MUS244ab Music of the Early Twentieth Century
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The development of music from the turn of the century to the Second World War. The bewildering variety of musical styles in this era will be examined: impressionism, expressionism, neo-classical and neo-romantic, nationalist and radical; Debussy and Ravel, Schönberg and his followers, Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith, Prokofiev and Shostakovitch, Ives and Varèse