Much of the music of the 20th century is also tertian; but there is a good deal of music using chords built from 2nds, 4ths, and from combinations of various intervals.
Tertian triads and 7th chords are an important, though perhaps less preponderant, part of the harmonic vocabulary of 20th-century art music.
Tertian sonorities "taller" than the 7th chord--e.g., 9th, 11th and 13th chords--are not an important part of the harmonic vocabulary before the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
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