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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Why does most "avantgarde contemporary music".. posted by Beejai on May 8, 2008 at 19:50:17:
both of which could be wrong.
A) We don't hear it so much, so we don't understand it so well.
An analogy: Joe Ear grew up listening to rock and roll. He hears some bebop and to him it sounds like noise. As he listens to more and more, it begins to sound more familiar. Eventually he understands it and he digs it.
Given the fact that most classical radio stations avoid late 20th century music like the plague, Joe Average doesn't hear it so often. When buying classical he goes for the stuff he knows. He is not exposed to the new stuff and thus never gains an appreciation of it.
B) The theory behind the new stuff is comparable to quantum physics.
Every composer, ever, worth his salts has endeavored to do something original and novel. After 300 odd years of this it becomes quite difficult to do something that hasn't been done before. So, in order to be original, the composer goes deep into theory. Experimentation with meters, keys, rhythms, tones, etc. becomes commonplace. The common listener, with no background in theory, is left behind.
Maybe yes, maybe no?
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