Music through the years…

Over the last few centuries, music has changed tremendously. If we compare the music from two centuries ago, we see how it has changed; the genres, the sounds, the artists, the styles. As music has changed, the people and their thoughts on what is good music and what is not have evolved as well. There are genres like classical, band & swing, jazz, blues, country, pop, hip-hop, rhythm & blues, reggae, alternative, rock, metal, latin, etc. All here to be experimented with and tampered to create a new sound.

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Two centuries ago the popular music that was out became known as classical music. There were composers like Ludwig Van Beethoven and John Braham that created masterpieces known today in various cartoons and is still used in symphonies. What composers of that time created was artistry of symphonic expression. Some of the popular pieces of art were expressionist styles. Expressionist styles were styles that made visualization of unconscious emotions and created a dream-like state. This means that the music was so luring that it made you visualize its story without a need for words.
The nineteenth century also produced a new way to record sound. In April of 1877 a Frenchman, Charles Cros, a poet and inventor of photographic colour processes proposed that Leon Scott’s method is improved by photoengraving the trace onto metal with the possibility of retracing the pattern resulting in the replay of the original sound. In July, Thomas Alva Edison, the prolific American inventor, di