1910s
- 1919 in music - Birth of Pete Seeger, Merce Cunningham, Carl Ruggles, Toys
- 1918 in music - Phonograph cylinders become obsolete; the Society for Private Musical Performances is founded in Vienna by Arnold Schoenberg; Death of Claude Debussy
- 1917 in music - Birth of Lou Harrison, John Lee Hooker, Dinu Lipatti, Isang Yun; First hit jazz recordings by Original Dixieland Jass Band, Death of Scott Joplin
- 1916 in music -Birth of Milton Babbitt, Henri Dutilleux, Alberto Ginastera, Betty Grable, Harry James, Dinah Shore,
- 1915 in music - Birth of Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, John Serry, Sr.; Tom Brown starts billing his group as a "Jass Band"
- 1914 in music - "St. Louis Blues" published; first calypso music recordings
- 1913 in music - Birth of Muddy Waters, Vinicius de Moraes; Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
- 1912 in music - Birth of Woody Guthrie, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Cage
- 1911 in music - Birth of Robert Johnson, Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden, Death of Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor
- 1910 in music - Birth of Howlin' Wolf, Artie Shaw, John H. Hammond, Django Reinhardt
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