20th century music 🎼

minimalism

  • employs limited or minimal music materials

characteristics of minimalism

  • primarily continuous in form

  • focusing on the internal processes of the music which lacks goals or motion or movement towards

  • steady pulses or drones , reiteration of smaller musical phrases / units

  • may include features such as addictive process and phrase shifting

composers of minimalism

  • la monte young

  • meredith monk

  • philip glass

  • terry riley

impressionism

  • a movement which focus on mood and emotions

  • it includes static harmony and emphasis on instrumental timbres which creates a shimmering interplay of colours

  • lacked strong rhythmic pulse

  • explores mood and atmosphere through the use of timbre , orchestration and progressive harmonic concepts

composers of impressionism

  • claude debussy

  • maurice ravel

  • ernest fanelli

  • frederick delius

atonal music

  • a genre of the 12th century which lacks a clear key/tonic

  • uses a 12 tone technique

composers of atonal music

  • bella bartok