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What has surprised you most about 20th C music?
How good some of the music was, despite the weirdness.
I can not listen to this music at all. It is not easy on the ears at all. I wish I could go back and change it all. It amazed me that they took things from the past periods.
What surprised me most about 20th century music was how early electronics were used in composing and producing new sounds. While most of these sounded like complete crap, they found their way into popular music and other forms of entertainment such as cartoons, as well as forming a path for sound designers in general.
The fact that electronic music had been used in the early 20th century amazed me. I thought all of it came in during the 80's or something, Poeme Electronique sounded like new Radiohead stuff!
How there were these extremes. Either you deviated from the old ideas or you went with the old ideas and composed based on those ideas.
Surprised? Probably the range of sounds, even NOISES, that can be cobbled together and called music. I've found that the answer to the question "Is it music?" is always "It COULD be!"
It has surprized me more by now knowing that the music made from today has already been done. Its amazing how the old music is still sampled and writing the same way.
It is different than I was expecting it to be. Other than that nothing really surprised me.
Was very surprised at how diverse the music was. Some of the pieces were just absolutely horrid, but some were actually enjoyable to listen to.
Nothing really surpirsed me. I figured 20th century music would sound completely different from anything else we've covered since the music of today sounds completely different from anything we've covered. Well, nevermind, one thing that did surprise was people rioted over the new type of music. I guess its shocking to me because "shocking" music is more common today than it ever was.
Before we started studying twentieth century music, I thought it would be more like today's music. After we started studying the twentieth century, I learned that many of the pieces sounded like the other eras we have already studied. It is very hard to identify the pieces because they sound so much like the other ones. I was very suprised by this. I knew that more percussion and electonics would be used, but I thought it would have a completely new sound. I was suprised that the twentieth century wasn't very new and interesting. The Romantic era was more interesting than the twentieth century and I thought it would be the opposite.
It's near inability to be classified by certain characteristics. It has so many styles. One person can't hear something and think "20th Century" like one can in the previous eras.
The vastness of the realms of ideas in which it encompasses. Anything goes. Its like an explosion of creative musical thought. Pretty awesome in my opinion.
I throughly enjoyed the exploration of noise and the abandoment of "civilized" music to prove the point that anything can be music
How early the electronic music was introduced.
It sounds just like the music of the old days just with better and more instruments.
how it came about, the history.
The variety of the music.
How ridiculous it can be. I love the Romantic music, but 20th century is just plain noise. Yes, yes, to shock the audience. To be honest with you, that has been said about every era: "This is different, a reaction to the era before." Everything is to shock or please an audience.
The atonality. Random notes and singing doesn't seem to mix.
