20th Century Nationalism in Europe

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20th Century Nationalism in Europe

• Bartok, Kodály (Hungary)
• Songs of native Hungary with main currentof
  European music
• Les Six (France)
• Objectivity and understatement with New
  Classicism
• Milhaud, Tailleferre, Poulenc
• Russian School
• Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev
• English School
• Elgar, Vaughan Williams
• German School
• Hindemith, Orff, Weill

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Bela Bartók (1881-1945)

• Report on Bela Bartók by Beth Harper

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Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra

• For BSO
• Treats single orchestral instruments in soloistic
  manner
• 5 movements
• 4th movement
• Pentatonic structure
• Non symetrical rhythms
• Composers love for his homeland

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Late 19thC and Early 20thC America

• Shape note singing
• Stephen Foster (1826-64)
• Lyrical ballads - simple music
• Concert bands
• Adolphe Sax (Belgian)
• John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
• Charles Ives (1874-1954)
• Business man - composer on the side
• One of the most original

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

• Boulanger
• Used jazz idioms
• Use of American folk tunes
• Simplify music - communicate to a large public -
  technology

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Copland - Billy the Kidd

• Story of William Bonney
• Ballet - concert suite
• Used many tunes from the Wild West
• Polyrhythms, polytonal harmony, dissonance
• Scene 1 - Street in a Frontier Town