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Sergei Diaghilev

Ballets Russes, ballet company founded in Paris in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev. The original company included the choreographer Michel Fokine and the dancers Anna Pavlova and Vaslav Nijinsky; the choreographer George Balanchine joined in 1925.

Stravinsky’s compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913).

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What Is Twelve-Tone Serialism? Twelve-tone serialism is a serial technique that focuses on 12 notes on the chromatic scale. The twelve-tone technique was developed by twentieth-century composer Arnold Schoenberg, though medieval composers previously explored serial music and its elements.

Twelve-tone serialism first appeared in the 1920s, with antecedents predating that decade (instances of 12-note passages occur in Liszt’s Faust Symphony and in Bach.

The most prominent minimalist composers are John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and La Monte Young. Others who have been associated with this compositional approach include Michael Nyman, Howard Skempton, John White, Dave Smith and John Lewis, Michael Parsons.

The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any one note through the use of tone rows, orderings of the 12 pitch classes.

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer who created new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tone row. He was also an influential teacher; among his most significant pupils were Alban Berg and Anton Webern.

The basic premises of twelve-tone music are as follows:

• All twelve notes of the chromatic scale must occur.
• No note can be repeated in the series until the other 11 notes of the chromatic scale have occurred (exceptions include direct repetition of a note, trills, and tremolos)

The chromatic scale or twelve-tone scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone, also known as a half-step, above or below its adjacent pitches. As a result, in 12-tone equal temperament (the most common tuning in Western music), the chromatic scale covers all 12 of the available pitches.

The all-interval twelve-tone row is a tone row arranged so that it contains one instance of each interval within the octave, 0 through 11. The “total chromatic” (or “aggregate”) is the set of all twelve pitch classes. An “array” is a succession of aggregates. The term is also used to refer to lattices.

The basic order for any one composition came to be known as its basic set, its 12-tone row, or its 12-tone series, all of which terms are synonymous. The basic set for Schoenberg’s Wind Quintet (1924) is E♭–G–A–B–C♯–C–B♭–D–E–F♯–A♭–F; for his String Quartet No. 4 (1936) it is D–C♯–A–B♭–F–E♭–E–C–A♭–G–F♯–B.

Serialism

Create a Twelve-Tone Melody With a Twelve-Tone Matrix

1. Introduction: Create a Twelve-Tone Melody With a Twelve-Tone Matrix.
2. Step 1: Write Numbers in the Top Row.
3. Step 2: Populate the First Column.
4. Step 3: Fill in the Second Row.
5. Step 4: Fill in the Remaining Rows.
6. Step 5: Translate the Numbers to Pitches.
7. Step 6: Write Music!

Stravinsky’s professional life encompassed most of the 20th century, including many of its modern classical music styles, and he influenced composers both during and after his lifetime. In 1959, he was awarded the Sonning Award, Denmark’s highest musical honour.

His instrumental works of the early 1920s include the Octet for Wind Instruments (1923), Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (1924), Piano Sonata (1924), and the Serenade in A for piano (1925). These pieces combine a Neoclassical approach to style with what seems a self-conscious severity of line and texture.

a style of music of the 20th century which reveals the composer’s mind, instead of presenting an impression of the environment. a style of music in which the piece sounds different at every performance because of the random techniques of production.

Igor Stravinsky was important to music history because of the quantity of his compositions and his diverse style. Stravinsky was one of the greatest 20th century composers. He is important because he was a prolific composer and contributed ballets, symphonies, orchestral pieces, concertos, and more.

5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian (and later, a naturalized French and American) composer, pianist and conductor. He is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky’s compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity.

Styles

• Romantic style.
• Neoclassicism.
• Jazz-influenced classical composition.
• Impressionism.
• Modernism.
• Free dissonance and experimentalism.
• Expressionism.
• Postmodern music.

You Gotta Know These 20th-Century Composers

• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971).
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951).
• Benjamin Britten (1913–1976).
• Aaron Copland “COPE”-lund (1900–1990).
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953).
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975).
• Béla Bartók (1881–1945).
• Charles Ives (1874–1954).

Artists created vivid pictures, distorting colours and shapes to make unrealistic images that suggested strong emotions. Expressionist composers poured intense emotional expression into their music and explored the subconscious mind. a high level of dissonance.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Radio’s Most Played Songs Of All Time

• The Righteous Brothers – You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
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In short, the year 1945 was the most important year of the 20th century, because almost nothing before that era was the same as it was after that era….

• 1960s- First the music was the best and Beatlemania was a culture phenomena never seen before and never will again.
• 1950s- pretty much a precursor to the 1960s.

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