Author: SCI Members Mailing List
Subject: A list of essential 20th/21st century compositions
A few years ago, I stumbled across a list of, for lack of a better term, 20th century masterpieces that I found suitable as an entry place for my undergraduate music majors. I have since lost track of this list and was wondering if I could call upon the collective mind here to find a similar list, or to help me conjure a fresh one of our own, of around 50 works that might be viewed as vital to include for music students new, or underexposed, to 20th and 21st century repertoire - works representative of the diversity in craftsmanship and invention from the past 116 years. [...]
Subject: A list of essential 20th/21st century compositions
A few years ago, I stumbled across a list of, for lack of a better term, 20th century masterpieces that I found suitable as an entry place for my undergraduate music majors. I have since lost track of this list and was wondering if I could call upon the collective mind here to find a similar list, or to help me conjure a fresh one of our own, of around 50 works that might be viewed as vital to include for music students new, or underexposed, to 20th and 21st century repertoire - works representative of the diversity in craftsmanship and invention from the past 116 years. [...]