The Arts : Popular Music

Modern Music was marked with experimentation in the 1930's. With the modern music, the atonal works, harmonies, and rhythms increased complexity because more and more composers to began to experiment. These creations were made increasingly with non-western techniques. Electronic msuic became increasingly popular. In this era of music making,around the 2nd half of the 20th century, a man by the name of John Cage believed that there should not be order to music. Music should be an outlet for emotion and creative expressions. Cage helped develope a new way to creating music that had no specific order and rejected old composers' structured techniques. Most popular music wasnt written down till years after they were composed. In the popular music era, new genres were introduced. New ideas and sounds began to take form in the new century. By the 2nd half of the 20th century, there were many different genres to chose to listen to, including ragtime, blues, jazz. Eventually, those genres were altered and became the base of our new music that we listen to today.

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