In the early 20th century there was an intensive overlapping of elements of the newly-forming style of popular music called jazz with the individual compositional styles of American and European composers of musical modernism. We can observe the diffusion, in all components of the musical structure, in many works by more or less well-known composers. While some of them were programmatically devoted to a synthesis of jazz and musical modernism in the whole of their output, for others this happened only exceptionally. The study contains analyses and comparison of selected works from the early 20th century, which show features of genre diffusion (Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Erwin Schulhoff, Darius Milhaud, Bohuslav Martinů, George Gershwin).
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