...Music in western civilization in 20th century Music is defined as sounds that are arranged in a particular pattern in which when played are exciting to hear or listen to. Music is commonly used as a form or relaxation and entertainment. The chronology of music started way back in the period of the medieval times when the chanting was introduced into most of the catholic churches. Music then had moved through the following stages up to until the modern day music (Burkholder, Grout & Palisca 2010, p. 276). It originated in the medieval era then moved to the renaissance, baroque, classical music which ushered in the romantic music which in turn paved way to the modern music and hence the contemporary music of the 20th century. Medieval music traces back to times when music was only done to kings and queens or generally the royal people. It later found its way to liturgical platforms where the music was introduced to the Roman Catholic churches as this time Christianity was real emerging. During this time many musical artists were priests or members of the clergy. As the music entered the renaissance era the printing media had already been established. There emerged a class of composers from the western nations of for instance France Belgium Netherlands etc. Music in this era had become strong with especially the use of instruments. This included the a cappella. As the music moved on to the baroque era it had started to be used to bring a certain mood. The music composers used...
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...Essay Throughout history music has accompanied Humanity in many different forms and styles. From Medieval and Baroque to Classical and Romantic, the genres we’ve seen in the past are largely similar in their foundations, with variations in theme and style that appropriately reflected moods of the time period. The music of today however, known as the Modern period, is much unlike the others. The introduction of Jazz music in the early 20th Century has sculpted what we know music as today. As a style that has evolved over time, people aren’t able to pinpoint a specific moment where Jazz was first played. Although, most accept it was initially developed in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz music at its core is a unique combination of both European and African musical elements. It takes its “rhythm and feel” component from African music. Additionally, the component of harmony -- that is, the chords that accompany the melody of the tune (usually played on the piano) -- and various instruments, such as the saxophone, trumpet, and piano, are borrowed from European music. While Jazz initially only saw popularity in a small minority of communities throughout the American South, it soon grew far beyond those reaches, developing many alternate styles of its own as it was introduced to new corners of society. Some examples include: Swing, Ragtime, Bossa Nova, Blues and Bebop. Classic jazz and its alternates are the facilitators of the evolution of popular music. While rock is considered...
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...Contemporary Music -Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism.[1] However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms. -Contemporary music is the music that was developed in the early 20th century around the world with little influence from the European style and elements. Several musicians both classical, neo classical, developed different styles of the music experimenting with a bit of creativity in the process. The music was recorded on tapes and was available from all over, yet varied. -Contemporary music describes popular music presently enjoyed right now in this era. Contemporary means modern, and living or existing in the same time. -Contemporary Music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid 1970's with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms. Contemporary music is current or modern music. Most top 100 or 40 lists are based on contemporary and commercial music. This is music that pertains to today's sound and events. Generally "contemporary classical music" amounts to: The modern forms of art music The post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern[3] (including serial music, electroacoustic music, musique concrète, experimental music, atonal music, minimalist music, etc.) ...
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...The Evolution of Jazz and its Modern Influence Jazz is a music art form that was created solely in America. It is considered to be one of the most influential forms of music in American history. Not only did it originate in America but it is also one of the few art forms that have two distinctive sounds. The jazz sound is separated into classical jazz and jazz fusion (modern) jazz. Jazz is also one of the only forms of music for which college music majors are required to study several artists’ techniques as a semester course. Jazz music has been used in many forms of music in America. With all the respect that jazz has garnered around the world, unfortunately, the art form has lost popularity over the last 20 years. With the emergence of hip-hop, techno, and other music forms, young musicians of today do not find the music appealing or relevant. All the awards for jazz musicians have been moved off the national television award shows. There is also a movement to remove the jazz categories from the Grammy list completely. This paper will discuss the history of jazz, where it began, how it evolved, and its future. To understand the future of jazz, one must understand what it really is and the instruments that were combined to make the ensemble. Jazz started to form early in the twentieth century in New Orleans. At that time, the sound was called Ragtime. This sound was produced by a band that included the string bass, drums, a guitar or banjo, and a "melodic section" with one...
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...Analysis of Music Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation One of the advantages of breaking rules and exploring beyond is that one comes out with something that has never been experienced before. For this reason, Beethoven and The Beatles established themselves in the music industry because they created a norm that every new artiste followed. Composers that followed them always tried to be like them. On the other hand, there is a cost in breaking the existing musical rules. People always want to hear what they love from their past musical experiences. Introducing a new genre may not auger well with the popular style. Despite being radical composer, Beethoven actually composed what people liked. R. Murray Schafer has been successful in breaking the musical composition rules. One of his radical music was East, composed in the year 1972. It was totally different from the traditional techniques at that time. It had slow glissandos and the performers sung and hummed on top of playing the instruments. Generally, Murray employed his compositional creativity to challenge his listeners as well as the performers of his music. The spice girls joined the Pop music in the 90s and became successful. Their strength was largely due to the perfect combination of each individual talent and voice in addition to their youthful vigor. Michael Jackson broke the rules of the existing Pop music and introduced a style that was outstanding for four decades. Michael introduced sophisticated...
