Are Electro-Acoustics and the Vernacular the Largets Developments in 20th Century Music?

Alec Robertson, Dennis Stevens, ed., A History of Music Volume 2 (New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1965), Pg. 85.

In the 19th century, industrialization spread like wild fire from “England continental Europe, the United States and Japan”. Factories became the norm for these countries as it made acquiring new resources and easier feet. These larger “corporations, monopolies, and cartels” led to the increasing decrease in small businesses. Everything in every day life was affected “it affected politics, Work, people standards of living, marriage” and even having children. During this time poverty was the largest socioeconomic group”. The Bouge was he was made up of professionals and merchants” while the lower class, or cousins, consisted of those who were artisans and shopkeepers. The industrial revolution lead to cities becoming vastly overpopulated and short periods of time. “To the ranks of margins, lawyers, doctors, and shopkeepers, there now were added industrialists, managers, government officials, white-collar workers, and skilled professionals and such field is engineering, architecture, accounting, chemistry, and higher education.” Due to the increase in such careers, this made up The middle class. The members of the social class control politics, influence music and art, and took advantage of the benefits given to them. Through this time instruments became mass produced which granted the opportunity for music making to be open to the masses. Some famous names associated with the music advancement are Sebastian of art, how do you like Stovel, and feeble Theobald boHem.

6. Is language a reliable demarcation of musical style in Europe? Why or why not?

Perhaps an even greater example of technology’s influence on the music industry is told with the

The year is 1960. You walk into the crowded concert, and take your seat as the sound of guitar riffs fill your ears. The crowd cheers, as the singer struts onstage with his guitar and starts to wave a tale with music as he sings along to his strumming guitar. This is early rock n’ roll. In this paper I will first tell you about the history of early rock and roll. Then I will tell you about the famous composers of this music style and the way it has impacted our society, in the past and present.

Conclusion: Music of the 20th century had a desire for change that people were intrigued by that persuaded them to join the change

Jones, A. (1999). Plunderphonics, Pataphysics & Pop Mechanics: An Introduction to Musique Actuelle. Nashville: Saf Publishing Ltd

Europe was not the only part of the world that experienced change in music. The United States also began a change in music that drastically improved the way we listen to, compose, and disperse music. Before the 1960s, there was an increase in different types of music that displayed characteristics much different from the nineteenth century and beyond. People began to play with tone, timing, rhythm and much more.

There have been many technological advances throughout that past four decades within music production and many have argued that without the boom of the digital culture the popular music of today not be as it is today. This paper will examine an extremely important technological change of the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties that has helped shape popular music of today.

This class is my first opportunity at exploring music through a broad and historical lens. Certainly I’ve learned plenty of information about how music is composed and what elements go into creating the music we have today. However, my favorite part of the class was learning about the history of American music and how it influenced culture. One could argue that culture affected music first, or vice versa. In my opinion, there are cases where both scenarios played out. In this paper, I will combine my thoughts with many of the details that we learned in class to show that sometimes music impacted culture first, and other times culture impacted music.

There are many elements that led to the expansion of music in the 20th Century. In some ways these elements were all linked to each other and it is difficult to say what events or ideas triggered the huge development of music. For example, World War I and II in the first half of the century lead to the rapid development of technology and communications as well as, eventually, political and social freedom, all aspects which have created changes and growth. The great advances in technology were in part responsible for globalism, although nationalism was also partly a product of the wars. The advent of the Great Wars also produced great emotion.

The advancement of technology has had a major role in changing the culture of music since 1945.

At this time last year, I would have considered all music before the 20th century to be classical. However, after taking a Dual Credit Music Appreciation course, I realized that “old” music cannot simply be grouped into a single category. There are so many differences that I had no idea existed. Throughout the years, music has changed and evolved, meeting the needs of listeners and performers. Different composers have been catalysts in this change as they have developed new styles and genres. Even though the classical period is directly subsequent of the baroque period, baroque and classical music have countless different qualities and characteristics.

1. Briefly describe the status of music in relation to the other arts in the nineteenth century.

Music from all over the world presents a range of musical theories. Some of these are documented in writing whilst others are transmitted orally. Discuss and give examples with reference to both Western and non-Western music.