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Dec 22, 2024
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ARFA 836 - Music in the Modern Era3 credits
Musically, The Modern Era extends from approximately 1900 to the present. In the course of the past 125 years, music has gone through many phases in both the concert and popular areas. In the concert world, composers have explored new ideas, theories, sounds and styles. Among the many composers whose music remains at the forefront of modern compositional trends are Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Aaron Copland, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Francis Poulenc, Paul Hindemith, Charles Ives, and others. In the popular music world, the 20th century saw the development of jazz in many styles – ragtime, Dixieland, hot jazz, swing, bebop, cool. The Broadway Musical grew from roots in operetta and vaudeville to become one of the world’s dominant musical theater formats through the work of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, and Stephen Sondheim. The growth of broadcasting and recording led to the success of pop music genres such as country music, rock and roll, doo wop, hard rock, rap, hip-hop, bluegrass, and folk revival. Working in both popular and concert worlds were composers like George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. The course would explore the many varieties of both concert and popular music that defined the twentieth century and continue to define music and entertainment in the twenty-first century.
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