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Eugene Paul Gauguin
-French Post-Impressionist Artist -
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Gustav Mahler
-Made important expansions to symphonies
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Claude Debussy
-French Composer of the early 20th Century -Known for composing the first modern orchestral work -
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Richard Strauss
-German
-Supported Wagner's use of chromaticism
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Arnold Schoenberg
-Austrian composer, theorist, and pianter
-Part of the Second Vienesse School
12-tone Method -
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Maurice Ravel
-French Impressionist Composer
- Credited with writing the first Impressionist Piano piece -
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Igor Stranvinsky
-Russian Composer, musical style changed overtime
-The Rite of Springs -
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Anton Webern
-Austrian composer and conductor
- Part of the Second Vienesse School -
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Alban Berg
-Austrian Composer
-Part of the Second Vienesse School -
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Impressionism
-French; anti-germanic, Debussy lead
-One of the first anti-romantic styles
-Disregarded chord progression rules
-Composers: Debussy, Delius, Respghi
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Maximalism
-Composers: Mahler, R. Strauss
-Extreme Chromatism
-Bigger perfomance groups
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Post Romantic Era
-The melody was not a focus of a composition
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Sound Synthesizer Invented
-Machine that electronically generates and modifies sounds -
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Expressionism
-Composers: Arnold Schoenberg
-Focused on completely freeing music from tonality
-Atonality
-No chord progression rules -
16th and 17th Amendment
16th- allows for the collection on income taxes for all citizens by the federal government
17th- states that the Senators must be elected by majority vote. -
Wireless Orghan Invented
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World War I
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Jazz Style Began
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World War II