The twentieth century had some extraordinary composers. Among these composers were Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Charles Ives. These three men contributed to music and they way people experienced it through the changes they made by rethinking how traditional instrumentation, formal structure, and melodic expression affected music of their time. They were able to break away from the musical traditions from the past and implement their own spin on music and how it should be created. The techniques they used have been analyzed and many musicians look up to them for the movement they created. They experimented and tested boundaries. They may have received flack for the changes they made and some booing and backlash along the way but in the end they are seen as some of the biggest contributors of music in history.
Igor Stravinsky
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His music helped start the beginning of modern music (Fiero, 2015). Stravinsky wrote the music for The Rite of Spring which was by the Ballet Russe. Once the music began to play there was out rage throughout the theater. People began disrupting the show through booing, yelling, and a general outcry of dismay (Fiero, 2015). The audience was upset with Stravinsky for his use of bold combinations which included throbbing rhythms, dissonant harmonies, which were intertwined with a new type of choreography (Fiero, 2015). Stravinsky’s melodic expression was not typical of most composers. To under mine the meter he would often use unpredictable accents and rapid change in meter, consistently use ostinatos, and would used discontinuity and interruption in his music. In european art music he was the leader in revitalizing it. He rethought how he used traditional instrumentation too. He would use dry, anti-lyrical, but colorful use of instruments. (Forney, Dell’Antonio, and Machlis, n.d.,