 The American Company, Victor, introduces the first all-enclosed cabinet phonograph
that by 1907 was being widely advertised as the "Victrola" upright
with enclosed tapered horn; Victor Gould would spend $50,000,000 on print
advertising and $17,000,000 on catalogs and brochures by 1929, creating the
generic name Victrola that is applied to all phonograph players designed as
furniture.
 In August 1906, Mahler's 8th Symphony, also known as a Symphony of a
Thousand, is completed. Upon finishing, Gustav Mahler is quoted as
saying, "it is the greatest thing
I have yet done and so individual in content and form that I cannot describe
it in words." The huge scope for the symphony, the scale of the it's performance,
and the immediate popular reception of this symphony–more than any other of
Mahler's symphonies– is a shining example of the Jupiter archetype being excited
by Uranus.
 Igor Stravinsky receives his first important premiere; two movements
of his Symphony in Eb performed in St. Petersburg.
Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony causes a riot at its first performance in
1907 through its abandonment of the traditional concept of tonality.
Charles Ives completes
"Central Park in the Dark," and "The Unaswered Question," in 1906. Both pieces
show Ives's burgeoning use of polytonality: loose but carefully notated
superimpositions of stylistically distinct material in different meters and
keys.
With The Follies of 1907, theatrical producer Florenz Ziegfeld introduces
the musical revue to the American stage. Famous for their spectacular costumes
and extravagant sets, the successful revues became known as The Ziegfeld
Follies, which ran annually until Ziegfeld's death in 1932.
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