Timeline 5: Post-Romanticism (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

    Born in either 1867 or 1868
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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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    Szymanowski

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    Maximalism

    Prominent Composers: Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev
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    Impressionism

    Prominent Composers: Debussy, Delius, Respighi, Ravel
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    Jazz

    Late 19th Century - Early 20th Century
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    Stylistic Traits

    -Polyphony
    -Dissonance
    -Tension
    -Non-functional and tertian harmonies
    -Loss of tonality
    -Storytelling-like features
    -Cadences are often unresolved/blurred
    -Religious/mythical
    -Emotion in music is extremely exaggerated
    -Wide range of types of music composed (operas, orchestral, tone poems, etc.)
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  • Spanish American War

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    Expressionism

    Prominent Composers: Schoenberg, Berg, Webern
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    World War 1

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