Timeline Five: Post-Romanticism

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    Puccini

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    Wolf

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    Mahler

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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

    Joplin may have been born in 1968, but historians don't really know.
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    Pfitzner

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    Skryabin

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    Williams

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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

    Primary Composers of this period were Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Sergei Prokofiev
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    Impressionism

    Primary composers of this period Debussy, Delius, Respighi, Ravel
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    Stylistic Traits

    many storytelling features
    dissonance, tension, nonfunctional tertian harmonies and 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)
  • Alaskan Gold Rush Begins

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    Construction of the Panama Canal

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    Expressionism

    Primary Composers of this period were Schoenberg, Berg, Webern
  • Sinking of the Titanic

  • Victrola Phonograph Invented

  • Jukebox invented

  • Stock Market Crash