Atonality

Swing band arrangements were in large part composed, often of simple, repeated material, or “riffs,” that alternated between contrapuntal lines and intense unison rhythms. Improvisation also had a featured role, and soloists would play while the rest of the band, aside from the rhythm section, dropped out or played arranged background lines. POPULARITY OF SWING MUSIC One explanation for swing music’s popularity is that its driving intensity and abandon represented pleasure and freedom in a time when

deception of a generation who has no answers. It refuses the safe scheme of realist tradition offering an alternative object that doesn’t explain what it represents but hints another beauty and a different order for those who will never die. Postmodernist is a depthless response to the inevitable. It is not interested in offering solution because postmodernism doesn’t have any. It doesn’t solve the tragedy it takes it for granted, it has learnt how to live with natural disasters and the thread of

Claude Debussy once said, “works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.” No musical time period has seen, nor continues to see, so much change and innovation than the Modern period. Current artists express their own creative visions and use their ideas to suggest progressive directions for others to follow. The rejection and breakdown of all traditional guidelines unleashed complete freedom across present dimensions, including melody, rhythm, and chord progression. Some of the new music

In its current incarnation, the multidisciplinary art form of Experimental Music Theatre is relatively new in the art world. It encompasses a wide range of musical and theatrical forms and styles and is often presented in unconventional venues. Similar to Wagner’s notion of Gesamtkunstwerk, Experimental Music Theatre seeks to integrate all the arts to create one complete art form. For Wagner, this ideal materialized in his Operas, which he labelled music dramas. However, in contrast to Wagner’s dramas

We are half way through the module on Literary Criticism and I hope you are enjoying learning about certain methods and tools that are now required to read and analyse literary and non- literary texts. 1 Learning Outcomes After completing this unit, you should be able to:  define modernism and postmodernism.  point out the similarity and the differences between modernism and postmodernism.  identify the main characteristics of modernism and postmodernism in a literary text.  discuss on the main

The Baroque period spanned from 1600 to 1750. The baroque period can be divided into three parts: early (1600-1640), middle (1640-1680), and late (1680-1750). Although today most people recognize the latest part as the baroque music, the earliest part was one of the most revolutionary phases in music history. The early baroque composers rejected the polyphony texture of the late Renaissance music and favored homophonic texture. They also focused on harmony rather than the complexity of melodic lines

Beyond Commercial Jazz Duke Ellington, one of the most influential musicians in jazz, was known to have described his own unique brand of the genre as American Music. While the reach of jazz ended up breaking past the western hemisphere, it was a definitively American phenomenon (Dyas). The style of the jazz-age, exemplified notably by Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, described perfectly the commercial birth of jazz and the spontaneous lifestyle of the 20’s. However, the commercial styles of jazz

8.5 Prussia. The Old Baltic Prussians were pagans, invaded and Germanised by the Teutonic Knights as a crusade during the 1200s . The Hohenzollerns were the Dukes of Nurenberg, to whom in 1398 the Electorate of Brandenberg succeeded, and subsequently, the Duchy of Prussia in 1618 . Thus the two geographically separate areas were joined by a Hohenzollern personal union, albeit a distance apart. The area was ravaged by the thirty years war, but strengthened by the development of a martial culture

Western musical styles have developed into the music what we listen to today in the twentieth century. Throughout time composers have created new ways to enhance music by adding harmonies, phrases, dynamics, and much more. At the start of music, composers kept a simple melody using the same frame of pitches in simple tunes. As we became more educated, so did our music and we are now able to create songs with texture and countermelodies all within a plethora of genres. The use of notation has changed

When exploring the significance of sound upon a film's thematic concept, one must identify the fundamental components of the individual film score and its relationship to the development of the plot. Sound has been a dominant feature of the audience's cinematic experience from early in the art form's history. Initially existing as a simple piano score that was used to assist in the realisation of certain on-screen emotions, the use of sound has been greatly developed and is now considered as "one