Interwar Years (Clark, Laffey, Michel, Thomas)

• What was revolutionary about music in the 1920s and 1930s? ?  What forces outside of music influences musicians during this postwar era?
• Consider  popular music and the ways the music reflected and gave shape to ideas and trends of the World War I era.
• Focus on a particular composer or composition--works the best.

Classical

• What was different about classical music after the war?   
• How did one composition reflect the themes of this new age?
• How did classical music of the time reflect the cultural impact of the war?
• Consider composers like: 
  • Arnold Schoenberg 
  • Igor  Stravinsky