label.
		In the first decades of the last century, Schoenberg and his disciples Berg and Webern were major players in the concert music tradition — and they still are.
		Typical of the century's best music, these works' emotion and drama, distilled to the smallest gesture, will not yield their secrets on first hearing.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /Magazine/music/0304/classical/livingpresence.htm (1371 words)

	The Modern/20th Centuary Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While some of the early 20th century music can be seen as extensions of the late Romantic style, much of 20th century music can be seen as a rebellion.
		Twentieth century music is an era that is hard to define in terms of musical style.
		In 20th century musical styles traditional forms and structures were broken up and recreated or composed using non-Western musical techniques and abstract ideas.
	library.thinkquest.org /15413/history/history-mod.htm (338 words)

	History Detectives . Feature - 20th Century Music \| PBS
		For many, the 20th century was seen as "America's century." It was a century in which the United States' influence would be felt around the globe.
		As the century wore on, rhythm and blues boy bands such as New Edition (which could have stayed merely a bubblegum pop band of fl youth created for a mainly white audience) took control of their music and helped create the new jack swing movement.
		Rap music, with its semi-autobiographical lyrics and deep rhythms were just one more evolution in the blues tradition that had started at the beginning of the century, and one further, enormous transformation in the world of music created and nurtured in the African American community.
	www.pbs.org /opb/historydetectives/investigations/411_music_history.html (569 words)

	Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Music of the 20th Century
		Music in the twentieth century, then, does not draw on one central and contemporary tradition to the exclusion of foreign influence, but, rather, makes use of many much more individualistic origins and inspirations as its "tradition".
		As it related to music, the movement sought "to present the musical soul of the masses, of the great factories, of the railways, of the transatlantic liners, of the battleships, of the automobiles and airplanes.
		The German music critic and sociologist, Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), expressed Ives' frustration in a more formal manner: he developed the concept of 'negative dialectic', which, as far as music was concerned, meant that music must be difficult because the undemanding acted as a mass sedative, encouraging people not to think.
	www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory40.htm (10765 words)

	Essential Classical Music - Twentieth Century Music
		Here we present the most influential and radical music of the twentieth century as an introduction to the huge variety that is now available.
		His music was recognisibly American, and was instrumental in popularizing classical music in America.
		Inspired by the Book of Revelations and written while in a Nazi concentration camp, the Quartet for the End of Time is one of the icons of Twentieth Century music.
	www.good-music-guide.com /essential/twentieth.htm (354 words)

	Music History and Literature III - Music of the Twentieth Century
		Study of the composers and musical developments in European and American Art Music in the 20th century with an introduction to music from other world cultures.
		I know that you will hear new music for the next 5, 6, or 7 decades after completing this course, and you will be some of the musicians who will shape the way we listen to and appreciate music in the rest of this century.
		For this reason, I consider it important to aid you in the development of skills to help you assess the significance of music and composers, and the ability to be persuasive in presenting your opinions.
	www.public.coe.edu /~wcarson/listen.htm (2022 words)

	Sell Classical Music CDs, Classical Music DVDs, Classical Albums: 20th Century Music & more
		Your collection of Classical Music CDs, including 20th century music is of interest to us whether it is large and small.
		We generally pay up to $2 for strong-selling 20th Century Music Albums (more for certain rarities, less for weaker titles) in near-mint condition (unscratched and unscuffed).
		Our selection of 20th Century Music on Classical Music CDs and Classical albums are not limited to this list alone, there are many more 20th Century Music artists and labels that we currently stock.
	www.prex.com /sell-20century.html (480 words)

	MUHL578 - Music of the 20th Century
		This course presents "chief musical developments in Western Europe and the Americas from 1890 to the present" including a survey of genres (e.g.
		Music: Peter Maxwell Davies - "Country Dance" from Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969); Berio - "Black is the color" from Folk Songs (1964); Berio - Sinfonia, III In ruhig fliessende Bewegung (1966-68).
		The following musical excerpts are used in class by the instructor or serve as the basis for some of the assignments.
	www.usc.edu /dept/polish_music/harley/578.html (2771 words)

