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 costly 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 Schoenberg marked a change In style of composition which was to influence composers of his generation possibilities or experimenting. These included Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Bla BartГ¶k (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 totes, 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 the Inspiration for many more popular music genres, such as Jazz, rock ‘n roll, and (rhythm and blues). ‘Sass’ (more commonly known as Jazz) first appeared around 1915 In Chicago. It was hugely Influenced by the blues genre.
It made use of improvisation, syncopation (changing of beat) and the ‘swung note’ (slightly changing the length of some notes to imply a sense of ‘swing’). The instruments used most were piano and brass instruments, typically the trumpet or saxophone. This style bloomed in the USA in the sass’s and ass’s, even though it was seen as Immoral, and everyone was scared It threatened the social values of the youth. Jazz Inspired to some big sub-genres, Including swing, bebop, fusion, funk, boost nova and mambo. Some notorious Jazz artists were Louis Armstrong, Dizzied Gillespie and Charlie Parker.
The greatest of all Rock ‘n Roll music is one of the biggest musical styles that ever existed, and it has caused the appearance of many other genres. It bloomed In the early offs In the US use of electric guitars and bass guitars and a drum kit. Elvis Presley (1935-1977) is nearly accepted as the first musician to have acquired the status of an international superstar and sex symbol, helped by his music being broadcast on radio stations, appearances in Hollywood movies, and multi-million dollar sales of his records in various formats.
Parsley’s music and his on-stage performances were seen by some contemporary critics as obscene, yet more than three decades after his death, his influence remained profound. One of the biggest groups was inspired by Mr.. Presley; The Beetles. Their music dominated the whole world and their record sales went through every record ever set. They influenced people on a huge scale, from politics to fashion in the ass’s and early ass’s. Other important rock bands formed during the sass and sass included Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, The Who, The Rolling Stones.
Groups such as AC/DC transformed Rock and Roll into another form, Hard Rock, which later evolved into progressive rock, heavy metal, punk and grunge. More recently.. By the sass, pop music had come to be regarded as a soft genre of its own, which includes dance music, disco, hip hop, Latin and electronic. Innovations in retailing music, such as the CD and digital formats like the AMP and AMP made music ever ore accessible to growing global markets, where much promotional work was done through television, including specialist TV stations such as MET, first broadcast in 1981.
Artists such as Madonna, Michael Jackson and Kylie Ominous owe much of their popularity to music videos. Pop music in the ass’s continued to be the music that was popular in the sass’s and sass’s. Also, hip hop grew and continued to be really successful in the ass’s, with the continuation of the genre’s golden time. Aside from rap, R&B and urban music in general remained very much popular throughout the 90′; music in the late ass and as is often mixed with soul, funk and Jazz, resulting in several fusion genres like hip hop soul.
Like the ass’s, rock ‘n roll music was very popular in the ass, yet, unlike the New Wave and glam metal-dominated scene of the time, grunge, Britton, industrial rock and other alternative rock music emerged and took over as the most popular of the age. Electronic music, which had risen in popularity in the sass, grew highly popular in the sass; house and techno from the sass rose to international success in this decade, as well as new EDM genres such as trance, drum and bass, intelligent dance and trip hop.