21 Chapter A. Overall Objectives This chapter will help you acquire familiarity with: 1. Musical features of important traditionalist twentieth-century styles before 1945, especially Neoclassicism, nationalism, and film music. 2. Various alternatives to modernism explored by twentieth-century traditionalist composers and their reasons for rejecting modernism. 3. The influence on music of other art forms, such as ballet, modern dance, and film. 4. Features of twentieth-century American art music as they reflected and influenced European music between the world wars. 5. The lives and music of Maurice Ravel, Bla Bartk, Aaron Copland, and Sergei Prokofiev. 6. impact The of totalitarianism on twentieth-century music, especially in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. 7. (optional) Traditionalist opera of the early twentieth century, especially the works of Puccini and Strauss. B. Listening Objectives After completing this chapter, you should be able to: 1. Hear and identify typical uses of the elements of music in traditionalist twentieth-century styles before 1945. 2. Identify and follow important twentieth-century orchestral genres, modern dance scores, and film music. 3. Hear and identify features of important styles and trends in twentieth-century art music, especially Neoclassicism and nationalism.