MODERN

PERIOD IN
WESTERN
MUSIC
BY: ANDRIAN R AS ONA &
REYNAL PE RE Z
MODERN
PERIOD IN
WESTERN
MJUSIC
> Lasted from approximately 1890 to 1945
MODERN PERIOD IN
WESTERN MUSIC
MODERNISM (ROMANTICISM)
> a historical time as wel as philosophical aesthetic.

MODERN
> means current or recent.

MODERNISM( IN MUSIC)
> forms of musical expression at the end of the 19th
and into the early 20th century.
THE SOUND OF MODERNISM RANGE
FROM;

WISTFUL BUCOLIC

BIZARRE JARRING.
From a historical perspective, the
sheer amount of death and
destruction during these 55 years
was unprecedented, and many in
the artistic world came to feel that
the old ways of representing the
human experience were no longer
qualified to handle this terrifying
new reality.
A
MODERNIST
COMPOSERS
> As the “avant-grande” or front-line troops working to
advance music through their sound experiments.

* Many of these composers experimented with musical sound

through timbers, rhythms, and tonality.
The unifying trais of musical
modernism was the rejection of
functonal tonality laid out by
Jean Philipe Rameau in his
1722 treatise.
* Composers at the end of the 19th century broke the
rules of tonal harmony to explore different sound colors,
new ways of organizing sound, polytonality, and even
pos-tonality.
FOUR STYLES
MODERNISM OF
IMPRESSIONISM
-was first recognized in french
painting through artist like Monet,
Manet, Degas, Cezanne, and
Regnault, whose works were seen
not so much as depicting the world
as it was, but representing an “
impression” of reality.