 More inventions or technological improvements were made during this time period than ever in history.  Electric lighting  Affordable automobiles  Airplanes  Radio  Television  Motion pictures (movies)

 Symbolist poets used intense imagery.  Cubist artists depicted subjects with geometrical shapes  Musical comedies, or musicals, featured popular songs and dances in the context of spoken plays with comic or romantic plots.  Nazis value classical music

 Films (movies) give way to a new music genre  Silent films required music to cover up the sound of the film reel.  When sound was added, it allowed music to enhance emotion that the director wanted the audience to feel about a particular scene.

 Derived from Ragtime and Blues  From New Orleans  Incorporated syncopation and improvisation

 Still a focus on folk music  Infused into new compositions  Aaron Copeland, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Sergei Rachmaninov, Benjamin Britten,

 New forms created  Experimentation with sound  Serialism and Minimalism