1. 1900-1999

2.  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)

3.  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

4.  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.

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

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

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