[lbo-talk] The Death of Classical Music (da capo, con brio)

Michael J. Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Apr 4 05:36:55 PDT 2007


On Tuesday 03 April 2007 10:39 pm, Dennis Claxton wrote:


> Oh come on. The whole idea of punk rock is to grab a guitar and not
> get too complicated. People might become truly accomplished on their
> instruments only after they've already made a few great
> records. Classical is nothing like that.

Bach -- at least the complicated Bach -- is more complicated than anything, but there are plenty of composers we call "classical" whose stuff is structurally very simple. Take Vivaldi (please!).

-- --Michael J. Smith --mjs at smithbowen.net

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