Trends and Tendencies in the European Music of the First Half of the 20th Century
Trends and Tendencies in the European Music of the First Half of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The present paper panoramically describes European music of the first half of the 20th century. In order to easily understand the musical tableau of the respective period of time in its entire complexity it was necessary to consider the evolution premises existent at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the following one. The content of this paper is the result of a documentary research activity on the evolution of music during Post-Romanticism and Modernism. From the bibliography, musical scores and audio materials we extracted data that enabled us to shape/recompose the multifaceted image of the musical phenomenon of a period of time of more than a half of a century which was extremely fertile from the point of view of both diversity of accomplishing means and variety of stylistic expression. The multitude ways of composing and the limited space of the present paper did not allow us to exhaustively cover all procedures composers employed in creating music during the above-mentioned period of time, nevertheless we succeeded in presenting an exact overview of those trends and tendencies which - simultaneously or consequently - not only deeply hallmarked the music of the first half of the 20th century, but also opened interesting and multiple perspectives for the subsequent evolution in music.

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