Stravinsky to the Present

Line drawing of Stavinsky, wearing a suit, hands loosely together, sitting in a chair.

Portrait of Igor Stravinsky by Pablo Picasso (1920). (Public domain image.)

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MIT Course Number

21M.260

As Taught In

Spring 2016

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Features

Course Description

This course provides an overview of the musical styles and techniques developed over the past 115 years. The anthology and supplemental listening will present a range of art music aesthetics in a variety of genres such as chamber music, symphonic and choral music, and opera. While tuning your ears to novel sounds, you will hone your own preferences and aim to understand the motivations behind and importance of a wide diversity of compositional orientations, including Expressionism, Impressionism, atonality, neo-Classicism, serialism, nationalism, the influence of jazz and popular idioms, post-tonality, electronic music, aleatory, performance art, post-modernism, minimalism, spectralism, the New Complexity, neo-Romanticism, and post-minimalism.

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Emily Pollock. 21M.260 Stravinsky to the Present. Spring 2016. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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