The speaker tends to believe that music that annihilates individuality has ousted, today, music that develops individuality, because of the following concurrences: The 19th century developments, related to the propagation of the great composers’ works, are also interpreted by historians as the beginnings of the separation between light and serious music. Their boundaries became most obvious in the 20th century, when the idiom of serious music was much differentiated from the 19th century
idiom, which remained the idiom of 20th century’s light music, the music of the cinema and television. In addition, it was that idiom, characterized by liturgical harmony, that spread in the 20th century, in the process of the westernization of indigenous musical traditions, all over the world.
