DIFFERENT MUSIC
STYLES AND GENRES
BY LOKI NATHAN
20th
CENTURY
MUSIC
What Is This?
• 20th-century classical music is art music
that was written between the years
1901 and 2000, inclusive. Musical style
diverged during the 20th century as it
never had previously, so this century
was without a dominant style.
• The 20th century is described as the
“age of musical diversity”
because composers had more creative
freedom. Composers were more willing
to experiment with new music forms or
reinvent music forms of the past. They
also took advantage of the resources
and technology that were available to
them.
Characteristics
• Orchestras-Orchestras still continued to be the most popular choice for
20th-century composers to display their work. The saxophone and a large
percussion section were now included regularly, and the demands placed
on musicians by composers became even greater. Composers became
more adventurous during this time, resulting in creating soundscapes for
orchestras.
• Serialism-One of the greatest musical developments was the dissolving of
tonality and the dismissal of the system of keys for serialism. Arnold
Schoenberg was frustrated at no longer creating the music he desired,
and so created a twelve-tone system that gave each note equality in the
chromatic scale. More dissonance was created from this, and a revolution
of music began.
• Minimalism-Although many of the time’s musical developments were
complex and experimental, the minimalist style of composition became
very popular with both composers and audiences. It was the complete
opposite of many other styles of the time, inspired by Bali and Java’s
music in Indonesia and the Gamelan. The minimalist style uses ostinati,
which are repeating patterns of melody or rhythm. In turn, combining
new instruments and ways of using the voice, enabled composers and
instrumentalists to create a new sound that had never been heard before.
• Futurism-By trying to recreate normal
sounds that we hear and include in our
everyday lives, Francesco Balilla Pratella
and Luigi Russolo created the realm of
Futurism in music and placed these
familiar sounds into a different context.
Many other composers and their works
developed because of Futurism, and the
introduction of microtones became
common in compositions.
Composers
• Leonard Bernstein(1918-1990)
• Igor Stravinsky(1882-1971)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams(1872-1958)
• Dmitri Shostakovotich(1906-1975)
• Edward Elgar(1857-1934)
• Lili Boulanger(1893-1918)
• Benjamin Britten(1913-1976)
• Philip Glass
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Famous Pieces Of The Time
• The rite of spring-igor stravinsky
• The firebird-igor stravinsky
• Porgy and bess-george garshawin
Romantic Music
What Is This?
• Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical
music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly
referred to as the Romantic era.
• Musical Romanticism was marked by emphasis on originality
and individuality, personal emotional expression, and freedom
and experimentation of form.
• Its parent genre was classical music
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Characteristics
• Different from the music of the Classical period, Romantic music involved freedom, emotion, and expression.
The following reflect some of the characteristics of Romantic music:
Unstructured
Passionate and full of energy
Long melodies
Dynamic instrumentation
Dramatic
Nationalistic undertones
• The Romantics can be divided into the categories of full, conservative, and regional. Full Romantics
abandoned the structure of the Classical period and embraced freedom fully. Conservatives, on the other
hand, held on to certain structural aspects of Classical music, like Brahms or Beethoven. Regional Romantics
embraced the forms of the Romantic movement but added their own folk or native flavors. Tchaikovsky,
composing in Russia, was a regional Romantic composer.
Composers
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Richard Wagner
• Franz Lizst
• Giuseppe Verdi
• Robert Schumann
• Fanny Mendelsohn
• Hector Berlioz
• Ludwig van Beethoven
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Famous Pieces
• Piano Concerto No.1- Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky
• Salut d'Amor- Edward Elgar
• Piano Sonata in B minor- Franz Lizst
• Symphony No.9- Ludwig van Beethoven
• Symphony No.5- Ludwig van Beethoven
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THANK YOU
PRESENTATION BY LOKI
