20th Century (1930-2000)

Joplin

Period: Nov 24, 1868 to Apr 1, 1917

Schoenberg

Period: Sep 13, 1874 to Jul 13, 1951

Stravinsky

Period: Jun 17, 1882 to Apr 6, 1971

Tailleferre

Period: Apr 19, 1892 to Nov 7, 1983

Grant Still

Period: May 11, 1895 to Dec 3, 1978

Gershwin

Period: Jul 26, 1898 to Jul 11, 1937

Poulenc

Period: Jan 7, 1899 to Jan 30, 1963

Ellington

Period: Apr 29, 1899 to May 24, 1974

Copland

Period: Nov 14, 1900 to Dec 2, 1990

Shostakovich

Period: Jul 25, 1906 to Aug 9, 1975

Barber

Period: Mar 9, 1910 to Jan 23, 1981

Cage

Period: Sep 5, 1912 to Jul 12, 1992

Bernstein

Period: Jul 25, 1918 to Oct 14, 1990

Styles/Genres

1930

12-tone, jazz, serialism, atonality, Aleatoric, etc

Instruments

1930

Theremin, ontes-martenot, synthesizer

Star Spangled Banner Named US National Anthem

1931

FDR Elected as President

1932

WWII Begins

1939

Pearl Harbor

1941

US Bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1945

John Adams

Feb 15, 1947

Rock n' Roll Starts

1951

Stalin Dies

1953

Vietnam War Starts

1955

Berlin Wall Construction Begins

1961

Kennedy Assassination

1963

First Man on the Moon

1969

Whitacre

Jan 2, 1970