AOS4 GCSE AQA Music
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Updated: 18 Sep 2017
a timeline of modern Western Classical Music
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London Symphony Orchestra FoundedBBC FoundedAustrian composer
Arnold Schoenberg
published Book of
Hanging Gardens
which introduced
the concept of
dissonanceIn New York,
Julliard School opened and
George Gershwin's
Rhapsody in Blue
premiered18 year old American
Billie Holiday
creates her first
recordingsIn Nashville,
Tennessee. the
Grand Ole Opry
was founded.Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald
starts her career with the
Chick Webb orchestra.The debut of electric guitars.American composer
Samuel Barber premieres his
"Adagio for Strings"Charles Parker moved
to New York and
performed with
Dizzy Gillespie and
other jazzAmerican composer
Aaron Copland premieres his
"Appalachian Spring" balletAmerican composers Rodgers
and Hammerstein
open Oklahoma on BroadwayThe 33 1/3 LP,
or long-playing album,
was introduced by
Columbia Records.German composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen
composed "Karlheinz
Stockhausen's
Elektronische Studie I",
the first composition
using sine wave sounds.American group
Bill Haley and
the Comets
venture into the
rock n' roll music form.American Singer
Elvis Presley establishes
himself as the icon of
rock n' roll.American composer
Leonard Bernstein's
"West Side Story"
premieres.Berry Gordy, Jr.
founded the
Motown Recording
Corporation.The Big Three of Jazz was released:
'time out' by Dave Brubeck Quartet,
'a kind of blue' by Miles Davis
& 'the shape of jazz to come' by ornette colemanRussian composer
Segei Rachmaninoff
premiers his "Piano Concerto
No. 2"Russian composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff
premiers
"Rhapsody on a
Theme of Paganini"Russian composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff
premiers
"Symphony No. 3"Russian composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff
completes his final
work
"the Symphonic Dances"German composer
Richard Strauss Premiers
his opera "Der Rosenkavalier"German composer
Richard Strauss premiers
his opera "Elektra"Richard Strauss premieres
his opera "Die Frau
ohne Schatten"German composer
Richard Strauss premieres
his opera "Salome"British composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
premieres his composition
"The Lark Ascending"American composer
Aaron Copland
premieres his
"Billy the Kid" BalletJohnny Cash established
his stature as a
country music artist.American composer
Aaron Copland premieres
his "Rodeo" balletAmerican composer
Aaron Copland composed
his piece "Fanfare for
the Common Man"American Composer
Aaron Copland's
"Symphony No.3" premieresRussian composer
Igor Stravinsky premieres his
ballet "the Firebird"Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky premieres
his ballet
"the Rite of Spring"Austrian composer
Arnold Schoenberg premieres
his atonal work "Five Pieces for
Orchestra"Austrian composer
Arnold Schoenberg
premieres his atonal work
"Pierrot Lunaire"Austrian composer
Arnold Schoenberg
premieres his atonal work
"Erwartung"American Jazz Icon
Louis Armstrong is
bornRussian composer
Sergei Prokofiev
is bornGerman composer
Carl Orff is bornGeorge Washington Johnson
becomes the first
African-American
recording artist with his song
"the Whistling Coon"American composer Oscar
Hammerstein II is bornGerman composer Johannes Brahms
dies at the age of 63German composer Johannes Brahms
is bornRagtime Jazz becomes
a popular music form in
the USAAmerican composer George
Gershwin is bornAustrian composer Johann
Strauss died at the age of 73American Jazz bandleader
Duke Ellington is bornItalian operatic composer
Giuseppe Verdi died at
the age of 87Italian operatic composer
Giuseppe Verdi is bornAmerican composer
Richard Rodgers
is bornFrench composer Claude Debussy
premieres his opera "Pelléas et Mélisande"Russian composer
Dmitri Shostakovich is bornNorwegian composer
Edvard Greig died at the age of 64American jazz singer
Cab Calloway
is bornAmerican Jazz Bandleader
Benny Goodman is bornAmerican Blues Singer
Howlin' Wolf is BornAmerican Jazz Bandleader
Artie Shaw is bornFrench Gypsy Jazz guitarist
Django Reinhardt is bornAmerican record producer
John Hammond is bornLegendary American Blues
guitarist Robert Johnson is bornAustrian composer Gustav Mahler
dies at the age of 50Austrian composer
Gustav Mahler is bornAmerican Folk singer
Woody Guthrie is bornAmerican Blues guitarist
Lightnin' Hopkins is bornAmerican avant-garde
composer John Cage is bornAmerican Blues guitarist
Muddy Waters is bornAmerican song "Saint
Louis Blues" is publishedFirst Calypso music
recordings take placeAmerican blues singer Billie Holiday
is bornAmerican singer Frank Sinatra
is bornAmerican musician Tom Brown
begins to bill his group as a
'Jass band'American singer Ella Fitzgerald
is bornAmerican Blues guitarist
John Lee Hooker is bornAmerican Ragtime composer
Scott Joplin died at the age of 48The Original Dixieland Jass Band's
'Livery Stable Blues' becomes the
first Jazz record to be releasedThe Titanic SinkingMexican RevolutionThe Start of the First World WarBattle of SommeRoyal Family change their nameFirst Ever CrosswordEdwards IIV DiedFirst Ever Girl ScoutsLeague of NationsTreaty of VersaillesToaster Was InventedOlympic Games open in White City LondonParliament introduces pensionsEdward VII dies and is succeed by George VFirst men to reach the North PoleSalisbury Rail Crash - 28 diedPiccadilly Line opensOld Bailey opensFirst large suffragette movementFirst Rotary TelephoneAmerica Joined World War 1First Continental Phone CallFirst Zeppelin raid on LondonLabour Party FormedNew York subway openedTeddy Roosevelt becomes 24th Pres. of USALord Salisbury's Conservative party Re-electedWomen's Social and Political Union is formed to campaign for women's suffrageQueen Victoria DiesLouis is bornirish war of independence finishedwomen got the right to voteKing George V Opens new concrete tennis stadium at Wimbledon.women won the right to vote in EnglandThe first Olympic Winter Games took place in Chamonix and Haute-SavoieA.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" was publishedWorld War 2 startGandhi begins salt marchKFC foundedworld record 6 mile (29:36:4)Einstein Refrigeratorthe completion of the empire state buildinggandhi led the salt marchpluto was discoveredpenguin brought out there first paperback booksparker brothers introduced monopolynazi olympics took placethe hoover dam was completeww2 beganWorld War 2 endedUN was formedCold war startedStephen Hawking bornRoosevelt diedAuschwitz concentration camp builtD-DayBattle of BritainMircowaves ovens inventedBall point pens go on saleKorean War
StartsFailed assassination on
President Harry S trumanUS declined support to
Hungarian revolution
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