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Women's Suffrage
In the 19th century, women were fighting for their rights, one of the rights they were fighting the most for was their right to vote. Some of the tactics they used were hunger strikes, picketing, marches, lobbies, and many more. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was at the front lines of this movement & organized the women's rights convention in Seneca Falls. The declaration of sentiments was a document that stated the rights they wanted to receive was molded after the US declaration of independence. -
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Gustav Mahler
Mahler was born in 1860 and died in 1911. He was an Austrian composer. Maximalism was a big thing in this era and in his music he included a lot of this. Mahler wrote 10 symphonies -
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Claude Debussy
Debussy was born in 1862 and died in 1918. He is most famous for his piano, chamber, stage, and orchestral works he was the one who invented the term (musical impressionism) This was all about influencing other composers and catch their eye so they can follow and differently compose around his ideas. -
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Richard Strauss
Strauss was born in 1864 and died in 1949. He was a famous German composer in this era because he wrote many famous poems wrote one of the first-ever modern operas. His music has styles of maximalism in it he was a very multi-talented man. -
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Erik Satie
Satie was born in 1866 and died in 1925. He did not write music that was impressionistic but with his music, he influenced a new sound and new french aesthetic. He wrote many dramatic songs on the piano. -
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Maurice Ravel
Ravel was born in 1875 and died in 1937. He was a french composer that was very skilled. At the piano he innovated a different way of playing the piano and in a new style that then was passed down. He wrote many orchestras and was an expert at it. -
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Nadia Boulanger
Boulanger was born in 1887 and died in 1979. They were an important french educator and of people who were composers in the 20th century. She taught some of the most famous composers like Francis Berkely, Marc Blitzstein, and many more. -
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Post-Romanticism
This era was in the middle of two different eras, the Nineteenth Century Romantic Period (1810-1900) and the Twentieth Century (1900-2000) at the end of this romantic period melody was still used to express emotions and were very lyrical and expressive, but it started to shift where the melody is now not as important and symmetrical music was now most in favor. -
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Maximalism
this is a style that was brought into the early 2oth century where music and its elements are pushed to max effort. They wanted to be able to have musical elements have an enlargement or extension of forms, genres and make traditional forms of music into bigger statements. The maximalist style was most often found in orchestra settings. -
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Impressionism
The composer Claude Debussy introduced this style of musicality in the 1890s in France. Before impressionism, there were traditional rules for chord progressions in music. When Impressionism became implemented, these rules were thrown out the window, & chords were treated equally. The rules of melody were mixed in during this era. Melody used to be required & had to be structured to fit the piece of music but because of impressionism there was more freedom & melodies could be out of context. -
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World War I
During World War I, The Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire) and The Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan, and the United States) fought against each other. This war was massively destructive and over 16 million people died.