A State Of Crisis, By Nicholas Cook

In the chapter of “A State of Crisis”, the writer Nicholas Cook talk about the musical culture of early 20th century had been moved on but Nicholas mention classical music is in a crisis, it is not the problem of the music itself. It is about the way of people thinking about music. For Nicholas statement it doesn’t mean that classical music is disappearing but it more likely to be independent from any other meaning and the society. Let’s take a look at today’s world. The sound reproduction technology has given a massive boost to this kind of thinking. Almost any kind of music with different time and place can be found in any CD store in the city. Also, you can just sit at home and use the Internet to acquire the music you want easily.
It still difficult to classified high or low art today because it have too much argument on different people who have different point of view. Just like the table in class show about what kind of element make people think about this is high or low art but even thought it use, it still difficult to judge. For example, in high art it usually liked by the elites on the other hand low art is liked by and targeted the mass public. Obviously, what people normally think is that the classical music would be the high art one and the low art one is the pop music. The writer Nicholas does not agree this kind of thinking. No doubt that Bach, Beethoven and Brahms’s music is the great music and it is the high art. The way of people thinking is that classical music is still the high class one that is one of the element make classical music is in crisis. In this point of view, low art is still very important and have value such as folk song, Antonin Dvorak, Ralph Vaughan Williams. People pass this kind of music generation by generation and let people still remember the characteristic of the countryside and its inhabitants. I believed that if it still called this kind of music is still low art, is not fair enough. But what the people still think this kind of music is low art because they are not come from the composer’s view and feeling. This kind of music only can present the voice of the people from the countryside and not
Also, in the Western culture still exist this kind of thinking about music. This also is part of the things that make us thinking about the classical music. In this chapter also mention about what it will lead us think music is an object. “Something in time but not of time”, what it mean is music actually is an art of time. Music is not cause by time but it still in time. Even thought is that many people said that Western Classical music is now in a crisis. We can look for the statistic about the number of classical music make now a day. It is less and less and less by compare with the pop music. In the early 20th century, new music (like pop music) only few of people accept but the avant-garde movement raise make to people began to accept new form of art and this against the traditional one. Young people are encouraged to create now form of art and cause people have another thinking of