Open AccessKrótki wykład o muzyce XX wieku. Kompendium dydaktyczne / A Short Lecture on Twentieth-Century Music. A Teaching Compendium
Author(s) -
Tomasz Jasiński
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
annales universitatis mariae curie-skłodowska. sectio l, artes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2083-3636
pISSN - 1732-1352
DOI - 10.1515/umcsart-2015-0002
Subject(s) - music history , compendium , period (music) , music education , music , literature , the arts , incidental music , art , philosophy of music , presentation (obstetrics) , history , visual arts , aesthetics , archaeology , medicine , radiology
The article is a comprehensive presentation of the history of music in the twentieth century, taking into account the main trends and phenomena of this period, inter alia impressionism, expressionism, neoclassicism, dodecaphony, punctualism, and total serialism, then avant-garde solutions and pluralism after World War Two (inter alia electronic music, concrete music (musique concrète), graphic music, aleatoric music, open forms, instrumental theater, minimal music), and finally the most recent trends (e.g. spectral music, new complexity, polystylistics), including a clearly marked return to the Romantic tradition. The chronologically presented discourse includes opinions that concisely explain some compositional solutions, as well as the list of composers and the titles of their works that exemplifi ed the problems discussed. The paper ends with the thoughts on the future of music in the new, twenty-first century. The article is meant as teaching material for the arts and humanities programs.