Timeline of trends in music (1900-1909)
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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
- 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)