Music
Music of this time period, as with every time period, was a "new thing." This is not uncommon, because humans as a whole tend to continually come up with "new things" in their culture.
By this time, music style moved away from Baroque's structured style, though Romanticism's expression in music, and settled with the "emotions over structure."
There was a rise of a style of music called Ragtime at this time. There were a lot of songs composed in that style, such as "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin.
I personally love that song because it has a preppy tone, and there's not a crowding of notes, so it sounds airy while still having depth.
Scott Joplin lived from 1868 to 1917. He also wrote The Entertainer, which has the same airy tone as Maple Leaf Rag and is equally... entertaining. He wrote many operas, as well as ragtime music, on top of starting a band and teaching young, aspiring musicians whom he then composed songs with.
Interestingly, it seems that throughout a lot of this piano-playing and composing, he wasn't very good at music notation. (Music notation is basically the writing that goes on sheet music.)
He continued to compose, sell, compose, and sell ragtime music, including the Palm Leaf, Rose Leaf, and Fig Leaf Rags. He was quoted to have composed the "most American" opera, by the American Musician and Art Journal.
He died in 1917, but in 1970, there was a sudden push to revitalize ragtime, inspired by Scott Joplin's amazing works. That flopped, but it still shows how much influence he had on American Society. Both Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer gained spots on my piano's "Fifty Greats" book, and both are songs we still listen to today.
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was an influential French composer. He was notable for getting into the Paris Conservatory for his skilled piano playing at age 11, winning the Prix de Rome at age 22, being so influential in French music that "Debussysme" (Debussyism) became a common word, and recording his works on something called a Welte-Mignon. A Welte-Mignon was a device that was made for the purpose of recording songs, including dynamics, pedals, and phrasing, onto a roll as close as possible to what was actually being played on the piano. In this way, we can actually hear Claude Debussy play some of his famous songs, such as Golliwog's Cakewalk.
I could not find any information on music that was "post-impressionist" or "realist" so I simply searched for late 1800 - early 1900 music.
Music of this time period, as with every time period, was a "new thing." This is not uncommon, because humans as a whole tend to continually come up with "new things" in their culture.
By this time, music style moved away from Baroque's structured style, though Romanticism's expression in music, and settled with the "emotions over structure."
There was a rise of a style of music called Ragtime at this time. There were a lot of songs composed in that style, such as "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin.
I personally love that song because it has a preppy tone, and there's not a crowding of notes, so it sounds airy while still having depth.
Scott Joplin lived from 1868 to 1917. He also wrote The Entertainer, which has the same airy tone as Maple Leaf Rag and is equally... entertaining. He wrote many operas, as well as ragtime music, on top of starting a band and teaching young, aspiring musicians whom he then composed songs with.
Interestingly, it seems that throughout a lot of this piano-playing and composing, he wasn't very good at music notation. (Music notation is basically the writing that goes on sheet music.)
He continued to compose, sell, compose, and sell ragtime music, including the Palm Leaf, Rose Leaf, and Fig Leaf Rags. He was quoted to have composed the "most American" opera, by the American Musician and Art Journal.
He died in 1917, but in 1970, there was a sudden push to revitalize ragtime, inspired by Scott Joplin's amazing works. That flopped, but it still shows how much influence he had on American Society. Both Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer gained spots on my piano's "Fifty Greats" book, and both are songs we still listen to today.
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was an influential French composer. He was notable for getting into the Paris Conservatory for his skilled piano playing at age 11, winning the Prix de Rome at age 22, being so influential in French music that "Debussysme" (Debussyism) became a common word, and recording his works on something called a Welte-Mignon. A Welte-Mignon was a device that was made for the purpose of recording songs, including dynamics, pedals, and phrasing, onto a roll as close as possible to what was actually being played on the piano. In this way, we can actually hear Claude Debussy play some of his famous songs, such as Golliwog's Cakewalk.
I could not find any information on music that was "post-impressionist" or "realist" so I simply searched for late 1800 - early 1900 music.