2. ALTERNATIVES TO MODERNISM
ο‘ Look back in your notes, what was the alternative to
modernism in at the beginning of Unit V?
ο‘ Hint: Modernism and _____________
ο‘ Hint (last): Some of you created some propaganda for thisβ¦
ο‘ What do you expect it to sound like?
4. MODERNISM: A HIT?
ο‘ If someone was going to perform Schoenbergβs Pierrot
Lunaire at St. Wenceslas Friday night, would you (raise of
hands):
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Go to see if for $100 a ticket?
$20 a ticket?
$5 a ticket?
Free?!
ο‘ ββ¦much modernist music played to a small, esoteric audience
(Kerman, 349).β
ο§ Esoteric-intended for or likely to be understood by only a small
number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.
ο§ Can you blame them?
5. TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRADITIONALISM
ο‘ Read Pg. 249 Paragraph 1
ο‘ βBut other impressive composers, both here and abroad,
developed a more ambivalent attitude toward modernism...
Some famous twentieth-century names never joined the
Avant-Garde [remember what that means??!!] at all, and kept
on mining the reliable quarries of Romanticism for their own
private seams of (they hoped) musical gold (Kerman, 349).β
ο§ Ambivalent-having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about
something or someone.
ο‘ Read paragraph 2.
ο‘ Does that make sense?
6. TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRADITIONALISM
(CONT.)
ο‘ ββ¦there is no question that some of the best -and most
popular-music of the early twentieth century was written by
composers who never called themselves modernists (Kerman,
349)β¦β
ο‘ Important idea: There is more to twentieth century music than
Shoenberg!