Bertrand Russell reference
February 6th, 2007I just came across a welcome Betrand Russell reference in an introductory music book I have been reading: Introduction to Music.
The book gives a brief chapter-by-chapter overview of several periods of art and popular music in western culture. At the commencement of each chapter, a general list of important historical events of the era are chronologically listed. A portion of the list for the chapter entitled “American Popular Music and Jazz after 1900″ reads as follows:
1901: Queen Victoria dies; Edward VII becomes King of England; Planck developed Quantum Theory
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1905: Einstein, Special Theory of Relativity; first Russian Revolution
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1910: First subatomic particles discovered; Russell and Whitehead, Principia Mathematica; …
