Musical Style of

the 20th Century

Music
Arrange the letters to get the right
answer:
1. Musical style that revealed the
composer’s mind, instead of
presenting an impression of the
environment.
MSINOISSERPXE
2. Musical style uses a whole-tone
scale. It also applied suggested,
rather than depicted, reality. It
created a mood rather than a
definite picture.
MSINOISSERPMI
3. Musical style associated with
electronic music and dealt with
the parameters or dimensions
of sound in space.
TAVANDEGARCUMIS
4. The looser form of the 20th
century music development
focused on nationalist composers
and musical innovators who sought
to combine modern techniques
with folk materials.
NREDOMMSILANOITAN
5. It was a partial return to a
classical form of writing music
with carefully modulated
dissonances.
ONEMISSICCAL
20th Century Famous
Composers and their
Distinctive Styles
1.SERGEI PROKOFIEFF – his
style is uniquely recognizable
for its progressive technique,
pulsating rhythms, melodic
directions, and a resolving
dissonance.
2. FRANCIS POULENC – one of
the members of “LesSix” known
as a young French composer. His
compositions have a coolly
elegant modernity, tempered by
a classical sense of proportion.
3. GEORGE GERSHWIN – also a
member of “Les Six”. He is the
“Father of American Jazz”. His
mixture of primitive and
sophisticated gave his music an
appeal that has lasted long after
his death.
4. LEONARD BERNSTEIN - his philosophy
was the universal language of music
basically rooted in tonality. Although
he never relinquished his musical
values as a composer, he later turned
to conducting and lecturing in order to
safeguard as to what he believed.
5. PHILIP GLASS – his distinct style
involves cell-like phrases
emanating from bright electronic
sounds from the keyboard that
progressed very slowly from the
pattern to the next in a very
repetitious fashion.
 Sergei Prokofieff -
Dance of the Knights
 Francis Poulenc –
Concerto in two pianos
George Gershwin –
Rhapsody in Blue
Leonard Bernstein –
West Side Story
Philip Glass – Einstein
on the beach