Rebecca Saunders

Modernism was an approach that sought new forms of expression through sound, developed by composers such as Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, Varèse, Boulez, Stockhausen, and Ligeti. Schoenberg dismantled tonality and moved toward twelve-tone technique; Webern treated pitch, timbre, intensity, duration, and even the silence between sounds as compositional elements; Varèse