From Claude Debussy to Leonard Bernstein, we celebrate some of the very best music written after 1900, through the lens of ten landmark works. The 20th century ushered in a period of drastic ...

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

From the harmonies and impressionistic sparkle of the French school to the avant-garde of the Viennese school and all the way across to the rhythmic vitality of the Russian school, the early twentieth ...

taking part of her musical heritage and reimagining it with a classical orchestra. Naomi: Another country with a huge influence in 20th Century music is Russia. Ludwig: Who is zis man? Vhy so serious?

Advancing technology enabled the recording of classical music and jazz, which in turn lead to the rise of globe-straddling artists like Pavarotti and Callas. Music in the 20th Century changed ...

I was in my teens in high school when Elvis hit, and he changed everything in popular music. I thought he was great, even ...

As with other musical elements, the early 20th century was a time when structure ... different parts of the world are from Western Classical music. Indian ragas are based on the rag - an Indian ...

Jazz great Duke Ellington and his band shaped the 20th century American music scene, and his influence lives on in jazz and ...