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Impressionism and Primitivism, the composers of the Neoclassical movement rejected Romanticism by looking back to music of the 17th and 18th centuries
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The Modern Period in Western music history lasted from approximately 1890 to 1945
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San Francisco earthquake leaves 500 dead or missing and destroys about 4 sq mi of the city.
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First regular airmail service begins, with one round trip a day between Washington, DC, and New York.
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From a historical perspective, the sheer amount of death and destruction during these 55 years was unprecedented
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Primitivism, takes the Romantic focus on Nationalism and folk music to a new level
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President Wilson suffers a stroke.
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President Harding dies suddenly. He is succeeded by his vice president, Calvin Coolidge
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World War II: U.S. declares its neutrality in European conflict.
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The first of these styles, Impressionism, is seen as both an outgrowth of Romanticism in general, and a reaction against German Romanticism specifically
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atonality. In connection with the artistic movement of Expressionism, atonal composers believed that music had gone as far as it could with regards to functional harmony, and that dissonance
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First atomic bomb is detonated at Alamogordo, N.M.