In the 20th century, composers thought about different ... some composers wrote music that included microtones - intervals smaller than a semitone. The sound came across to the listener as dissonance.

Music in the 20th Century changed dramatically, due to the hostile political climate, advances in technology, and huge shifts in style. Many composers, struggling to build any further on the music of ...

To learn more about jazz and its impact, watch The Devil's Music: 1920s Jazz, the final film in the 4-part Culture Shock series. Early 20th century jazz clubs were deplored by some who considered ...

In one interview, he argued that early works mean little in the scope ... But Boulez was also interested in conducting earlier 20th-century music, as well as some established classics ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century ... so do campaigns to censor this "devil's music." Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor ...