On 04/02/2014 01:20 AM, Simon Wise wrote:
Rock/Pop music is performance art, the "Rockstar" is a role, that is
played by someone, who happens to sing/play at the same time. The result
is not music in the sense of Bach or Mahler but still relevant art if
done right.
But Bach and Mahler and many (if not most) of what we now consider
"classical
and/or/great" musicians wrote for the same reason: to write something
that
people would pay money for. In Bach's day, the only people who had the
money
were far fewer than today's horde of music listeners. In that sense, the
composer was performance art; Mozart, for example.
any opera especially, big stagey spectaculars to pull in the box office.
That a just continued a very very old tradition, but its only one part
of music.
Who knows, maybe 300-400 years from know, today's rock operas will be
high opera! Complete with the fat lady singing and scholarly
musicologists writing dissertations on the use of pinball machines as
musical instruments...
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