Early Modern Masters
Course Description:
Counts as a Music Genre course for the Language of Music Certificate.
This course will examine the explosive trends toward personal expression and nationalism at the end of the Romantic Era, with special emphasis on the early modern masters who stamped the 20th century with its signature elements. Folk music and nationalist aspirations will be examined in Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Leos Janacek, and Bohuslav Martinu.
