Timeline Five: Post-Romanticism (1890-1930)

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    Eugene Paul Gauguin

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    Gustav Mahler

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    Claude Debussy

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    Richard Strauss

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    Arnold Schoenberg

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    Maurice Ravel

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    Igor Stravinsky

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    Anton Webern

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    Alban Berg

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    Impressionalism

    all chord equal
    no heroic/thematic goal
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    `Post-Romantic Era

    Melody was no longer a focus of a composition
    Shift from string dominance to wind, brass, percussion dominance in orchestras
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    Maximalism

    Chromaticism
    motivic complexity
  • Sound Synthesizer Invented

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    Expressionism

    Atonality
    No chord progression rules
    12 tone
  • 17&16 Amendments

  • Wireless Organ Invented

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    World War I

  • Jazz Style Began

  • 12-Tone Method (Serialism)

  • Vibraphone Invented

  • Walt Disney Company Founded

  • WWII

    Starts