When did 20th C music really become such. Was it with the folk-preservation-modern-classical work of the 1890s and onwards amongst composers like Vaughan Williams et al?
Or was it with the first inklings of jazz in the music hall/vaudeville/entertainment/dance music of the 00s and 10s?
It does seem that the modernists, if CD liner notes and album covers are anything to go by, have won that particular contest with almost every second Naxos CD having something like "20th century piano music" or "20th century pastoral cello suite" in big letters across the top as a type of explanatory sub-title for those who know what they want to hear.
You don't see that on early jazz albums.
I may be rambling.
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