	Modern Music
		century is largely one of exploration and experiment, leading to a fascinating variety of new trends, new techniques and, in some cases, entirely new sounds – all of which make this one of the more exciting periods in the history of music.
		Some have continued to compose in what is basically a warm Romantic style while injecting a degree of dissonance and rhythmic vitality which clearly marks their music as belonging to the 20
		Bar-lines were also displaced in the music to create a syncopated feel.
	members.tripod.com /historymusic/modern.html (352 words)

	Quotations on 20th Century Music
		Quotations on 20th Century music by 20th Century Composers
		But the most nearly perfect musical machine, a Stradivarius as well as an electronic synthesizer, is useless until joined to a man with musical skill and imagination.
		Good music and bad music will be composed by electronic means, just as good and bad music have been composed for instruments.
	members.aol.com /luv2talk49/quotations.html (277 words)

	20th-Century Harpsichord Music
		The harpsichord is an unusual instrument for 20th-century music.
		One such is a Swiss site by the Swiss Music Information Center on native contemporary composers, with a whole page devoted to composition for harpsichord (after entering the site by choosing a language, click on "Scores", then on "keyboard instruments" under "Single Instruments", then "Harpsichord").
		The score called for seven harpsichords playing randomly-processed Mozart as well as music by other composers, fifty-one tapes of computer-generated sounds, approximately 5,000 slides of abstract designs and space-exploration, and several films, all of which were performed or presented simultaneously in an asynchronous and exuberant anarchy of activity.
	home.comcast.net /~schmidtpeter/Music/harpsichord.html (832 words)

	BUBL LINK: Twentieth century music
		Dedicated to Hungarian music, both classical and jazz, with lists of composers, orchestras and groups, biographies and discographies, and details of festivals and concerts.
		Article on the development of art music in Finland covering the nature of Finnish music, the Kalevala as a source of inspiration, and the movement from a golden age to conservatism.
		Publisher's list of 20th Century British music with pages for individual composers including biographies, work lists with full details of scorings, and programme notes.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/t/twentiethcenturymusic.htm (498 words)

	Premiere Music Distributors - 20th Century Music Period
		With the beginning of the 20th century, a bigger gap develops between "art" or "classical" music, and "popular"
		The Romantic Music Period evolves in a number of different directions: Impressionism (Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, Satie); Nationalism (Grieg, Sibelius, Elgar, Vaughn-Williams, Kodaly, Bartok); Verismo (Puccini, Leoncavallo, Mascagni); Atonality (Schoenberg, Berg).
		There are many overlaps between Modern Period and 20th Century Period.
	www.premieremusic.net /period/cen.php (110 words)

	A History of 20th Century Popular Music
		In this section we're looking at how music changed from the 40's to the turn of the last Century.
		On the menu to the right you'll find links to stories about how music has developed, who were the most popular bands and artists, and much more.
		So, if you were one of those kids who used to sit glued to the TV on a Thursday night wondering who was going to be on Top of the Pops this week, drooling over Pan's People possibly, or swooning over David Cassidy, this is the place for you.
	www.wwwk.co.uk /music/index.htm (441 words)

	Cool Hunting: The Musical Underground
		So, Prince is at the point where the pop, rock and funk lines cross-over, while DJ Shadow occupies the intersection of hip-hop, soul and avant-garde.
		William—an Englishman (1918) is the timeless tale of a working-class couple torn apart by the Great War in the early 20th century.
		The music covered invariably forms my personal soundtrack for months to come.
	www.coolhunting.com /archives/2006/02/the_musical_und.php (843 words)

	20th Century Music:
		and harmony and the 20th century works sounded vile to
		to whatever music that was played to them and reserve their
		of 20th century when we are still living in it and therefore,
	library.thinkquest.org /27927/20%20century_Intro.htm (335 words)

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