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[ noun ] 100 years
Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)A tongue-in-cheek stylization of 18_th Century ideas ; a trial_balloon to test the aesthetic climate of the times ; a brilliant piece_de_resistance ? We unanimously agreed that Prokofieff had won his rights as a world citizen to the first ranks of Twentieth Century Composers . With a large and circumspect 20_th Century technique , he wove the materials of national heroes and events , national folklore and children 's fairy_tales - Slavic dances and love songs - into a solid musical literature which served his people well , and is providing much enjoyment to the World at_large . Thus in Prokofieff the Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics produced one of the great composers of the Twentieth Century . That he mastered every aspect of his medium according_to his own great talents and contemporary judgments , is a good and solid symbol of his people under the tremendous pressures of proclaiming and practising the rigors of a new culture ; and perhaps of even greater significance - his music is strong 20_th Century evidence of the effectiveness of Evolution , based on a broad Traditionalism for the creative art of music . Related terms time_period quattrocento millennium decade quarter-century half-century |
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