Musical Era - Modern

Question 1

Modern France & Switzerland

Answer 1

Paris center of increasing diverse, worldly music

Composers connected to Paris Conservatory

Interest in staged works

Nadia Boulanger - a magnet for American composers

Question 2

Modern Germany & Spain

Answer 2

Second Viennese School - Promotes Serialism (Schonberg)

Impact of Nazi Germany
Schonberg (Jewish) moves to US

Hindemith moves to US to escape

Distler struggles with idea of Nazi service

Question 3

Modern England

Answer 3

Conservative Style - English Countenance still alive and well

Relatively Insular - most train in England and don’t travel extensively

Interest in Folk music (Cecil Sharp)

Question 4

Modern US and Canada

Answer 4

US center of musical universe

American composers not really pushing boundaries with new techniques

1/4 or early era composers study with Nadia Boulanger

Academia an important source of both education and vocation - replaces other means of training and employment