20th Century MusicA search for the meaning of musicCopyright 2005 - Frankel Consulting Services, Inc.

What is music?

What happened during the 20th Century?World War ICommunismCapitalismWomens RightsThe Great DepressionTelevisionWorld War II - HolocaustThe Atomic BombThe Cold WarCuban Missile CrisisThe Korean War

Kennedy AssassinationSpace ExplorationCivil Rights - Martin Luther King Jr.The Vietnam WarMan on the MoonWatergateIran Hostage CrisisPersonal ComputersGulf WarInternetFall of Communism

Famous People from the 20th CenturyMahatma GandhiAdolph HitlerNeil ArmstrongVladimir LeninJoseph StalinMother TheresaFranklin D. RooseveltWinston ChurchillMartin Luther King Jr.John F. KennedyNelson MandelaFrank Lloyd WrightMargaret Thatcher

Ernest HemingwayPablo PicassoFidel CastroNikita KruschevMikhail GorbachevRonald ReaganTheodore RooseveltWalt DisneyElvis PresleyThe BeatlesCharles DickensMarilyn Monroe

Famous Artists of the 20th Century

Pablo Picasso

Jackson Pollack

Henri Matisse

Salvador Dali

Andy Warhol

Wassily Kandinsky

Piet Mondrian

Georgia OKeefe

Rene Magritte

Characteristics of 20th Century MusicBreak every existing ruleChallenge the earChallenge the mindRespect the past - look toward the futureIf it doesnt work - copy the past

Styles of Music during the20th CenturyLate RomanticAvant-gardeImpressionistPolytonalNeo-ClassicalSerialismMinimalismExperimentalismChance MusicElectronic

It is important to note the vast amount of different styles and composers from this era of music history.

Why do you think there are so many in such a relatively short period of time?

Famous Composers of the 20th CenturyIgor StravinskyClaude DebussyArnold SchoenbergDmitri ShostakovichPhilip GlassSteve ReichJohn CageKarlheinz StockhausenVincent Persechetti

Aaron CoplandLeonard BernsteinBela BartokAlban BergMilton BabbittSergei RachmaninovGeorge CrumbCharles IvesEdgard Varese