Explore 20th-century music as a playground for modernism and its many aesthetic “isms” with Assistant Professor of Music Theory Knar Abrahamyan. Listening to instrumental, vocal and dance works by Schoenberg, Debussy, Stravinsky, Cage, Eastman, Reich and Oliveros, we will examine how composers engaged with, and helped shape, movements such as expressionism, symbolism, impressionism, orientalism, primitivism, aleatoricism and minimalism. To situate musical innovation within a broader socio-cultural milieu, we will explore these composers’ creative collaborations with prominent dancers, designers, writers and painters, tracing how they co-produced some of the 20th century’s most daring and experimental art.

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