Twentieth Century Composers

We know more about musical culture in the twentieth century than in any other period. The new technologies of sound recoding, photography, film, television, and computers have preserved and made available every kind of music-making from almost every nation and social group, giving us a more complete picture than for earlier times, when music survived only in notation.

The music from the twentieth century was also more diverse than in previous generations. Throughout each decade, musicians reexamined their basic assumptions about music and created new works that did astonishing things. New traditions emerged such as jazz, musicals, rock, rap, and other types of popular  music. In the classical realm, some composers continued to write tonal music, while others devised new systems of organizing pitch, such as atonality, polytonality, neotonality, and twelve-tone methods.
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As a result of this quest, you will become acquainted with the lives and music of some outstanding composers of the 20th century. Throughout this assignment, you will learn the composers' musical achievements,  listen to their music, and find out some significant facts about their lives.


Enjoy and have an excellent musical learning experience!