-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:56:41PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Paul Davis escribe: > > i don't think you're correct there. for a start, the modes we use in > > western classical, religious and popular were not often used 500 years > > ago. the influences that jazz has introduced into much western music > > would have been mostly unknown 500 years ago, because jazz itself didn't > > exist then. the notions of fugues and counterpoint were (mostly) > > developed 400 years ago in western europe - before that time having two > > melodic lines in opposite motion but also harmonizing would have > > probably sounded very odd. > > We certainly owe to Bach what we consider musical now. IIRC, some of Bach's music was considered too chromatic and dissonant at the time. - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGFUVoe8HF+6xeOIcRAmfmAJ9ak9TTT1gJQMgwkLCkIKqhz3JrtgCgkbEk 0qqKadfIvJ09wmElqmlSZhU= =3EuD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user