The Diffusion of Classical and Popular Music in Selected Works in the Early 20th Century Cover Image

Difúzie klasickej a populárnej hudby vo vybraných dielach raného 20. storočia
The Diffusion of Classical and Popular Music in Selected Works in the Early 20th Century

Author(s): Silvia Adamová
Subject(s): Music, History of Art
Published by: Ústav hudobnej vedy Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: jazz; musical modernism; artists; compositions; analysis; comparison

Summary/Abstract: In the early 20th century there was an intensive overlapping of elements of the newly-forming style of popular music called jazz with the individual compositional styles of American and European composers of musical modernism. We can observe the diffusion, in all components of the musical structure, in many works by more or less well-known composers. While some of them were programmatically devoted to a synthesis of jazz and musical modernism in the whole of their output, for others this happened only exceptionally. The study contains analyses and comparison of selected works from the early 20th century, which show features of genre diffusion (Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Erwin Schulhoff, Darius Milhaud, Bohuslav Martinů, George Gershwin).

  • Issue Year: 9/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 238-270
  • Page Count: 33
  • Language: Slovak