Music dates for Modernism and the Classical Tradition
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Created by:
jnoelliste on July 23, 2010
Subjects:
Chapter 31: A History of Western Music
Description:
In preparation for graduate entrance exams in Music History
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21 terms
English | Math / Symbols |
|---|---|
 Bela Bartok begins collecting peasant songs | 1904 |
| Arnold Schoenberg begins writes first atonal piece | 1908 |
| Charles Ives, The unanswered question | 1908 |
| Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird | 1910 |
| Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire | 1912 |
| Premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| Ives, General William Booth enters into heaven | 1914 |
| World War I | 1914-1918 |
| Alban Berg, Wozzeck | 1917-21 |
| Stravinsky begins Neoclassic period with Pulcinella | 1919-20 |
| Schoenberg writes first first 12-tone work, Piano suite, op.25 | 1921-23 |
| Anton Webern, Symphony, Op.21 | 1927-28 |
| New York stock market crash begins Great Depression | 1929 |
| Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms | 1930 |
| Hitler comes to power in Germany | 1933 |
| Schoenberg flees Germany, emigrates to United States | 1933 |
| Bartok, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta | 1936 |
| Germany absorbs Austria | 1938 |
| World War II | 1939-45 |
| Stravinsky and Bartok emigrate to the United States | 1940 |
| Stravinsky takes up serialism | 1950 |
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