1. Music
In the early 1900s

2. Journal – Scott Joplin

3. Musical Elements – A review
Rhythm
Tempo
Harmony
Melody
Form
Timbre/Tone Color
Dynamics

4. Key Terms Art music Popular Music World Music Sound Recording
Atonality
Serialism
Sycopated
Ragtime
Dixie Land
Collective improvisation

5. Changes in Society With Industrialization and urbanization came:
phenomenal changes in technology (new products)
the advent of instantaneous global communications (telegraph, telephone)

6. Changes in Music ambivalent attitudes toward the musical past
a widening gap between “art” and “popular” music
the advent of sound recording (victrola)
the birth of a “world music” culture- when music styles from around the world start to blend together

7. World Music Sample

8. The Victrola
If the function is to play back music, how then could this device actually begin to effect music?

9. Art Music
Art Music
refers to musical traditions implying advanced structural and theoretical considerations
In other words “serious” music with its roots in classical and ballet.

10. Changes In Artistic Musical Styles (1900s)
Anything goes- composers are beginning to break from tradition
all sounds are possible (even no sounds)
new instruments and the sounds of popular music have changed the soundscape of the twentieth century
rhythms and harmony are being experimented with
Improvisation is becoming more popular

11. Composers of the Twentieth Century
Arnold Schoenberg
Known for his pioneering work:
atonality
music that lacks tone, timbre or key- (can sound weird or even bad to some)
Serialism
playing with the order of notes for new sounds
Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire (1-5) - YouTube

12. Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire 1912

13. Popular Music Music designed for pure entertainment
Often to get people to go to a concert or buy the music
What average people are listening to!

14. Ragtime –
Ragtime is a style of popular music that began in America
Its main identifying trait is its ragged or syncopated rhythm.
Performing this required great skill, musicians began to “compete” with eachother.
less concerned with musical values, designed as they were to reach a large and undiscriminating audience (not as formal as art music)

16. Composers of the Twentieth Century
Scott Joplin
syncopation
written primarily for piano
not improvised but written down
contains march-like characteristics
bouncy rhythm
generally upbeat
light melodies and satisfying harmonies

17. Maple Leaf Rag

18. New Orleans Style (Dixieland) 1900-1920′s
After the Civil War, soldiers in the South pawned their instruments
This left a cheap, ready supply of instruments for newly freed slaves.
They formed bands and played out on the streets, a tradition still very much alive in New Orleans.

20. New Orleans Style (Dixieland) 1900-1920′s
General Characteristics:
three or four wind instruments
a rhythm section – some combination of piano, tuba, drums, guitar or banjo
trombone outlines harmonic progressions
clarinet improvises above and below main melody
collective improvisation 
all instruments solo at once.

21. Struttin' With Some Barbecue