20th+Century

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Important Events:
Electronics were used for the first time to change sounds and texts of music.

things that were happening in the world at this time:

[|Wright Brother first successful powered airplane flight-1903] The Wright Brothers first maned-flight was with a glider with a 17 foot wingspan.

[|San Francisco earthquake and fire-1906] The earthquake in San Francisco was a significant earthquake, because it was one of the largest earthquakes in history. It took 3,000 lives, made 225,000 injuries, and caused 400,000,000 dollars in damage. The fire was a more of a chinese ritual, that is preformed for the fire god, but because of the earthquake the fire was spread, and burnt down all of china town and some of the surrounding area.

[|Peary reaches the North Pole-1909] This was not Peary's first stab at getting to the North Pole, his first three tries fell short of the North Pole. By this time, to get to the North Pole, was a race for, Britain, Norway, and America. When Peary went to show his evidence that he had gone to the North Pole, another man named Fredrick A. Cook, claimed that he had made it to the North Pole in the previous year (1908). This crushed Peary, but after a while people started questioning Fredrick's claim. They questioned Fredrick, and since he didn't have a enough information to prove that he was there, Peary was marked the first man to reach the North Pole.

[|titanic disaster-1912] The Titanics main reason for sinking is because, the captain was ignoring ice warning, and was steaming too fast in dangerous waters.

[|First World War-1914] The main reason for the start of world war one was, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (the heir to the throne). 

Important People:
[|Philip Glass] One of the reasons Philip Glass was known is because of his Oscar Nomination for the film The Hour, [|Benjamen Britten] Benjamen Britten was a British composer, and has been around music since a child, and  [|John Cage], invented the Prepared Piano, this is where you place diverse objects between the strings of a grand piano, to put a percussion orchestra in the control of two hands. Those were a few famous musicians in the 20th century.

New Instruments:
 [|Electronic Keyboards], [|synthesizers], and [|electric guitars.] Amplifiers were also used for the first time in the 20th century.

New Styles of Music:
They used mouthpieces to play or sometimes they would gargle water in their mouth. Electronics were also used for the first time in the 20th century. And with the electronics Rock and Roll was born.

Listening examples:
[| 1st mvmt, Symphony (Op.21)] by Anton Webern, Anton was born in Austria, and published 75 works. All of these songs, put together, would only add up to a little less than an hour, each of them at the most, a little less than a minute.

[| 4'33"] (arranged for oboe and piano duet) by John Cage These examples were taken from hypermusic.ca