14-09-2011, 13:45
this would be a subject rather for an article than for a forum thread ...
there would be so much to say ...
I' ll try to make just a few points, almost at random :
#music coming to us from the past (Bach,Beethoven ...) has somehow already been screened and only the most outstanding has passed the test of time,
#contemporary music shows such a variety of genres and uses so many more instruments (acoustic, electronic, computer software ... ) so the quantity of music to digest dramatically increases,
#a huge quantity of musical products are not pure music anymore ... think of videos ...
#perhaps a better approach would be not to ask ourselves if the overall offer of music is of a higher quality today as opposed to Bach's time, but rather if we can make a handful of names ( really not more than three or four ) of composers that we beleive to be outstanding at the same level of Bach,Beethoven or Wagner in their time or performers at the same level or Yahudy Menuhim or David Oistrach
#enough for today !!!
there would be so much to say ...
I' ll try to make just a few points, almost at random :
#music coming to us from the past (Bach,Beethoven ...) has somehow already been screened and only the most outstanding has passed the test of time,
#contemporary music shows such a variety of genres and uses so many more instruments (acoustic, electronic, computer software ... ) so the quantity of music to digest dramatically increases,
#a huge quantity of musical products are not pure music anymore ... think of videos ...
#perhaps a better approach would be not to ask ourselves if the overall offer of music is of a higher quality today as opposed to Bach's time, but rather if we can make a handful of names ( really not more than three or four ) of composers that we beleive to be outstanding at the same level of Bach,Beethoven or Wagner in their time or performers at the same level or Yahudy Menuhim or David Oistrach
#enough for today !!!
