Klarinet Archive - Posting 000522.txt from 2001/11

From: A4ACHESON@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] A few facts about Chromatic Modal Harmony
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:19:09 -0500

In a message dated 14/11/01 11:09:49 pm, assembly1@-----.com writes:

<< we're hearing pretty much all the music written in the last 50 years
and most of the last hundred. Time has been kind and we are not presented
with most of the really boring stuff from earlier periods >>

This theory, which I accept, also applies to pop music, to which I no longer
listen on the principle "Why not wait and let time eliminate 'the really
boring' stuff?"
I see no reason why the same principle should not be applied to "classical"
music.
You can save a lot of time that way.
Arthur Acheson

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