TWENTY FIRST CENTURY MUSICAL GENRE: A REFLECTION OF MUSICOLOGISTS DISCONTENT

OLALEYE, O.A (2017) TWENTY FIRST CENTURY MUSICAL GENRE: A REFLECTION OF MUSICOLOGISTS DISCONTENT. In: The Second Biennial International Conference, Faculty of Arts, May, 22nd -24th, 2017, University of Ibadan.

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Abstract

At various times in the history of human race, one of the means through which humanity expresses the deeper, if not the deepest, part of their souls and feelings is through music. Music expression goes beyond what words, pictures, sculpture and painting among others can do. That is why music in its various forms and versions due to human diversity continues to attract attention and the engagement of human reasoning, intellect, and potentials or talents. A number of general trends complement the characteristics diversity of music in different centuries, and they do not form a clear chronological sequence, instead, they are overlapping in development. Each generation of composers expresses different ideas, and within each generation several styles existed concurrently, while some important composers exploited and adopted more than one style during the course of a productive lifetime. In the various epochs in the history of music, each era seems to have developed general musical styles that constituted a sort of synthesis of what that age is believed to be the norm, or model, for the music of that time. However, this is not so for the twentieth century, because there are web of mixture of musical styles born out human discontents and experimentation of strange ideas in music. Such bewildering and mystifying variety of styles includes; avant garde, atonal music, electronic music, neo-classicism, chance music, impressionism, expressionism, computer generated music, aleatonic, and musique concrete.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects: M Music and Books on Music > M Music
M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature of music
M Music and Books on Music > MT Musical instruction and study
Divisions: Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Art
Depositing User: Mr Taiwo Egbeyemi
Date Deposited: 15 Jun 2021 14:38
Last Modified: 15 Jun 2021 14:38
URI: http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/1716

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