American Music Dbq

CH 16 Question 2 There are at least two factors, which are emigrated composers and academic supported modernist, that led to a widening gap between postwar composers and the audience. During the world war two, because of the war, an amount of emigrants coming from Europe settled down in American soil. Among those emigrants, There were some Europe's well known composers joining the development of the postwar classical music. Some of these composers disregarded the American music elements and still polished their music works with their "Old World" spectacular. This approach could be one of the factor that the gap with audience was formed. On the other hand, the modernist were known to be unwelcome by the public audience and the critics, but they found their way to flourish through the support of the academy. They settled in the academic world with their music considered as a scientific research. Eventually, the education spread and their development approach as a grounded independent music brought them a historical status as one of the

It is whether musical is a classical art form and whether musical at that time has the American elements that make it an American classical art form. The classical music art form usually contain classical instrument such as strings, brass, woodwind, percussion, and the main instruments usually are the violins. That is an orchestra is usually seen in the classical music, and a musical has an orchestra with acts works as movements in an long piece symphony. If we take away the vocal part, the musical will sound just like a typical classic music. This makes the musical an classical music with acts that indicate the meaning of the music. As for the unique American elements in the musical, we can identify that the musical infused the jazz and blue elements, which is originated in the U.S., into the music, and these justify that the musical is certainly an American classical art