169 Introduction to Primitivism, Nationalism, and Neoclassicism
In this section we’ll explore some other important trends of the early and middle years of the twentieth century: primitivism, nationalism, and neoclassicism. More importantly, we’ll examine the lives and compositional styles of significant composers who worked in or were influenced by those styles: Stravinsky, Bartok, Shostakovich, and Copland.
This section includes the following pages:
- Primitivism
- Igor Stravinsky
- Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
- Nationalism
- Bela Bartok
- Concerto for Orchestra
- Aaron Copland
- Rodeo
- Neoclassicism
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Symphony No. 5