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Music in the 20th Century

Video title: The Early 20th Century

Use this K12 history of music video to study music in the early 20th century. Learn about polyphony, dissonance and tonality. Explore Stravinsky's far-reaching focus on rhythm, Debussy's Impressionist compositions and Schoenberg's ground breaking atonal music.

 

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Music in the 20th Century. Learning Objectives for this video:

  • Music in the 20th Century. Learn about Music in The Early 20th Century. Learn how the individual expression and emotional quality of Beethoven-s works influenced the symphonic form.
  • Explore Wagner-s contributions to opera, Stravinsky-s far-reaching focus on rhythm, Copland-s vigorous synthesis of jazz and classical elements, and the experimental works of composers since the mid-twentieth century.
  • Learn why the public of the early twentieth century began to pay more attention to the music of the past than to the music being written by contemporary composers.
  • Listen to excerpts from compositions by Beethoven, Berlioz, Chopin, Copland, Debussy, Gershwin, Liszt, Mahler, Puccini, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and Wagner.
  • Discover the many benefits of using online video for visual learning. Educational video for teaching the K-12 curriculum provides online learning for children and students of all ages and abilities. Using subtitled video - or video with closed captions - enables children to choose between watching, listening to, or reading each presentation whichever best suites their individual learning style. A wonderful option particularly for dyslexia and special needs education.

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