This year, a spotlight will be shone on the work of two composers with diametrically opposite styles and attitudes ...

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Ludwig: Oh. Vhat’s so special about the 20th Century then? Naomi: The music! It was full of extremes and experimenting with sounds. The most important theme of the this period was the idea of ...

From the harmonies and impressionistic sparkle of the French school to the avant-garde of the Viennese school and all the way across to the rhythmic vitality of the Russian school, the early twentieth ...

In the 20th century, composers thought about different ... some composers wrote music that included microtones - intervals smaller than a semitone. The sound came across to the listener as dissonance.

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements ... The improvisational music that results has a syncopated rhythm, and ...

In 1985, he produced the "We Are The World" session, arguably the apex of 1980s pop music. Jones, who in 1968 became the ...

Music in the 20th Century changed dramatically, due to the hostile political climate, advances in technology, and huge shifts in style. Many composers, struggling to build any further on the music of ...