Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-08-30 22:39:15 +0200: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:06:33PM +0530, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > 1. The great western classical tradition which started around Bach (or a few > > hundred years earlier depending on how you look at/hear it) suddenly died > > around 1900. > > Classical music degenerated into varieties of insanities like serialism etc > > and pop/rock etc emerged over the next 50 years out of what was earlier > > simple folk music. > > That's quite an extreme way to put it I'd say. The 'great western classical > tradition' is by no means a continuum, it is divided in periods that each > had their own foundations and idioms. There are composers bridging the gaps > of course, but that doesn't much change the basic historic structure. > > But yes, the early 20th century was surely a turning point in Western science > and culture - mathematics and physics went through a crisis and came out > stronger than ever, and in the arts - not only music - everything was turned > over and the outcome of this is still unsure. Much of this was questioned > in the final quarter of the 20th century (the postmodern movement), without > IMHO offering anything in exchange. What we have today is some form of > 'eclectism' that has its place in contemporary society but in itself has > little power to survive. If everything already was, nothing is new, how can anything not be eclectic? I heard however that Goethe said basically the same thing, everything that can be already is. I guess 'new' just gets 'smaller' all the time. And everything new just derives from what was there before. I think that never changed, it's just a matter of perception, and I guess this development went faster than the general human perception developed. -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
