20th Century Music and Art
Movements: MAPEH 10 Q1
Reviewer
Music, 20th Century Music
Impressionism
The style that explores the mood and atmosphere of music using musical concepts with fluid
melodies.
Expressionism
Reveals the state of mind of the composer, to express strong emotions.
Primitivism
Combines like sound to create new sound and asserts one note above others. Mostly known for
rhythmic and percussive sounds.
Neo-classism
Characterized by restraint, balance and beauty, moderating between Romantic a Expressionist
ideas.
Avant Garde
Associated with electronic music with the parameters and dimensions of sound in space,
critiquing existing aesthetic musical conventions in favor of unusual or original
instruments/sounds, challenging the audience themselves.
Modern Nationalism
Combines modern techniques of music to folk music to create nationalist music.
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Electronic
Uses electronic equipment, using concrete tape recorders in a fast or reverse way.
Chance Music
Music that sounds differently in each performance, emanating from surroundings.
Examples of Composers, their Music and Style
Claude Debussy Arnold Schoenberg
Impressionist, considered as the Father of Expressionist, developed 12-tone tonality
Modern School Composition (dodecaphony)
Compositions Compositions
Claire de Lune Three Pieces for Piano
Prelude to the Afternoon in a Faun Pierrot Lunaire
Igor Stravinsky Bela Bertok
Expressionist, Primitivist and Neo- Primitivist and Modern Nationalist,
classicist Hungarian.
Compositions Compositions
Firebird Song of the Bagpipe
The Right of Spring Piano Sonata
Petrouchka
Sergei Protofiev George Gerswin
Primitivist and Modern Nationalist Avant Garde, Father of American Jazz
Compositions Compositions
Romeo and Juliet Rhapsody in Blue
War and Piece Porgy and Bess
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Peter and the Wolf
Piano Concerto in C Major, op. 26,
no. 3
Philip Glass Edgard Varesse
Avant Garde Electronic, coined “organized sound,”
Father of Electronic Music and
Compositions
Stratospheric Colossus of Sound
Einstein on the Beach
Poeme Electronique
Akhnaten
Karlheinz Stockhausen John Cage
Electronic, central figure in electronic Chance Musician
music.
Compositions
Compositions
4’33”
Gruppen
Music of Change
Helicopter String Quarte
Elements of a Performance
1. Composer
a. The person who writes and directs original music.
2. Composition
a. Refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental.
3. Setting
a. Is a musical composition that is written based on literary work.
b. The literary work is said to be set or adapted to music.
4. Audience
a. Participants in a show or encounter a work of art or academic in any medium.
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Arts, 20th Century Art Movements
Elements of Art Principles of Art
1. Line 1. Balance
2. Shape 2. Contrast
3. Color 3. Emphasis
4. Value (Saturation) 4. Movement
5. Form 5. Pattern
6. Texture 6. Rhythm
7. Space 7. Unity
Impressionism
Concerned with capturing the impression of light, objects and scenery, proliferated by Claude
Monet, Eugene Delacroix, and Auguste Renoir.
Post-Impressionism
Expanding Impressionism boldly, concerning Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne.
Expressionism
Depicts subjective emotions, responses, imagination, and feelings using distortion, strong colors
and exaggerations.
Neo-Primitivism Dadaism
Inspired by African Tribes and South Sea “Non-style” art, using dreams, fantasies,
Landers. ex. Amadeo Modigliani memories, and tricks. ex. Marc Chagall
Fauvism Surrealism
Uses bold and vibrant colors, and visual Depicts strange subjects. ex. Salvador Dali
distortions. ex. Henri Matisse
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Social Realism
Protest against social problems. ex. Ben
Shahn
Abstractionism
Images are reduced to geometrical shapes, patterns, lines, angles, textures, and colors.
Cubism Futurism
Uses geometric shapes and strictly To give formal expression of dynamic
measured lines, simplifying subject to their energy and movement of mechanical
basic geometrical forms. ex. Pablo Picasso processes. ex. Gino Severini
Mechanical Style Non-Objectivism
Figures reduced to their simple and basic No references to recognizable objects. ex.
elements and mechanical components. ex. Piet Mondrian
Fernand Ledger
The New York School, Abstract Expressionism
A term called for Abstract Expressionists
Action Painting Color Field Painting Pictograph
Paint is spontaneously Uses different color Uses repeating symbols or
splashed on canvas, rather saturations to create picture fragments. ex. Adolph
than carefully applied ex. desired effects. ex. Mark Gottlieb
Jackson Pollock Rothko
After the New York School
Light treatment, humor, irrelevance in artworks
Neo-Dadaism Conceptual Art Op Art
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Makes use of commonplace, The concept is more Uses optical illusions to show
trivial, even nonsensical important than the art movement. ex. Bridget Riley
objects for humor. Sometimes itself. ex. Joseph Kosuth
cross-references. (Chairs)
Filipino Counterparts in Arts
Jun Martinez Benedicto “BenCab” Ang Kiukok
Impressionist Cabrera Expressionist and Cubist
Social Realist
Jose Joya Vicente Manansala
Abstract Expressionist Cubist
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