quarta-feira, 26 de setembro de 2012

How did Music change during Industrial Revolution ?



In this period of British music, the main instrument used to create melodies was the piano. It was invented in 1700 and had a huge importance concerning the increasing quality of music.   

 However, by the 1830's musicians felt the necessity to have louder instruments, instruments that could be heard in huge concert halls due to their bigger power comparing to the ones that used to be played. Instead of losing musical tone they wanted to keep it and add volume to it creating better melodies. The Steinway family largely improved the quality of the piano that were made in those days to meet this demand and registered their new improvements. The result was the creation of more sophisticated instruments that could be heard in large rooms as they were meant to be.

These creations allowed many musicians to create new melodies and improve the old ones, making possible to diversify music in different genres. After Industrial Revolution many genres were created such as British dance band (a genre of popular jazz and dance music that developed in British dance halls and hotel ballrooms during the 1920s and 1930s) what led to huge changes in the way how music was interpreted as cultural patrimony.

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  1. Mass culture was the engine of several art forms. Music was also affected by this massive approach to cultural life. The Indutrial Revolution brought a wider spectrum in terms of sounds... it all began with the steam engine in factories and ended up concert halls where different social classes had full access to new genres.

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