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Western Art Music; a general term for describing the most influential songs and pieces curated throughout the 18th and 19th century in the western world. Today, we would call this classical music. Many of the classical songs I heard used the unbroken grand piano. I believe composers relied on this instrument as if it were the door way for authentic craft in music. It’s gentle and heavy chords make it more capable to design tone, in which it does so with intensity. The moments of intensity and silence in most classical pieces would send signals throughout my body so the sound stirred me inside. Most importantly, classical music went at whatever pace it chose. Our Modern music heavily relies on a steady rhythm from a drum kit. Compared to previous centuries, the music was not dictated by the rhythm of the drum. Instead, the absence of the drum helped classical pieces feel more “moving” and significant. Western Art Music was made for us to wholly listen to, driven mostly by its harmonics and less of how easily it catches us.

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"[Victors] instill the belief that their victory was somehow inevitable."
-Sara Haefeli (Ithaca College), If History Is Written by the Victors

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"The losers are the genres and styles that are left out of our mainstream study of music history." -Sara Haefeli (Ithaca College), If History Is Written by the Victors

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