The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
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The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
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I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
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The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
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Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
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I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.
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