Pioneered by composers Elgar, Britten, Debussy, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Shostakovich, Messiaen, Boulez, Glass, Schoenberg, Ravel.
Modernism in music was about being radical and different. 1st time, musicians and audiences realised that music didn’t have to be confined to tradition. Best of serialism, minimalism, film soundtracks, songs and symphonies.
‘Next Gen’ composers had wider palettes of musical colours. Reich, Glass, Nyman, Adams championed minimalism, breaking musical boundaries.
Schoenberg, Berg, Webern rebelled against old patterns, stripped music back to bare bones. Putting each of 12 notes in scale in a particular order, angular mathematical music, called serialism.
Advancing technology enabled high-quality recordings of modern classical music.
Imaginations create new realities!