Post 1900s Era

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    Richard Strauss

    A maximalist, composer of tone poems and some of the first modern operas.
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    Charles Ives

    American composer, innovative and original.
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    Arnold Schoenberg

    The father of twelve tone music
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    Expressionism

    A style that emerged in Germany via Arnold Schoenberg. All 12 notes are treated equally; tonality is abandoned.
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    Maximalism

    The 20th century saw the decline of maximalism, as it was coined by Richard Taruskin to describe the style of music of Mahler and Strauss.

  • Victrola phonograph

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    The post 1900s Era

    The most extreme timespan in music. There was no dominating style, the theme may be "variety".

  • The first LP

  • Electric Guitar invented

  • Musique concrete

    A technique developed by Pierre schaeffer that makes use of a tape recorder to splice together recorded natural sounds into a composition.

  • Aleatoric music

    Also called chance music, it is a style of composition in which the composer leaves some elements up to chance. No performance is the same.

  • First synthesizer

  • Radio invented

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    Minimalism

    A style of repetitive music in which small units of musical material could be repeated with only slight variation over time.

  • The compact cassette tape is invented

  • The invention of the walkman