20th Century
1900-Present
Historical Events
• 1914 – WWI
• 1920 – Women get the right to vote
• 1929 – Stock Market crashes, Great Depression
begins
• 1939 – WWII, Germany invades Poland
• 1959 – Alaska and Hawaii become states
Historical Events
• 1961 – First astronaut in space (Alan Shephard 1st
American)
• 1965 – U.S. sends troops to Vietnam
• 1969 – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the
moon
• 1989 – Berlin wall is torn down
• 2001 – September 11th, attack on the World Trade
Center and Pentagon
General Facts
• Technology is created and advances at an
amazing rate
Global communication and transportation
Technology
• Technology is created and advances at an
amazing rate
• light bulb (electricity)
• radio
• television
• computers
• personal computers
Global Communication and
Transportation
• telephone
• radio and television
• computers – email and internet
• automobile
• airplane
Music Facts
• World music is greatly influenced by global
communication and transportation
• Sound recording industry is created
• Gap grows between classical and popular music
• Electric instruments are created (main reason for
gap)
Music Facts
• All sounds are possible – very experimental (no
rules)
• Dissonance is added in great amounts to classical
music
• Strong interest in folk music is explored in classical
music
• America and Britain become a strong music
influence
Instruments
• Player piano
• Electric guitar
• Electric keyboards (piano and organ)
Instruments
• Synthesizers (electric keyboards that imitate
sounds)
• Electric woodwinds
• Mixers
Composers
• Scott Joplin – father of ragtime
• George Gershwin – took jazz to the concert hall
(symphony)
• Aaron Copeland – classical, orchestral, folk
• Leonard Bernstein – orchestral, jazz influenced
Composers
• Duke Ellington – father of swing
• Igor Stravinsky – classical, orchestral
• Rogers & Hammerstein - musicals
• John Rutter - choral
Composers
• Andrew Lloyd Weber - musicals
• Elvis – blues, early rock
• Beatles – rock ‘n roll
• Michael Jackson – rock/pop
Composers
• Madonna - pop
• U2 – rock
• Rolling Stones - rock
• B.B. King – blues
• Pearl Jam - grunge
Music Styles
• Orchestral
• Choral & vocal
• Opera
• Revolutionary
• Folk – tells a story
Music Styles
• Blues – African American
• Gospel – African American Christian
• Rock ‘N Roll
• Jazz – African American
• Country