Modern Period
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Music, Theatre, Dance, Visual Art
Scott Joplin
Pianist- Ragtime Music
“Maple Leaf Rag”
Arnold Schoenberg
12-tone music, atonal music
Igor Stravinsky
Russian, Modern Period’s comparison to Bach or Beethoven
The Firebird, Orpheus, The Rite of Spring
Aaron Copeland
Music based from American Folk Songs
Rodeo- The “beef” song
Shaker Variations- “A Gift to be Simple”
Duke Ellington
Jazz composer, performer, and band leader
Caravan
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Broadway composer & lyricist
Carousel, Sound of Music, The King & I, South Pacific
Leonard Bernstein
Composer, Conductor
West Side Story
Changes in technology
Music can be recorded and
reproduced in audio media
▪ Evolution from the phonograph
(record player) to modern MP3
format.
Electronic music
▪ Amplification used to enhance
sound in performance
▪ Electronic instrumentation
▪ Computer generated music
Art vs. Popular
Art music is becoming more
Increased communication
▪ Music heard through radio &
performances seen through
Television.
and more abstract
Previous period forms are still
being explored and modified
New technologies &
instruments increase
possibilities and range of music
created
Popular music is more
accessible to a wider audience
due to recorded media, radio,
and television
Genres such as Jazz, Rock,
Blues, & Country become
widely acceptable forms of
marketable music.
THE BROADWAY MUSICAL!!!!
American creation and combination of music & drama.
New York City, New York, USA
Differs from opera
▪ Performed in English
▪ Not entire performance is sung
Famous Composers/ playwrights
▪ Rodgers & Hammerstein
▪ See previous slide for works examples
▪ Stephen Sondheim
▪ Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods
▪ Andrew Lloyd Webber
▪ The Phantom of the Opera, Cats
Modern Dance
Break from Ballet format in order to allow more expressive
movement
Choreography becomes more important in story telling
Isadora Duncan- Founder of Modern Dance
Tap Dance
Dance in which rhythms are accent with foot movements
Fred Astaire
▪ MGM actor, singer, dancer- “The triple threat”
▪ Most actors of the early 1900s were expected to be able to have all three
talents
▪ Famous partner- Ginger Rogers
▪ Watch an example of his dancing▪ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxPgplMujzQ
Salvador Dali
The Persistance of Memory
Andy Warhol
Marilyn Monroe
Jackson Pollock
Lavender Mist
Fauvism
Began in 1905- predominantly French Artists
Characterized by use of bright, nonneutral colors, bold lines & simple forms
Henri Matisse
Surrealism
Movement that used fantastic images & strange juxtapositions to represent
unconscious thoughts & dreams
Salvador Dali
Abstract
Pablo Picasso
Art that represents reality NOT as we see it, very strong use of colors & lines
to define subjects
Art Deco
Popular in the early 20th century
Defined by stylized forms & geometric shapes
Used in Architecture, fashion, painting, and film
Easy for mass production