The middle class impacted the development in music in many different ways. You did a good job summarizing some of the ways that the middle class changed the music industry such as influences to the style of music, instruments, and musicians. Although, in my opinion, the most significant impact that the middle class had on the evolution of music was the alterations of the concerts. Before the middle class, concerts were only for the noble class and aristocrats. When the middle class began to earn more money and used some of it to pay for entertainment in the form of music and concerts, it allowed the audiences of concerts to become more diverse. It encouraged everyone who could afford it to have the ability to enjoy music, which in return, inspired
