In this section we’ll explore some other important trends of the early and middle years of the twentieth century: primitivism, nationalism, and neoclassicism. More importantly, we’ll examine the lives and compositional styles of significant composers who worked in or were influenced by those styles: Stravinsky, Bartok, Shostakovich, and Copland.

This section includes the following pages:

• Primitivism
• Igor Stravinsky
• Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
• Nationalism
• Bela Bartok
• Concerto for Orchestra
• Aaron Copland
• Rodeo
• Neoclassicism
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Symphony No. 5