Timeline Of Trends In Music (1900-1909)

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. Garca, Juan Espnola 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
• Music of the United States
• The most popular fusion of schottische and ragtime, "Any Rags" by Thomas S. Allen, becomes a major hit

1903 in music

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

1904 in music

• Music of Spain
• A recording by the choral group Aires d'a Terra from Pontevedra is the first commercial recording of Galician music
• Perfecto Feijoo records the hurdy gurdy for the first time

1905 in music

• Music of Lithuania
• The nationalist society Daina is registered as a church choir with the Russian government
• 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

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)

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