Earlier, in the aftershock of the First World War, each of those composers had turned in his own way in a more formal, more rationalized, less freely intuitive direction: Schoenberg to the 1. S., among them Schoenberg and Stravinsky. īefore and during WWII, many leading figures in music and the other arts emigrated to the U. The First World War had been followed by the Jazz Age, the decade of. 5, the Western world had experienced two world wars separated by a depression.
The hope is to give some context to the varicolored music that will be on display from the last fifty- something years. Also bearing on art are the great movements and ideas of an age: the wave of revolution and reaction across Europe in Beethoven's time the science of evolution in the American Progressive era (the time of Charles Ives) the influence of Freud and cultural exhaustion and nationalistic reaction in Vienna during Schoenberg's early career. A postwar period is a frame of mind, something on the order of culture- wide post- traumatic stress. The aftershocks of wars and other titanic events reverberate through the generations, and that process affects music as much as any other human endeavor. Walton's Crown Imperial.ĬANCELOKcanceldelete collection. Are you sure you want to continue? Jan Swafford began writing music as a teenager in.
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