Dagnabit, there goes any chance for Bingen, Busnois, Browne, Binchois, Buxtehude, Billings, Busoni, or Berlioz!... the music of Byrd, Bach, Beethoven, Bruckner, or Brahms (just to stick with B’s) is infinitely more beautiful, skillful, and rewarding, not to mention perfective of the spiritual soul ...
I would have hoped everyone realizes music began with Leonin and ended with Ligeti.“from Perotin to Pärt”
One can detect the traces of some kind of agenda here.....periods of cultural stagnation...produce two kinds of music:ugly nonsense and the rebellion of searching souls. Think of twentieth century pop music versus the always earnest and often sublime music of such composers as Pärt, Górecki, Tavener, Vasks, Rautavaara.
These important qualifications keep him from dismissing as fools those who spend more work hours polishing the Mass of Creation than the Art of the Fugue....in our times of leisure and recreation we would be foolish not to prefer, as a general rule, music that is more beautiful, skillful, and rewarding, within the confines of its period and purpose.
the notion of what causes a work of music to be described as such [cheap, shallow, frivolous, or ugly] is completely a matter of opinion.
I may just imitate that on my blog.Please contribute $5 per month.
I live in the midst of 'authentic folk music' and most of it (not all) is terrible, the music and the performance.
, sorry, I have not yet received your $5 a month, so I can't really take your comment seriously. But, from high authority, I'll share this anyway:you're just repeating the same fundamental omission of Dr. Kwasniewski
At the same time, Prof. K. argues that those cultures possessed of the truth, specifically Judaeo-Christian ones, are those which can best represent that truth through art. TA would at least partially agree; it was he who postulated that sin darkens the mind. That's not to say that non-J-C cultures are 'sinful,' but if they do not possess the truth, they have an obstacle to overcome on their way to beauty.
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