THE BEGINNING OF MODERNISM IN THE MUSIC OF SERBIAN COMPOSERS
THE BEGINNING OF MODERNISM IN THE MUSIC OF SERBIAN COMPOSERS

Summary/Abstract: Significantly penetrating the years between the two world wars, this situation testifies to the long process of uneven development of Serbian music. Despite the founding of the Belgrade Opera (1920), the gradual growth of performing qualities, the expansion of the repertoire, the premiere of the first Serbian musical and dramatic achievements of modern expression, the influence of popular music remains an almost exclusive privilege of traditional national forms of music. In order to establish internal continuity, they modernized and expanded the existing tradition with new genres, appreciating that sudden new leaps in language can be accepted primarily in those genres that have already gained some continuity in national music.

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