Twentieth Century 1930-2000: Impressionism, Expressionism, Primitivism, Pierrot lunair, Jazz, Scat singing, Blues, Swing, Bebop, Rock and Roll
By morganp2018
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Eugene Paul Gaugin
Primitivist painter -
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John Philip Sousa
marches, failed opera composer -
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Scott Joplin
king of ragtime, American composer -
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Arnold Schonberg
admired by Brahms, atonal 1907-9 -
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Charles Ives
polytonality, insurance agent -
Phonograph invented
invented by Thomas Edison, first to reproduce recorded sound -
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Igor Stravinski
rhythmically complex, numerologist -
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Nadia Boulanger
taught composers in France -
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Sergei Prokofiev
Russian, North American imported music -
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Darius Milhaud
France, Debussy -
Radio invented
invented by Gugielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor -
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William Grant Still
black composer, Harlem renaissance -
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Henry Cowell
John Cage's teacher, coined "tone cluster" -
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George Gershwin
American musicals, Broadway -
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Duke Ellington
Take the A Train, lived in segregated era -
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Aaron Copland
tonal, ballets -
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Louis Armstrong
scat singer -
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Elliott Carter
American composer, gave an interview at 100 years old -
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World War I
Originated in Europe, lasted four years -
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Billie Holiday
Billie's blues, jazz, one of first black people to sing with a white band -
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Billy Strayhorn
Bebop music, wrote lots of unknown works -
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Leonard Bernstein
composer, musicals, bisexual -
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Les Six
Auric, Aurey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc, Tailleferre -
TV invented
invented by Philo Taylor at 21 -
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World War II
included all of the great powers, caused the baby boom after the war