Timeline 5: Post Romantic 1890-1930

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    Puccini

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    Mahler

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    Wolf

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    Debussy

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    Delius

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    Strauss

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    Sibelius

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    Busoni

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    Beach

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    Granados

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    Joplin

    His true birthdate is unknown
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    Pfitzner

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    Williams

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    Skyrabin

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    Reger

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    Rachmaninoff

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    Holst

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    Falla

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    Respighi

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    Bartok

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    Symanowski

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    Stylistic Traits

    many storytelling features
    dissonance, tension, nonfunctional and tertian harmonies, and tertian harmonies, loss of tonality
    cadences are frequently unresolved or blurred
    polyphony
    religious/mythical, feeling on the piece is extremely exaggerated
    large scope of types of music composed
    (operas, orchestral, tone poems)
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    Jazz invented

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    Maximalism

    Main composers:
    Strauss
    Mahler
    Prokofiev
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    Impressionism

    Main composers:
    Debussy
    Delius
    Respighi
    Ravel
  • First motion pictures are made

  • Spanish American War

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    Expressionism

    Main composers:
    Schoenberg
    Berg
    Webern
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    World War 1

  • Women gain the right to vote

  • Jukebox invented