20th century music
- Created by: JackInTheBox321
- Created on: 27-05-15 19:03
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- 20th Century
- Features
- A high level of dissonance
- Extreme contrasts of dynamics
- Constantly changing textures
- ‘Distorted’ melodies and harmonies
- Angular melodies with wide leaps
- Layered textures
- Instruments
- New ways of using of using old instruments
- Tapping the instrument with the bow or using sticks and brushes
- Synthesisers/ Digital music
- Strange combinations of instruments
- New ways of using of using old instruments
- Froms
- Expressionism
- A high level of dissonance
- Extreme contrasts of dynamics
- Constantly changing textures
- ‘Distorted’ melodies and harmonies
- Angular melodies with wide leaps
- Minimalism
- Layers of ostinati
- Constantly repeated patterns that are subjected to gradual changes
- Layered textures
- Interlocking repeated phrases and rhythms
- Diatonic harmony
- Expressionism
- Notable Composers
- John Cage
- Construction in Metal
- 4'33
- Music of Changes
- Benjamin Britten
- The Turn of the Screw
- War Requiem
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Leonard Bernstein
- On the Town
- West Side Story
- Symphony No. 1
- John Cage
- Features
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