The Sound and the Fury: A Century of Music - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Wrecking Ball
Series on the revolution in 20th century music looks at the fragmented, abstract and discordant sound taken up by radical composers such as Schoenberg and Webern.
Free for All
Series on the revolution in 20th century music looks at how modernism came under state control in the 1930s and how a new generation of composers tried to reinvent it.
Easy Listening?
Series about 20th century music shows how American composers re-invented the sound of classical music into a more simple form, bringing back harmonies and rhythms.
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