People began wanting different music. So composers began to experiment with different things. Serious music was created, some enjoyed it, and other people thought of it as a strange world that shouldn't be opened. Regardless of what people thought this Serious Music was an umbrella term for used for music that implies advance theoretical and advance considerations. Eventually as times grew and people had more instruments, and thought of different ways they began to experiment with music even more.
One day there were different types of music such as jazz, folk music, ragtime, country and so on. All of these different types of music were formed by testing out sounds in different ways. Many people liked some of this music, and if not they liked another one. Many selections of music for many different types of people.
Ragtime music was created in 1897 and its down fall was about 1918. This music was up beat, and was influenced by African American music in the late 19Th century, coming from jigs and marching band music. This music influenced many other types of today's music.
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Ragtime music was soon taken over by a new music called Jazz. Jazz was a mixture of different types of music. It is influenced by African music as well. Music in New Orleans influenced Jazz a lot. During the Prohibition age Jazz music was huge in the speakeasies. Jazz had saxophones and other interesting instruments in it with interesting voices to go along with the music.
Blue's music came from African American orgin. It was based on spiritual songs, work songs,chants and other things. It was sad music and slow. Usually a guitar was played with this music. Blue's had a lot to say about things, and how everything was going in that time era. Folk music had a lot to do with culture. It was like stories passed on through song.
Popular music had such a high rise because it was so well liked. It had catchy tunes, easy to dance to different rhythms and so on. It is so interesting to see how music progressed so much through the years.
SOURCES:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz#Origins, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime#Musical_form, GOOGLE
