At higher grades you must be able to discuss with the examiner musical features such as texture, form, style, and period of a piece of music. My own web pages to help with these parts of the test at Grade 5+ and at GCSE are available here!
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Twentieth century music 1900 - 2000
2oth century style
Extremely diverse
Explorations of modality and the pentatonic scale
Expressionism 
An expressionist composition © R Harrison 2009
Minimalism
Atonality and serialism
Still a great deal of tonal, neo-romantic music being written - examples being Kabalevsky, Shostakovitch, Elgar
2oth century forms
Tone poems and descriptive pieces
Expressionist work
Modernist and minimalist
Dissonance and atonality
2oth century instruments
Prepared piano
Invention of the synthesiser in 1960s
MIDI sequencers used increasingly from 1990s
2oth century composers
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Alban Berg
- Ygor Stravinsky
- Claude Debussy
- Maurice Ravel
- Bela Bartók
- George Gershwin
- John Cage
- Philip Glass
