Naomi: Right, I've got one more example of change and experimentation in 20th Century music. Naomi: One of the pioneers of Impressionism was the French composer, Claude Debussy.

Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1913) Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s crowning masterpiece was penned in the 20th century. The Rite of Spring is a ballet composed by Stravinsky for Sergei’s ...

Critic Alex Ross, in his best-selling book The Rest Is Noise, takes a long, hard squint at musical Modernism in its context, by way of what he calls “the 20 th century heard through its music.” ...

From Krzysztof Penderecki to Arvo Pärt, the great composers of Central Europe have used music to convey the ineffable and the divine. Here we explore these artists whose work speaks to the weight of ...

Harmony and tonality - Edexcel Early 20th century - Harmony and tonality. Music contains notes in succession ... An example of serialism can be found in Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.

Singer Bessie Smith’s recording career lasted only 10 years, but during that time she created a body of work that helped shape the sound of the 20th century. Her first single, “Downhearted ...