Chapter 13: Modernism in the Arts to 1945 19001945 continued

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Chapter 13 Modernism in the Arts to 1945
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Architecture

• New developments in Architectural design due to
  construction/materials advancements
  socio/economic changes (fig. 13.12, p.323)
• Cantilever design
• Steel cage construction
• Form follows function
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Possibly the greatest American architect - using
  various techniques to bring nature inside of
  the homes buildings
• Kaufmann House (fig. 13.13, p. 324)

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Architecture

• Gropius
• The Bauhaus (fig. 13.16, p. 326)
• Morgan
• First woman architect to graduate from Ecóle des
  Beaux Arts in Paris, founded a firm in California
  and designed homes, churches, and institutional
  buildings.
• Hearst Castle in San Simeon
• Countless residences in the San Fransisco area
• Several buildings on the Mills College campus in
  Oakland

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Music

• Schoenberg
• Twelve-tone system
• Serenade, op.24 tone row example (ex. 13.1,
  p.329)
• Berg
• One of the most successful students of Schoenberg
• Violin Concerto tone row example (ex. 13.2,
  p.330)
• Webern
• Extended twelve-tone technique to be more
  completely organized serialism
• Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 10

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Music

• Vaughan Williams
• In his vocal instrumental music he continued to
  write in a more Romantic-Nationalist style
• Drawn to the folk music of the British Isles.
• Stravinsky
• A student of Rimsky-Korsakov many of his early
  works were in the school of the realist
  Nationalism of the Russian Five.
• Important compositions were ballets or stage
  works
• The Firebid
• Petrouchka
• The Rite of Spring

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Music

• Ives
• Most of his compositional output was before WWI,
  most was not heard until after WWII.
• Unorthodox compositional style, predated many
  techniques that later became widely used.
• Gershwin
• Music profoundly influenced by jazz.
• Rhapsody in Blue
• An American in Paris
• Piano Concerto in F
• Also wrote for musical theatre and opera
• Porgy and Bess

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Music

• Popular Music
• Ragtime
• Blues
• Jazz
• Swing
• Broadway musical

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