This is a presentation over the composer from the 20th century that my small group was assigned.

1. CHRISTOPHER SMITH
THERE AND BACK AGAIN

2. Team 007
 There and Back Again
 Premiere
 1920, Berlin
 Commentary
 The “Hommage à BACH” in this work is no
accident. With its return to pre-classical
forms, . . . the [work] serves as a typical
example of the new-classicism on the
1920s.
 Genre
 Piano suites

3. Team 007
 Influence
 The atonality of this work along with neoclassicism is
understood as an influence upon Aaron Copland
and Anton Webern
 Explored other means to express the relevance to
the changing world of music
 Strayed from German traditions and form
 Defies listeners’ expectations
 Wrote solely for expert listeners

4. Team 007
 Christopher Smith
 Born into Jewish family
 Music declared degenerate music during rise of the
Nazis
 Self taught composer
 Painter, music theorist, composition teacher
 Had a fear of the number 13, and died on Friday 13
 Interested in Sigmund Freud’s experiments of the
subconscious

5. Team 007
 Isms and ideas
 Avant-garde
 Atonality
 Developing variation
 Polyphony
 Serialism
 Dodecaphonic