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Igor Stravinsky, one of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century. Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the interwar period, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint.
This category is about Neoclassicism in music, as it existed as an art movement from the early 20th century on.. Neoclassicism in music differs from Neoclassicism in plastic arts and writing: Neoclassicism in plastic arts and writing is a style that revives the imagery and forms of classical antiquity: the art movement that exemplifies this kind of neoclassicism had its peak in late 18th ...
From the mid-19th-century American movement: poetry and philosophy concerned with self-reliance, independence from modern technology [39] Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau: Realism: The mid-19th-century movement based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns [40]
In American architecture, Neoclassicism was one expression of the American Renaissance movement, ca. 1890–1917; its last manifestation was in Beaux-Arts architecture, and its final large public projects were the Lincoln Memorial (highly criticized at the time), the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (also heavily criticized by the ...
Chronological list of American classical composers; ... List of symphonic poems; List of symphonies by number; ... Four Last Songs discography;
Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-3506-7. Oblad, MeriLyn (2004). Sentimental Songs: Gendered Notions of Duty in American Civil War Music. Brigham Young University. Olson, Kenneth E. (1981). Music and Musket: Bands and Bandsmen of the American Civil ...
Connected through their mutual political message that may be either explicitly Marxist or at least socialist, the poems are often aesthetically disparate. [65] The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement in the 1920s involving many African-American writers from the New York Neighbourhood of Harlem. [66]
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...