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This my discussion post question:

So many changes occurred in the arts in the 20th century. Some of these changes were gradual (evolutionary) whilst others were startlingly sudden (revolutionary). Do you believe the evolutionary or the revolutionary approach to the arts in general, and to music, is likely to have the most lasting long-term effect? Why?

And below is my response to said discussion. Please give me your feedback on my answer in a SIMPLIFIED response. Just your opinion to my answer. No need for a long drawn out response just your personal opinion to my answer, as if you and I were having a discussion.

There are plenty of evolutionary and revolutionary changes that happen throughout the world. In the music world particularly, the changes that have happened over time have fallen under both of these categories. To the arts in general, in my personal opinion, I believe the evolutionary changes that happen in art have the most lasting effects over revolutionary changes. Now, seeing all of the changes that have happened to music with every era, movement, and genre development, it's fascinating to see the pattern of change that occurs with each decade and century that goes by. When there is a gradual change that occurs, it often (not always) has very dramatic results on society at large. Ever since the development of things like sheet music and instruments, experts continue to develop little by little with every discovery. We didn't always have layered and abstract pieces of music that we see with the greats, such as Beethoven and Chopin. These developments were only able to be made over the course of time, learning how different instruments and voices sound together with all types of key, dynamic, and beat changes. Along with that, there has been so much that can be said for the art world at large. We wouldn't know how to communicate effective and, for lack of a better term, 'good' art. This is essentially why we have Section 1 of the textbook to know how to identify and describe music. When we understand how to interpret, adapt, and improve on the past, we have a very great foundation for how the world can move forward with music. Of course, now we have advanced technology that makes music development easier than ever before, but there's no way for us to know for certain how much more the art world can evolve. We could be an intermediate era that's recorded in history books 100 years from now and we would never realize it.