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  2. Nebular hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    As a result, astronomers largely abandoned this theory of planet formation at the beginning of the 20th century. According to some, a major critique came during the 19th century from James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), who in some sources is claimed to have maintained that different rotation between the inner and outer parts of a ring could not ...

  3. Dates of classical music eras - Wikipedia

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    Prehistoric music encompasses that music which existed prior to any historical record. Ancient music extended from approximately 1500 BCE until the fall of Rome in 476 CE. Modernist, and Postmodernist music have been tacitly combined under the 20th century banner as defined by the calendar. However postmodernist music constitutes a separate era ...

  4. Timeline of musical events - Wikipedia

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    Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas, with its multi-platinum lead single "All I Want for Christmas Is You", which eventually becomes the nineteenth best-selling digital single of the 20th century. Beck's major-label debut, Mellow Gold. The Prodigy's Music for the Jilted Generation. 1993 in music, 1993 in British music, 1993 in Norwegian music ...

  5. Outline of classical music - Wikipedia

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    Musica reservata – Style in a cappella vocal music of the latter half of the 16th century. Musical repertoire – Collection of music pieces played by an individual musician or ensemble, composed for a particular instrument or group of instruments, voice, or choir, or from a particular period or area.

  6. 20th-century classical music - Wikipedia

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    20th-century classical music is art music that was written between the years 1901 and 2000, inclusive. Musical style diverged during the 20th century as it never had ...

  7. Modernism (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in ...

  8. 20th-century music - Wikipedia

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    20th-century music. 11 languages. ... Contemporary classical music, covering the period c. 1970–2000; Sub-topics. Aleatoric music; Electronic music;

  9. History of music - Wikipedia

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    20th-century music brought new freedom and wide experimentation with new musical styles and forms that challenged the accepted rules of music of earlier periods. [ citation needed ] The invention of musical amplification and electronic instruments , especially the synthesizer, in the mid-20th century revolutionized classical and popular music ...