Is music written and played out? Have the best combinations of notes and chords already been done? Maybe this why current music seems derivative or uninspiring for the most part.
Yes, all the good music has been written. No more good music will ever be written again.
Noooooooooooo it can't be! You mean I'll have to listen to all that crappy music that's already been made. What will I do?
I feel your pain...all that Bach and Beethoven crap...
And Wagner, and that other dudette.
By "other dudette" do you mean Anton Bruckner?
If so, then yes, the music of Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, and Bruckner were all defined as "good" German music by the Nazi regime.
Luckily those composers all lived before the Nazi regime was even thought of by GröFaZ, thus they can be seen as great composers independently of what the Nazis classified and misused them as and for, but then again, one says Wagner, one has to always say Hitler or Nazi, but that was not Richard's work, it was Winifred's work, a Wagner by marriage, but hey, let's go to Bayreuth and enjoy the heat and second cycle now. The Ring is one hell of a piece of theatre.
Personally, I not very concerned about the music that the Nazis considered to be "good" music (although I find the concept of "good" music is itself rather absurd.)
But I did find it rather amusing that the first three "serious" composers named in the thread were all "good" German composers who were highly revered by the Nazis.
But then, the Nazis utilized music by non-German born composers. For example, Goebbel's office used Liszt's fanfare from Les Prelude to introduce their announcements of military victories.
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... Anyway, back to the music. I saw Backstreet Boys on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson some days ago. Were they not considered good? ...
... Good music will still be written; to me, the question is - will it be able to achieve sufficient exposure to obtain recognition as something worth listening to?
Well, sometimes it take a while for a "good" tune to catch on...
Pachelbel's "Canon in D" was heard by relatively few during the composer's lifetime and soon fell into obscurity. Only a recent times has it become a tune familiar to a significant percentage of the earth's population, more than 200 years after it was written.
Is music written and played out? Have the best combinations of notes and chords already been done? Maybe this why current music seems derivative or uninspiring for the most part.
I agree. Also, everything that can possibly be invented already has.
Maybe this why current music seems derivative or uninspiring for the most part.
I got this idea after listening to Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". It's good, but haven't I heard this before? Maybe updating old hits is the next trend.
Is music written and played out? Have the best combinations of notes and chords already been done? Maybe this why current music seems derivative or uninspiring for the most part.