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Hmm…I don't know if it's intentional, but that's the second comment that kinda deals with 20th Century music reductively, as if its objectives preclude an easily recognizable form of engagement with listeners. I tend to think a bit differently, that breaking with the constraints of the distant past and introducing new sonorities was a way of expanding the palette for beauty, which has much to do with taking into consideration that many, many beautiful things happened in music post-classicism. And it's also proof of classical music's continued vitality; it can still have much to say to say to us if we care to listen. Just a thought…
Originally Posted by gregorio /img/forum/go_quote.gif C20th music was more influenced by experimentation of sound and the breaking of the concept that music had to be beautiful to be good. |
Hmm…I don't know if it's intentional, but that's the second comment that kinda deals with 20th Century music reductively, as if its objectives preclude an easily recognizable form of engagement with listeners. I tend to think a bit differently, that breaking with the constraints of the distant past and introducing new sonorities was a way of expanding the palette for beauty, which has much to do with taking into consideration that many, many beautiful things happened in music post-classicism. And it's also proof of classical music's continued vitality; it can still have much to say to say to us if we care to listen. Just a thought…