The Role Of Anti-Traditionalism In Music

Personally, I always believed anti-traditionalism in music began with genres like rock and pop music. So learning that composers in the 1900 were considered modernists was interesting. I was also surprised with the "Holy trinity" of music; I never really thought about rhythm being a modern concept. Of course, Industrialization in the 19th and 20th century obviously played a key role in changing the all of the arts. Starting with a variety of modernism, anti-traditionalism. Anti-traditionalism is a movement that first started in 1890 with varying experimentation by artists, composers, writers and poets. The different artists of the period were referred to as "avant-garde". However not every composer was apart of the avant-garde