2. ALTERNATIVES TO MODERNISM Look back in your notes, what was
the alternative to modernism in at the beginning of Unit V? Hint:
Modernism and _____________ Hint (last): Some of you created some
propaganda for this What do you expect it to sound like?
3. TRADITIONALIST OR MODERNIST? 1 .) 2.) 3.) 4.)
4. MODERNISM: A HIT? If someone was going to perform
Schoenbergs Pierrot Lunaire at St. Wenceslas Friday night, would
you (raise of hands): Go to see if for $100 a ticket? $20 a ticket?
$5 a ticket? Free?! much modernist music played to a small,
esoteric audience (Kerman, 349). Esoteric-intended for or likely to
be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized
knowledge or interest. Can you blame them?
5. TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRADITIONALISM Read Pg. 249 Paragraph 1
But other impressive composers, both here and abroad, developed a
more ambivalent attitude toward modernism... Some famous
twentieth-century names never joined the Avant-Garde [remember what
that means??!!] at all, and kept on mining the reliable quarries of
Romanticism for their own private seams of (they hoped) musical
gold (Kerman, 349). Ambivalent-having mixed feelings or
contradictory ideas about something or someone. Read paragraph 2.
Does that make sense?
6. TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRADITIONALISM (CONT.) there is no
question that some of the best -and most popular-music of the early
twentieth century was written by composers who never called
themselves modernists (Kerman, 349) Important idea: There is more
to twentieth century music than Shoenberg!