From Vaudeville, Broadway, and Hollywood musical movies, to ragtime, jazz, swing, and rock and roll, all the way to television variety shows after the depression; the pianos of Tin Pan Alley are credited for laying the foundation for the many entertainments that have endured for over two hundred years. Before radio, people had pianos for entertainment purposes. This made Tin Pan Alley’s technique of having musicians pump out songs to then sell sheet music to consumers profitable since more often than not Tin Pan Alley’s publishers only paid a modest flat rate per song. The publishers had “pluggers” that they would pay to incorporate songs into acts in front of consumers. In doing this they created a synergy with the live entertainment industry that got consumers to buy sheet music as well as tickets to live entertainment acts.
Music was an essential part of civic, religious, and courtly life in the Renaissance. The rich interchange of ideas in Europe, as well as political, economic, and religious events in the period 1400–1600 led to major changes in styles of composing, methods of disseminating music, new musical genres, and the development of musical instruments. The most important music of the early Renaissance was composed for use by the church—polyphonic (made up of several simultaneous melodies) masses and motets in Latin for important churches and court chapels. By the end of the sixteenth century, however, patronage was split among many areas: the Catholic Church, Protestant churches and courts, wealthy amateurs, and music printing—all were sources of income for composers. The early fifteenth century was dominated initially by English and then Northern European composers.
The substantial increase in population due to immigration that occurs during this time goes on to affect the nation in positive and negative ways. Some of the adverse affects of such a rapid growth in population were overcrowding in cities, lack of jobs, and occasional food shortages. But the hard working spirit and work ethic that the immigrants brought, along with a determined will to succeed, were an overarching positive were crucial to the country becoming what it is today. In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and emigrate to the United States. Immigrants entered into the United States through several
Music SA #3 The Baroque period saw many changes in music elements, styles, instrument craftsmanship, composer’s roles in societies and it saw the rise in opera. Opera is a dramatic production sung throughout. Opera changed the musical scene, as people knew it. Before this period performance music was mostly used in religious settings or for the very rich or noble classes. The composers of opera were trying to reproduce what they thought was classical Greek theater.
Middle ages music period extends from 500 AD to 1400 AD, while the Renaissance music is from the 1400 AD to 1600 AD. Renaissance was about rebirth. Medieval period is the foundation that was laid for the notational and theoretical practices that shaped western music into what it is today. Music of the middle Ages made great advancements in regard to tonal material, texture, and rhythm.The church was majorly affected by the development of music, the first major type of music of this time was chanting. The early Christians inherited the Jewish chants of synagogues.
Initially, the arts were normally reserved for many formal, religious occasions, and were never really practiced for leisure under the British crown. In Colonial America however, there were schools created for the earliest of choral societies, and the most famous of musicians of the time period stressed the creation of music for self expression and leisure. Traveling operas were created; actors performed stage shows, and entertained the colonists from town to town. Due to the harsh climate that the early settlers endured, music became a welcoming escape, and an attractive hobby that many took up for themselves. The creation of arts and crafts became a trending sensation in Colonial America.
This movement shows itself in the painting and sculpture of Michelangelo, the plays of Shakespeare, and in both the sacred and secular dance and vocal music of the greatest composers of the era. During this period, people in the world when their own lives and their music reflected the exciting discoveries. Beginning of this period;the renessiance mostly used for religious purposes but at the end of this period,the renessiance was more mundane purposes,has become an entertainment tool. I think that The Renaissance,is the most lyrics periods in the history of western and artists of all kinds in Western Europe became more aware of the classical past and the world beyond the narrow confines of medieval theology.In this
During the 1920s era, religion in America experienced a cultural revolution. In the roaring twenties, religion was greatly affected by immigration, the more the people, and the more the religion differences. Not everyone agreed on the same beliefs. The establishment of mass cultural for the first time in the United States had an effect on religion also. By the spread of the radio, tension was caused between rural and urban areas because of new ideas and values everyone had.
During the 19th century, more regular people began getting involved in music by participating in amateur choirs or joining brass bands. By the early 1900s, the big trends in popular music were the increasing popularity of vaudeville theatres and dance halls and the new invention—the gramophone player. By 1920 there were almost 80 record companies in Britain, and almost 200 in the USA. Radio broadcasting of music, which began in the early 1920s, helped to spread popular songs to a huge audience. In the 1950s and 1960s, television began to play an increasingly important role in distributing new popular music.
Western society references musical instruments for the purpose of dancing and creating praiseworthy music and dates as far back as ancient Israel, where King David’s Psalms encouraged followers to praise the lord with strumming of strings and the clashing of cymbals (Psalms 150). Music has only become more complex and integrated to culture since then, playing unique roles from era to era. As a whole, today modern and post-modern music is as important to societal functionality as it ever was, but in recent eras easier access to music itself has blurred the lines between what would have been known as accessible and egalitarian, and what is complex and dangerous. Certainly a modern analysis of the broad trends of music would reveal that social and political movements have motivated this progression, and composers are evidently now able to communicate their art through expression rather than the narrow metanarratives found in politics, complexity for the sake of complexity (The Composer as a Specialist) or beauty for the sake of beauty. If postmodernism rejects these narratives, the lines become nuanced and this might suggest an end of history for music – or perhaps a new development completely incomprehensible to today’s ear.