The document discusses 20th century music and provides historical context. It summarizes major events of the 20th century like the World Wars, civil rights movements, and technological advances. It then lists famous people from the era and influential artists/composers like Picasso, Stravinsky, and Cage. The document characterizes 20th century music as breaking rules and looking toward the future. It outlines different styles that emerged such as serialism, minimalism, and electronic music. Finally, it highlights Stravinsky's Rite of Spring as one of the most important compositions of the 20th century.

1. 20th Century Music
A search for the meaning of music
Copyright © 2005 - Frankel Consulting Services, Inc.

2. What is music?

3. What happened during the
20th Century?
• World War I
• Communism
• Capitalism
• Women’s Rights
• The Great Depression
• Television
• World War II -
Holocaust
• The Atomic Bomb
• The Cold War
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Korean War
• Kennedy Assassination
• Space Exploration
• Civil Rights - Martin Luther
King Jr.
• The Vietnam War
• Man on the Moon
• Watergate
• Iran Hostage Crisis
• Personal Computers
• Gulf War
• Internet
• Fall of Communism

4. Famous People from the
20th Century
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Adolph Hitler
• Neil Armstrong
• Vladimir Lenin
• Joseph Stalin
• Mother Theresa
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Winston Churchill
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• John F. Kennedy
• Nelson Mandela
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Margaret Thatcher
• Ernest Hemingway
• Pablo Picasso
• Fidel Castro
• Nikita Kruschev
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Ronald Reagan
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Walt Disney
• Elvis Presley
• The Beatles
• Charles Dickens
• Marilyn Monroe

6. Famous Artists of the
20th Century

7. Pablo Picasso

8. Jackson Pollack

9. Henri Matisse

10. Salvador Dali

11. Andy Warhol

12. Wassily Kandinsky

13. Piet Mondrian

14. Georgia O’Keefe

15. Rene Magritte

16. Characteristics of 20th
Century Music
•Break every existing rule
•Challenge the ear
•Challenge the mind
•Respect the past - look toward the future
•If it doesn’t work - copy the past

17. Styles of Music during the
20th Century
• Late Romantic
• Avant-garde
• Impressionist
• Polytonal
• Neo-Classical
• Serialism
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism
• Chance Music
• Electronic

18. 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?

19. Famous Composers of the
20th Century
• Igor Stravinsky
• Claude Debussy
• Arnold Schoenberg
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Philip Glass
• Steve Reich
• John Cage
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Vincent Persechetti
• Aaron Copland
• Leonard Bernstein
• Bela Bartok
• Alban Berg
• Milton Babbitt
• Sergei Rachmaninov
• George Crumb
• Charles Ives
• Edgard Varese

21. We will now listen to what
music historians feel is the
single most important
composition of the 20th
Century
Igor Stravinsky’s
Le Sacre du Printemps
The Rite of Spring
Premiered in Paris in 1913