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...What is country music? Once formally called Country and Western music, has now been shortened to Country music. According to dictionary.com, “Country music is a style and genre of largely string- accompanied American popular music having roots in the folk music of the Southeast and cowboy music of the West, usually vocalized, generally simple in form and harmony, and typidied by romantic or melancholy ballads accompanied by acoustic or electric guitar, banjo, violin, and harmonica.” People often think of country music as being “redneck” or “hillbilly” music. Country music, country and western music, is very unique in its genre. I believe that it has two separate meanings relating to them. The country aspect relating to love, family, and hard times, while, the western aspect relates to the American West and cowboy themes. In the lyrics of old time traditional country music, it pulled you into the heart of the song with the raw emotion that the country singer held in their voice. The lyrics held a story line throughout the song. For example when listening to Hank Williams song “There’s a Tear in my Beer,” you can hear the acoustic guitar and emotion in the lyrics. “There’s a tear in my beer, ‘cause I’m cryin’ for you dear. You are on my lonely mind.” The traditional old country music was melancholy. The sadness came through in the song. Another example is in Patsy Cline’s “I Fall to Pieces.” The lyrics have emotion and sadness. “I fall to pieces. Each time I see you again. I...
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...For my Genius Hour proposal, my essential question I will try to answer is “How is African music similar to modern music today and how has it influenced the music we play?” This topic is very interesting to me because I play an instrument and I love music. I also though in my mind that I would like to study more about West African music and it’s influence on today’s music. I think that many people love listening to music or creating music, but they don’t know some of its origins and places it came from. For example, many people love Dixieland, jazz, pop, blues, and rock music. If you had asked them if they knew that African music influenced those types of music genres, it would be likely that they didn’t know the music had African roots...
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...Modern American music is one of the greatest contribution to the arts in the United States’ history, but it wasn’t developed overnight. The origin story of modern American music, and all of its genres, is a long one filled with tragedy, exploration, and a fusion of cultures. While many of people have a particular genre of music they like more than the others, it’s appalling that they don’t know how these pieces of art were constructed for their enjoyment. Before people can learn about the development of modern American music, they must first learn about the origin of music itself. It’s safe to assume that ever since human beings have been on this planet we’ve been humming a tune or tapping a beat. However, the first documented record of music came from ancient Mesopotamia in the form of religious chant. It is very...
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...salsa with the modern twist of pop and hip-hop to create a very unique sound. Their large set list was composed of bands such as The Black Keys, TV On the Radio, LCD Sound system and others. Many scholars have argued that WSO’s debut album “resets the boundaries of the art form” and “contains some of the best young players on the scene”. The band seemed to really connect with the audience, creating a familiar vibe with modern songs with such a balanced touch of salsa sound to grab...
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...The intent of music is to capture emotion and share it with the listener, so they can understand the experience being expressed by the artist. Music is used as white noise in the grocery store or at the gym. While people see music as a waste of time causing people to spend millions of dollars on useless soundtracks that you love at the moment but will be tired of in a week. For these reasons, music is worthless because it has lost its original intent. The dominating modern genre of music known as pop, though popular, has become redundant. Lyrically, modern artists focus on the same topics of drugs, sex, and lustful love. For instance, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were taken to court over the similarities between their song Blurred Lines...
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...physically express themselves without using words. These are times when simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words (Humphrey, 1937). A great deal can be understood when a person watches a person dances. The message that is related is strong and clear. When you understand the types of dance the message is clear. I will attempt to examine the different forms of dance. We will look at the forms of dance like Ballet, Modern World/Ritual, Folk, and jazz. Never the less it helps construct a better understanding of the different forms. Ballet During the 15th century in Italy ballet was known as court dancing. The word “Ballet” comes from the Italian form of Ballare which means dance. The first dance was in France in 1581. The French created the first ballet called “La Ballet Domique de La Reine” This caught on fast which prompted Louise Xiv to start the Royal Academy of Dance in 1661. Ballet caught on quick and spread from country to country when the story line and rhythm is expressed it uses eight basic positions to do this. Swiveling on their toes and balancing is critical to perform these dances. Over the ages these have been two great Ballets that are performed across the country and they are in high demand. They are the “Nutcracker and Swan Lake”. Modern Dance The 20th century is known as the Modern dance aria. However ballet and modern dance are very different. Modern dance is more of free style and individualistic. The major...
