Great Music of the 20th Century
Season 1
Ep 2. Setting the Table and Parsing Out Blame
- TV-PG
- March 2, 2018
- 43 min
Examine historical and social factors that influenced 20th-century composers' abandonment of tradition and obsession with originality. Then learn about the influence of 19th-century German art on the French, and the new French nationalism in music that followed the Franco-Prussian War. Take a first look at Claude Debussy, whose revolutionary music created a new musical syntax.