Timeline Six: Post-1900s Era (1930-2000)

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    Sousa

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    Charles Ives

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    Arnold Schoenburg

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    Ives

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    Anton Webern

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    Edgard Varese and Electronic Music

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    Luigi Russolo

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    Florence Price

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    Nadia Boulanger

    taught practically all 20th century American composers
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    Prokofiev

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    William Grant Still

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    Henry Cowell

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    George Gershwin

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    Federico Garcia Lorca

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    Duke Ellington

  • Melody Abolished 20th century forward

  • Heterophony Popular in 20th Century

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    Schoneburg went Atonal circa

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    Elliott Carter

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    Olivier Messiaen

    incorporated bird songs into his music
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    John Cage

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    Billy Holiday

    lead jazz singer
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    Billy Strayhorn

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    Milton Babbitt

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    Leonard Bernstein

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    Gyorgy Ligeti

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    Pierre Boulez

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    Luciano Berio

    established the electronic studio in milan
  • Webster's International Dictionary: Definition of music

    Any art over which the muses presided The science or art of pleasing expressive or intelligible combination of tones the art of making such combinations especially into compositions of definite structure and significance according to the laws of melody harmony and rhythm
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    Karlheinz Stockhausen

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    George Crumb

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    The great depression

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    The Swing Era

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    John Williams

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    Henryk Gorecki

  • Invention of Electric Guitar

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    Elvis Presley

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    WWII

  • Electronic Music Invented

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    Big Band Era

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Tape Music

  • Appalachian Spring

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    Bebop

    the new jazz late 1940's
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    Musique Concrete

    new musical style
  • Prepared Piano (instruments)

    Cage created
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    Quarter tone music/highly dissonant sounds

    occurred when computer music first emerged
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    Rock 'N' Roll

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    Film Music became more prominent

  • Role of Silence in music (Cage)

  • Invention of Widescreen Cinema

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    Serialist Period

  • The RCA Mark II Synthesizer

  • Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language: Definition of music

    The art of Science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds or tones in varying melody harmony rhythm and timber especially so as to form structurally complete and emotionally expressive compositions
  • West Side Story

    Bernstein
  • Merriam Webster Dictionary: Definition of music

    The science or are of combining tones into a composition having structure and continuity
  • Synthesizer had significant influence on film music industry

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    MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface

    MIDI adopted and incorporated into all new synthesizers
    enables computer interactions with synthesizers and sequences