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 20th century classical music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Classical music also had an intense cross fertilization with jazz, with several composers being able to work in both genres, including George Gershwin.
An important feature of 20th century concert music is the existence of the splitting of the audience into traditional and avant-garde, with many figures prominent in one world considered minor or unacceptable in the other.
Amadeo Roldán brought music written specifically for percussion ensemble into the classical tradition; he was soon followed by Varèse and then others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Modern_Classical_Music   (2879 words)

  
 Babel: Roundtable: May 1999: The State of Classical Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Music is really only "sold" to people who have participated in it in some way at some point in their lives.
In classical music, where the issue was once primarily one of shared intimacy of the musical experience, and spiritual or intellectual contemplation, today what matters, it seems, is the fame of the performer.
Their interest in classical music was ephemeral, spurred on only by his illness and fame, like some sort of carnival act.
towerofbabel.com /roundtable/classicalmusic/discussion   (7804 words)

  
 ipedia.com: 20th century classical music Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mediæval Renaissance Baroque Classical Romantic 20th Century Contemporary 20th century classical music was extremely diverse, ranging from the...
20th century classical music was extremely diverse, ranging from the late Romantic style of Sergei Rachmaninov to the complete serialism of Pierre Boulez, and from the simple triadic harmonies of minimalist composers such as Philip Glass to the musique concrète of Pierre Schaeffer and the microtonal music adopted by Harry Partch, Alois Haba and others.
Sometimes such electronic music was combined with more conventional instruments, Stockhausen's Hymnen and Edgar Varèse's Déserts offering two examples (although Déserts is sometimes performed today without the tape part).
www.ipedia.com /20th_century_classical_music.html   (2597 words)

  
 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Maurice Ravel
Find the music of Maurice Ravel in the Archives.
By 1895 he had already developed a personal style of comp., but his unconventional harmonies offended academic ears in spite of the classical basis of his work.
He had more respect for classical forms than Debussy and was nearer to the ethos of Saint-Saëns than to that of Massenet.
www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/ravel.html   (839 words)

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