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    The document discusses changes in music in the early 20th century. A fundamental break occurred after World War 1, with the emergence of new aesthetic forms based on new tonality and rhythm inspired by mathematics. Several French composers distinguished themselves during this period, including Ravel, Dukas, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky. Decisive innovation came from Austria through the work of Schoenberg and his pupils Berg and Webern. Schoenberg developed atonal and twelve-tone music in opposition to classical tonality. In Russia, composers like Shostakovich and Rachmaninov dominated.

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    The document discusses changes in music in the early 20th century. A fundamental break occurred after World War 1, with the emergence of new aesthetic forms based on new tonality and rhythm inspired by mathematics. Several French composers distinguished themselves during this period, including Ravel, Dukas, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky. Decisive innovation came from Austria through the work of Schoenberg and his pupils Berg and Webern. Schoenberg developed atonal and twelve-tone music in opposition to classical tonality. In Russia, composers like Shostakovich and Rachmaninov dominated.

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    ‭ he music of the early 20th century‬

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    ‭In the field of music too, the First World War marked a fundamental‬
    ‭a fundamental break. The breakdown of musical structures inherited from‬
    ‭century led to the emergence of a new aesthetic, based on the search for new forms of‬
    ‭new forms of tonality and rhythm, inspired by mathematical studies.‬
    ‭mathematical studies.‬

    ‭ 88 Part Two: Plus belle la vie: arts and literature Part Two: Plus belle la vie: arts and‬
    1
    ‭literature‬
    ‭In France‬
    ‭From the 1900s onwards, the emergence of far-reaching changes in musical forms‬
    ‭The emergence of profound changes in the way music was written suggested a new trend in‬
    ‭composition.‬
    ‭A number of French musicians, or those who were successful in France,‬
    ‭distinguished themselves during this period. Maurice Ravel (1875-1937),‬
    ‭considered a modern neo-classicist; Paul Dukas (1865-1935), whose Sorcerer's Apprentice‬
    ‭his Sorcerer's Apprentice made famous at an early age; Serguei Prokofiev (1891-1953),‬
    ‭who, with his Classical Symphony, also showed the way to neo-classicism,‬
    ‭No one thought to go further in modernism than Igor Stravinsky (1882-‬
    ‭1971) in The Rite of Spring (1913).‬
    ‭In Austria‬
    ‭It was from this country that the decisive innovation and upheaval in twentieth-century music‬
    ‭came.‬
    ‭century, through the work of Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) and his pupils‬
    ‭Alban Berg (1885-1935) and Anton Webern (1883-1945). In opposition to‬
    ‭the classical tonal composition of Western music, and influenced by‬
    ‭Indian music, Schönberg was inspired by the pictorial break with expressionism‬
    ‭and its non-figurative extension. He asserted the need for‬
    ‭atonal music, with tones no more bound by fixed relationships than shapes or colours.‬
    ‭or colours.‬
    ‭His personal development led him to create a twelve-tone system (dodecaphony)‬
    ‭twelve-tone system (dodecaphony), but the lack of elegance of his compositions, for an‬
    ‭uninformed public, earned him a wall of hostility and ridicule. His Pierrot‬
    ‭lunaire (1912) was perceived as a vast cacophony.‬
    ‭In Russia‬
    ‭Several remarkable composers dominated the music world:‬
    ‭At the age of twenty, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) wrote an exceptional First Symphony‬
    ‭symphony. Serge Rachmaninov (1873-1943) wrote four‬
    ‭Concertos for piano.‬

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