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Great Music of the 20th Century

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<p><span>Travel into the lives of the great 20th-century composers and immerse yourself in the era’s sublime musical masterworks.</span></p>

Syllabus

  • 01: 20th-Century Music: Be Afraid No Longer!
  • 02: Setting the Table and Parsing Out Blame
  • 03: Debussy and le français in Musical Action
  • 04: Russia and Igor Stravinsky
  • 05: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
  • 06: The Paradox of Arnold Schoenberg
  • 07: The Emancipation of Melody!
  • 08: The Second Viennese School
  • 09: The “New” Classicism
  • 10: Schoenberg and the 12-Tone Method
  • 11: Synthesis and Nationalism: Béla Bartók
  • 12: America’s Musical Gift
  • 13: American Iconoclasts
  • 14: The World Turned Upside Down
  • 15: Electronic Music and European Ultraserialism
  • 16: Schoenberg in Exile
  • 17: Stravinsky in America
  • 18: For Every Action an Equal Reaction
  • 19: The California Avant-Garde
  • 20: Rock around the Clock
  • 21: East Meets West; South Meets North
  • 22: Postmodernism: New Tonality and Eclecticism
  • 23: The New Pluralism
  • 24: Among Friends
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Robert Greenberg

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