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1900
Mahler-dissonance, chromaticism, intensity-juxtapose chromatic/diatonic
Debussy-weak sense of direction, oscillating chords-exotic-pentatonic, octatonic scales, pitch collections
Rachmaninoff-stark contrast in materials
Scriabin (1910)-series of textures, sonorities
Schoenberg (1920)-Sprechstimme-intense dissonance, distortion, atonal-tone rows
Berg-atonal, not twelve-tone
Webern-Klangfarbenmelodie: change of instrumental timbre as part of the melody-pointillism: succession of tiny points of sound
Stravinsky (1920)-special timbres-juxtapositions, discontinuities(1920-50)-neoclassical style
Bartok (1930)-folk music assimilation
Ives (1910)-American vernacular tradition-cumulative form
Shostakovich (1930)Copland (1940)
-American folk music-open chords-->sense of openness
Messiaen (1940)-repeating cycles
Crumb (1970)-theatricality
Babbitt (1920)-voice with synthesized sound-vocal melody very disjunct, Sprechstimme, glissandos
Cage (1950)-chance operations
Adams (1980)-minimalism: constant pulsation and repetitions