Little Music Note

May 18th, 2009 by Reb

Throughout history, art has had many features in implicating different aspects of society. One of the important roles of art in society is its ability in transforming the audiences. This can be seen in many art disciplines, such as dance, music, visual art etc.

When traditional ballet’s role started to shift in Western culture, much is changed in its rigid formality. The representation of female’s image and status shifted from vulnerable, dependent and emotional to independent and self-constructive shown in modern dances. This change has brought to society the need to reform and reshape the ideas of female images in society. Similarly, music has the same application towards its audiences.

When Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring first premiered in 1913, it received a huge amount of controversial feedbacks. The traditional ballet form was radically changed by this piece, where dancers were no longer following the rigid form of ballet. Instead, they danced by stumping their feet, throwing arms up and down and so on. The graceful gestures of traditional ballet is no longer presented by this early piece of 20th century art work. On top of that, the audiences at that time were not used to hearing music in this form, and the timbre it uses is completely new for the listeners of that era. As time passed, people started to accept this kind of music, and the notion of noise become more and more popular as musicians start to be interested in this movement of new music. Other disciplines and artists also has a role in transforming the audiences, such as the painting of Jackson Pollock, and works by Marcel Duchamp, all plays a part in changing the inherence of traditional art.

Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. (1919) Which phonetically means: 
“elle a chaud au cul” or “She’s got a hot ass.”

This is one of the famous works of Marcel Duchamp. Imagine what it is like if we are still living in the Dada movement. What do you think of the radical change of art throughout history?

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