Timeline of trends in music (1900-1909)

Timeline of trends in music
Before 1799	1800-1899
1900-1909	1910-1919
1920-1929	1930-1939
1940-1949	1950-1959
1960-1969	1970-1979
1980-1989	1990-1999
2000-present
List of musical events
United States (To 1930 - to 1970 - To present)
Cuba

1900 in music

• Music of Argentina
  • The bandoneón begins to become popular in Argentina; it will soon become one of the principal instruments in tango music
• Music of Colombia
  • The accordion begins to become popular throughout the country
• Music of Cuba
  • Romantic ballads called boleros are developed
  • A second wave of Haitian immigrants bring tumba francesa to the Oriente
• Music of Indonesia
  • The developing form of kroncong is popular among the poor, urban people
• Music of Russia
  • Vassily Andreyev and Mitrofan Pyatnitsky found music groups as part of a cultural revival in traditional Russian music
• Music of Spain
  • Travelling troupes offering pop flamenco (Opera Flamenco) begin to achieve widespread popularity
• Music of Switzerland
  • The Swiss Musicians Association is founded
• Music of Trinidad and Tobago
  • First recorded use of the word "calypso"
• Music of the United States
  • Joseph Kekuku invents steel guitar by sliding a piece of steel across the strings of a slacked guitar; at about the same time, Hawaiian traditional music with English lyrics (hapa haole) was invented
  • The modern incarnation of Native American powwow music and dance arise

1901 in music

• Music of Puerto Rico
  • Commonly regarded as the beginning of plena music in Puerto Rico

1902 in music

• Music of the Dominican Republic
  • Juan F. García, Juan Espínola and Julio Alberto Hernandez, among others, begin trying to move merengue into mainstream ballrooms in the Dominican Republic; their attempt fails but is the beginning of merengue's eventual success outside of rural areas
• Music of India
  • Fred Gaisberg makes the first recordings of Indian music

1903 in music

• Music of Sri Lanka
  • A theatrical song called "Nurthi" is the first recording out of Sri Lanka

1904 in music

1905 in music

• Music of Tanzania
  • The Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club is founded; this is sometimes considered the birth of modern taarab

1906 in music

• International trends
  • Thaddeus Cadhill builds the first electronic instrument
• Music of Algeria
  • Cheikh Mohamed Senoussi is the first bedoui performer to record
• Music of Lithuania
  • Skriaudžiai kankles is formed and becomes a long-running and influential band
• Music of the United States
  • Early blues is sung and played by guitarists along the lower Mississippi River, also played by bands in New Orleans

1907 in music

• International trends
  • Ferruccio Busoni's essay "Entwurf einer neuen Aesthetic der Tonkunst" explains his unusual harmonic ideas, and is perhaps the earliest prediction of the development of electronic music
• Music of Mexico
  • General Porfirio Díaz legendarily orders a mariachi band to wear upper-class clothing (a charro suit) when they played for the visiting United States Secretary of State; this is the beginning of modern mariachi, as well as the traditional dress of future mariachi stars
• Music of the United States
  • Isaac Watts publishes the first collection of New England hymns, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

1908 in music

• International trends
  • Arnold Schoenberg's Book of Hanging Gardens revolutionizes classical music, replacing harmony and tonality with dissonance
• Music of the United States
  • Tin Pan Alley continues dominating the US music industry
  • Anthony Maggio publishes blues band orchestration "I Got the Blues"

1909 in music

• Music of Cuba
  • Son montuno reaches Havana from its origin in the Oriente province
• Music of Iceland
  • Bjarni Porsteinsson finishes publishing an anthology of folk songs
• Music of the United States
  • A song called "Uncle Josh in Society" is the first use of the term jazz (here used to refer to ragtime)