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Originally Posted by Yagan Kiely
Originaly, changing trends in music was like evolution, it happend naturally and over time. In the modern era, people are trying to be different, just to be different. Mozart for example, was different - but he was only different in so much as he thought it wouldimprove music. A lot of music these days, will be laughed at by the majority of the people in the western world.
As far as music trends, today (in pop) I hear a lot of bands going back to the style of the 60s. I don't think that Classical music is dead, I just think we have skipped far too much due to the need to be strikingly different. There are a lot of possible styles in between Wagner and Stravinsky that have not been explored.
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Interesting comments,
I would have thought that the era between Wagner and Stravinsky was quite well covered by a raft of composers with different styles and national flavours, (Debussy, Faure, Sibelius, Nielsen, Elgar, Vaughn Williams, Ives, Mahler and Rachmaninov to name but a few).
My observations are that the outset of pop music is a result of tonal breakdown in art music and most people want a good tune to hear and sing to and rarely get it in twentieth century art music..It's just far too inaccessible..