The Commercialisation of Music

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The paper discusses the practical and technological developments, the economic development, the transformation in the nature of individual composers and the development of public music halls and concert venues that all influenced the growing commercialisation of music. The paper highlights the beginning of music's role as a social and political tool on the mass stage.

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"The history of music is a varied one. Moreover, it has undergone numerous radical transformations in the course of its long life. The assessment of this development requires the examination of a multitude of factors and issues. Above all, the progression of music through the ages has not occurred in isolation from other trends and developments. Music has impacted upon external forces in the same way as external influences and innovations have affected music. Thus, what at first may appear to be a singular study is actually not."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Chanan, Michael. Musica Practica: The social practice of Western music from Gregorian chant to postmodernism, London: Verso, 1994.
• Grammond, Peter. An illustrated guide to composers of classical music, London: Salamander, 1980.
• Kind, Alec. Hyatt. Four hundred years of music printing, London: British Library, 1979.
• Supicic, Ivo. Music in Society: A guide to the sociology of music, New York: Pendgraon, 1987.
• Todd, Allan. Revolutions: 1789-1917, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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