THE END

I. The END of ART/Decadence in Europe [Spengler's conclusion]:  RMo Mo AH Mo

Europe - Wagner, Mahler, Strauss

CRISIS

II.  Incursions from the rest of the world - 1880-1920

American folk and popular music - spirituals, blues, ragtime
American art music - Ives
Russian folk and art music  - Mussorgsky AH

III.  Revolution?

A.  Paris in all the arts - 1900-1920  AH M Mo R R RAH AH R R

World's Fairs - African art, Javanese music
Art Music - Debussy, Stravinsky

B.  Vienna - 1900-1920 - arts, culture, psychology  MoMoMo RR

Art music and other arts - Kandinsky, Freud, Schoenberg

MODERNISM Mo

IV. Neo-Classics - 1920-1950 Mo R RAH RAHM

Art music - Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Bartok
Popular music - Tin Pan Alley, musicals, Gershwin
Jazz - origins of jazz to Swing, Ellington

CRISIS

V.  Music in the Age of Anxiety:  1950+  R AH R R R  R

Art music - electronic, serial, chance
Jazz - Bop
Popular music -  Rhythm and Blues to Elvis

POSTMODERNISM Mo

VI.  Broadening - 1960s

Art music - innovations, pluralism - Berio, Foss, Stockhausen, Crumb, Davies
Popular music - Beatles
Music of African-Americans - Soul

VII.  The Dawning of the Age of Acquarius - 1970s-1980s  Mo AH AH R R Mo

Art Music - simplicity, external world -  Ligeti, Penderecki, Nono, Reich and Glass
Popular music - Folk, protest, hard metal

VIII.  Post-Modernism and Multi-Culturalism - 1980s-1990s R R R R R R R R R R AH AH

Pop  P W Af
Postmodernism - TODAY

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