New styles in the start of the 20th century

20th century music would not have been developed if not for the musical genius individual composers such as:

It is a French movement in the late 19th and early 20th century

Composers of impressionism

He was the primary exponent of the impressionist movement and the focal point for other impressionist composers

He changed the course of musical development by dissolving traditional rules and conventions into a new language of possibilities in harmony, rhythm, form texture, and color

He was born in St. Germain-en-Laye in France on August 22, 1862

His early musical talents were channeled into piano lessons

Claude Debussy place of birth

Claude Debussy birthdate

How many compositions does Claude Debussy have

Father of the modern school of composition

Claude Debussy's works

Maurice Ravel's real name

Maurice Ravel was born in?

When did Claude Debussy died?

He died on March 25, 1918 due to cancer during 1st world war

He entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of 14 where he studied with the eminent French composer Gabriel Faure

His works are defined with intricate and sometimes modal melodies and extended chordal components

A person who is exemplary in musical technique or execution

Works of Maurice Ravel

It is known as the tone color or tone quality

It is an attempt not to depict reality, but to merely suggest it

It was originally used in visual and literary arts.

It was probably first applied to music in 1918, especially to Schoenberg because, like the painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), he veered away from "traditional forms of beauty" to convery powerful feelings in his music

It is the quality of sounds that seems unstable

Composers of expressionism

He was born on September 13, 1874 in a working-class suburb of Vienna, Austria

Arnold Schoenberg birthdate

Arnold Schoenberg birthplace

He taught himself music theory but took lessons in counterpoint

Arnold Schoenberg's works

It is a concert of the Wiener Konzertverein

He experienced Triskaidekaphobia and died on July 13, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, the USA, where he had settled since 1934

Fear of number 13

When did Arnold Schoenberg died?

Where did Arnold Schoenberg settled since 1934

He is born in Lomonosov, Russia on June 17, 1882

Birthplace of Igor Stravinsky

Birthdate of Igor Stravinsky

In his early music, he reflected the influence of his teacher, the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Igor Stravinsky's first notable composition

Works of Igor Stravinsky

How many compositions did Igor Stravinsky wrote

When did Igor Stravinsky died

Where did Igor Stravinsky died

It made use of the whole-tone scale

It also applied suggested, rather than depicted, reality

It created a mood rather than a definite picture

It had a translucent and hazy texture; lacking a dominant-tonic relationship

It made use of overlapping chords, with 4th, 5th, octaves and 9th intervals, resulting in a non-traditional harmonic order and resolution

It reveals the composer's mind, instead of presenting an impression of the environment

It uses atonality and the twelve-tone scale, lacking stable and conventional harmonies

It served as a medium for expressing strong emotions, such as anxiety, rage and alienation

It was a partial return to a classical form of writing music with carefully modulated dissonances

It made use of a freer seven-note diatonic scale

This style was associated with electronic music and dealt with the parameters or dimensions of sound in space

It made use of variations of self-contained note groups to change musical continuity, and improvisation, with an absence of traditional rules on harmony, melody, and rhythm

It is a looser form of 20th century music develoent focused on nationalist composers and musical innovators who sought to combine modern techniques with folk materials

Other 20th Century Musical Styles

It is the ability of electronic machines such as synthesizers, amplifiers, tape recorders, and loudspeakers to produce different sounds

Concrete music or ?

It is a music that uses the tape recorder

He was born on December 22, 1883

He is considered as Frenchborn composer

He pioneered and created new sounds that bordered between music and noise and spent his life and career mostly in the United States

Certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together in order to capture a whole new definition of sound

He is considered as Father of Electronic Music and use of new instruments and electronic resources

He was also dubbed as the Stratospheric Colossus of Sound

When did Edgard Varese died

He is a central figure in the realm of electronic music

Where is Karlheinz Stockhausen born

He had the opportunity to work with Messiaen, Schoenberg, and Webern

His music was initially met with resistance due to its heavily atonal content with practically no clear melodic or rhythmic sense

Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen

How many total works of Karlheinz Stockhausen are there

Also known as Aleatoric music

It refers to a style in which the piece always sounds differently at every performance because of the random techniques of production, including the use of ring modulators or natural elements that become a part of the music

Composers of electronic music

Composer of chance music

He was known as one of the 20th century composers with the broadcast array of sounds in his works.

Where is John Cage born

When is John Cage born

He became one of the most original composers in the history of western music

In one instance, he created a "prepared" piano, where screew and pieces of wood or paper were inserted between the piano strings to produce different percussive possibilities

Cage became notable for his work _________

It is a chance musical work that instructed the pianist to merely open the piano lid and remain silent for the length of time indicated by the title