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One   Jack Logan, Ph. D.  Every serious artist strives toward a
poetic, a longing, a murmur of the soul, a bonding of art and
self. . .  --John Silber  When we consider modern music as we
begin a new millennium such names as Madonna, Garth Brooks, and
the Goo Goo Dolls, as well as others, come to mind. Here, we'll
try to determine why the music of these artists sounds as it
does and has the emotional impact on us that it does by
considering the music of the early part of the 20th century.
Individuality and the Modern World  The world of Arnold
Schoenberg (1874-1951), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Igor
Stravinsky (1882-1971), Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954),Edgard
Varese (1883-1965), Harry Partch (1901-1974), and Louis
"Satchmo" Armstrong (West End Blues) (1901-1971) was profoundly
different from the current World of the present. In the 1990s
man reached the stars with the NASA Space Program, bringing
space travel within reach, if not within the eco