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Explain how progressive modern music sounds different from music of the “common practice era.” Identify the historical and ideological changes that caused the stylistic upheaval of modernism. Identify key stylistic attributes of twentieth-century modernist music.
- Germany
- Russia
- France
- Latin America
- Peripheries of Europe
- United States
One often thinks that the idea of the modern has nothing to do with national culture, but the fact is that, when Schoenberg had invented the row technique and serial music, he did not say that he had created a new grammar of music, but that he had saved the leading position of German music in the world. However, in principle, the modern had emerged...
In Russia, the modern emerged from the basis of symbolism; Scriabin was a real inventor who had created his own tonal system from intervals of fourth and its aesthetic program with his doctrine of pleroma. In Russia, symbolism was followed by formalism, which laid the intellectual basis for modernism in the arts. It had as its concepts the estrange...
In France, the birth of the modern can be followed as liberation from academic late romantic and realistic art. The central episteme was jeu, a kind of French counterpart to the German Schein. A dense series of -isms emerged as consecutive negations of each other. It was impossible to know who was the most modern. In Proust’s novel, Madame de Cambr...
In Latin America, whose music was to a great extent a distant continuation of Paris, the spiritual capital of this continent, modernism emerged as a negation of colonized imagination. The conventional composing models, which had been imported from Europe, were questioned through an original combination in which new composing technics, fauvism and d...
In the peripheries of Europe, radical experiments were done but, as congenial as they may have been, they had difficulties to be heard in the centres exercising the decision power on culture. The speech melody theory of Janáček was such an invention of a new tonal language; he was the Jankélévitch’s inventeur. Sibelius wanted to be that in the cont...
The proper contribution of American modernism has been the minimalism, whose anti-narrative art has also burst out from another ground, as in the Baltic countries and Finland (Pärt, Vasks, Kutavičius, Salmenhaara). Its background was not so much the idea of the development of musical materials i.e., those slow gradual growth processes in Reich and ...
- Eero Tarasti
- eero.tarasti@helsinki.fi
Avant garde music refers to compositions that are innovative, experimental and generally buck the trend of what is considered the norm – even going as far as to challenge or shock an audience. As such, what is thought of as avant garde is likely to change over time.
In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and ...
- c. 1730-1820
- c. 1400-1600
- c. 500-1400
Feb 13, 2017 · Recent examples of “literature in music” include: David J. Code, “Hearing Debussy Reading Mallarmé: Music après Wagner in the Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 54/3 (Fall 2001), 493–554; Laura Moore Pruett, “‘Mon Triste Voyage’: Sentimentality and Autobiography in ...
- Michael Allis
- 2017
Neo-progressive rock is a subgenre of progressive rock that emerged in the 1980s, characterized by its emphasis on melodic songwriting, lyrical themes that explore personal and social issues, and a return to the virtuosic instrumental performances typical of earlier progressive rock.
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Mar 29, 2018 · I will consider here two prime examples: pop music and television. POSTMODERN POP MUSIC As Frith and Home point out in Art into Pop (1987), ‘Pop songs are the soundtrack of postmodern daily life, inescapable in lifts and airports, pubs and restaurants, streets and shopping centres and sports grounds’.