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...ways western society was conducting itself. Leading this group of intellectuals was Friedrich Nietzsche. In Nietzsche’s views he felt society had become degenerate and insipid. With the lack of modern myth there was nothing for society to live for and would soon collapse on itself. Thus, Nietzsche felt western culture was disenchanted. However, Nietzsche saw a glimmer of hope with German music that was being created at the time. Through German music, western society would become re-enchanted and bring the tragic myth back into western culture. Another important thinker of the time was Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky had similar views to Nietzsche in that society was disenchanted. Kandinsky felt the materialism society had succumbed to was trapping the soul in artificiality. There was no forward movement because there was nothing to really live for with society’s focus on artificial objects that truly do not matter. Also like Nietzsche, Kandinsky felt there was room for re-enchantment. Kandinsky felt abstract art would lead the observers inward and satisfy their inner need by causing spiritual vibrations of the soul. Thus both Nietzsche and Kandinsky were very similar in that they both felt society was disenchanted, but could become re-enchanted through art for Kandinsky and music for Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s views had elements of both disenchantment and re-enchantment. In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche represented disenchantment as the death of Greek tragedy and the tragic...
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...Music is an integral part of our life. We can hear music everywhere: in the streets and at home, over the radio and on TV, in the shops and in the parks. People all over the world are fond of music. They listen to music, they dance to music, they learn to play musical instruments. It is varied because it reflects different human emotions. If we ask several people what kind of music they like, all of them will give different answers. Tastes differ. But the world of music is boundless and everybody can find there something that satisfies his tastes and demands. And all the people will agree that our world will be dull without music. We enjoy music because it influences our mood and imagination, reflects our inner state and character, arouses deep emotions and makes us think. It helps us to remove from tiredness and tension or find new strength, get new energy and optimism. Specialists explain that music isn't only a combination of pleasant sounds. It is an art which reflects life. There are a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them appeared long ago, and some are modern. For example, folk music appeared long ago, but it is still alive. There are many local performers, choirs and folk groups in Russia. Folk songs are very tuneful and pleasant to listen to. Classical music is often associated with the music of the past. However, this style also includes music being written now, and we may speak of modern classical music. Rap is a modern musical style where the singer speaks...
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...Renaissance Time Capsule Rodney A. Mathis HUM/102 June 2, 2014 Dr. Julie Kares Renaissance Time Capsule As part of my introduction to humanities class, I was required to probe for a concealed time capsule from both the Renaissance and the Baroque ages. Thereafter, I was required to identify at least two examples of art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature depicted during the periods. By doing so, I expected to identify how these examples reflected world events and cultural blueprints of their periods. The Renaissance refers to the cultural transformations witnessed in Europe between the fourteen-century and the sixteen-century (Cheremeteff, 2000). The transformations originated in Italy before spreading to the other parts of Europe. Owing to the transformations, Europe came out of the economic crisis experienced during the middle ages. As such, the period was marked by robust financial growth. Similarly, the period saw changes in art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature. On the other hand, the Baroque refers to the cultural style witnessed in Europe between the 17th century and the mid 18th century (Cheremeteff, 2000). The style was depicted by the use of overstated motion and interpreted features to create stage shows, tension, enthusiasm, and sumptuousness from monuments, work of arts, literature, and songs. Detailed below is what I expect to unravel from the two time capsules. Art From the Renaissance period, I expect to find the Last supper...
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...American culture Nineties and eighties incidents, people and ideas made a great influence on modern American culture like family life and gender roles, music, fashion, film and television. This transactions started in Nineties with President Ronald Reagan and his economic policy called reaganoimcs. Which include more military spending to fight back communism, it helped to stabilize economy after the eighties’ stock market crash and more. At the same time, changes in music and other trends began to influence on nineties people, especially teenagers. Music and music artists had a great influence on nineties fashion, as well as modern fashion. And also, movies like horror genre became more successful. Both movie and television reflected more of reality than written scripts. Family life and gender roles started changing in nineties. Women were secure in their working roles and were not afraid to show their femaleness. This leaded to increase in gender equity. Most of them were two income families, which raised the chances for divorce. Husband and wife shared their household and child care responsibility equally. Nineties women became less dependent on men. Women are allowed to do anything that a male can do. Nineties people put more importance to their carrier than family and became selfish with no humanity. For example, in the movie American psycho, Patrick spend most of his time with his friends and discuss about who had the better suit, business card, and superior restaurant...
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