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Great Music of the 20th Century

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English
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18 hours 12 minutes
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Self-Paced
Level

Intermediate

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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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