The Change of Music

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What has been the change of music over the past 100 years?

How it began..
Music taste changes over the years, it always has and it always will. The youth enjoys a certain style of music and they become the elderly after time. The 20th century has featured a huge range of different music styles, mainly because of the huge technological advancements made during the century. These technological enhancements made music recording and broadcasting more accessible to most people, which in turn allowed music to spread all over the world, and allowed artist to become world famous. In the beginning of the century, the music scene was still mostly dominated with music that had been dominating the scene for the last 200 years. Classical music, played by big orchestras in even bigger music halls. On the other hand, a more accessible style of music started to develop. There was a rise of ‘low-brow, popular’ music played in Vaudeville Theaters in America en Music Halls in England, where singers would perform accessible songs that achieved popularity outside the social elite. For classical music, Arnold Shoenberg marked a change in style of composition which was to influence composers of his generation possibilities for experimenting. These included Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Béla Bartók (1881-1945), and Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) who started experimenting with form and tone. Blues and its friends

There were even greater developments in ‘pop’ (popular) music. One of the biggest development was ‘blues’. This slavery-inspired music originated from the African-American society in the late 19th century, but did not really bloom until after World War 1. At its peak, they changed from country-blues (acoustic) to urban blues (electronic) as technology advanced. Blues is characterized by the use of the blue notes, which are neither major, nor minor and the most common 12-bar blues chord progression. Blues is typically performed by a guitar, a piano and a brass section. Blues was...
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