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Neo-tonality
Not entirely tonal, but not entirely atonal -
Electric guitar invented by George Beauchamp
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John Williams born
John Williams is widely regarded as one of the best and most influential American composers. If you hear a movie score and you think "wow, that's really good," John Williams probably composed it. -
"Porgy and Bess" is first performed
Composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937) -
Philip Glass born
Philip Glass is considered to be a minimalist composer -
"Take the 'A' Train" written
Composed by Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) -
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World War II
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Musique Concrete
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Electronic Music
Musique Concrete is a specific style of electronic music. Electronic music has developed and changed in many ways since its original creation as technology has advanced. -
Tape music invented
Tape music is integral in musique concrete -
A. L. Webber born
Andrew Lloyd Webber is a composer of musicals that have been extremely successful both on Broadway and the West End, including the ever popular "Phantom of the Opera." -
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Indeterminate Music
John Cage is credited with pioneering this style -
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Aleatoric music
"roll of the dice" music -
"Sonatine for violin and piano" written
Composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), an aleatoric composer -
4'33" composed
Composed by John Cage (1912-1992) -
"West Side Story" premiered
Composed by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) -
Shostakovich String Quartet 8 premiered in Leningrad
Composed by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) -
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Post-modernism
Formed in reaction to modernism -
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Minimalism
Philip Glass and John Adams are widely known composers of this style -
Moon landing
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Neo-romanticism
A return to some of the forms of Romanticism -
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New Complexity
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First MIDI synthesizers released
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Totalism
A response to minimalism; parallels post-minimalism in many ways -
"Into the Woods" opens on Broadway
Written by Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)