Musical characteristics of the 20th century

1. Melody: Traditional music is based on fluency, natural fluctuation and regular progress. Music melody in the 20th century is often not smooth, jumping violently, sometimes not reading sentences, and sometimes avoiding the melody factors in traditional music, and replacing melody with other vocal methods.

2. Rhythm and beat: Rhythm is the skeleton of traditional music and is well organized; In modern music, the rhythm is free and changeable, some have polyrhythm, no rhythm, no beat, no bar line, some have the player's free arrangement of rhythm, and some have "only rhythm".

3. Harmony: Traditional music is based on harmony and triad; Modern music breaks this concept. Based on sound sense, there is no chord structure and function of traditional music. Eleven chords and thirteen chords are commonly used, and sound groups and plate sound groups are adopted. Even the concept of chord no longer exists.

4. Mode and tonality: Traditional music is centered on major and minor, while modern music is often atonal. Some create their own scales and musical order, while others do not move in the melody category, thus losing the significance of mode tonality.

5, orchestration: traditional concerts optimize the combination of each group of instruments, and the timbre emphasizes balance; Modern music, on the other hand, emphasizes the extreme range and noise commonly used by individual instruments, highlights percussion and seeks new timbre and vocal instruments.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Modern Music