Thread: Country

Gee, how we tend to stray off topic ...

For the record ... Christi has not broken any forum rules yet - could be a very young person who is getting their very first introduction to music of any form ... We all had to start out learning somewhere ourselves.

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could be a very young person who is getting their very first introduction to music of any form

In which case they need to be banned. Is not this hosted in the US? Is not the law 13y or older?

Either way, he/she has had 95 posts and yet to learn what classical music actually sounds like.

Gee, how we tend to stray off topic ...

There was a topic? The thread was answered in the first few posts: "no".

So, the suggestion is that we just automatically ban any young person who wants to learn about music?
This is not what we are about ... Today's kids are going to be the one replacing us older musicians when we start playing the harp in whatever afterlife place we wind up in.

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There are many public forums where young people under the age of 13 are allowed to participate ... I am an editing supervisor in one such group that originates in the US.

Any yes, there is a topic ... "country" ... and there has been an ensuing discussion other than the couple of "no's". We now return to that topic

This forum originates from Denmark ... the physical servers are located in that country ... The site owner is a resident of Denmark. Danish law applies to this forum, not US laws or regulations. However, this forum is fully compliant with COPPA which protects child members' privacy.

Fair enough then.

Originally Posted by jhar26

At least she hasn't asked yet if Johnny Cash wrote any string quartets.

We know he must have liked them, though. Many string quartets have been written for Cash.

Ba-Boom. Is it the way I tell 'em?

Damn! you beat me to that one!
I was posting -

Johnny Cash! Did he write some string quartets or what???

I will answer the thread.
Unfortunately Classical music covers such vast array of styles that it cannot be compared in it's etirety with counrty which is of a much more restricted stylistic gammut.
One could compare the question to the problem of the three blind men and the elephant. One said that the elephant was like a brush, having held only its tail, another said it was like a tree having felt only its leg and the other claimed that the elephant was like a snake having examined only its trunk.

Country music has much in common with conventional classical music from the period from 1650 through 2010. That seems like a lot of music but the actual similarities vary from close to almost indiscernable. The main similarities are of course that country music is triadic, tonal and bassed on rhythmic groupings of four beats in four bar chunks or three beats in four bar chunks.
A choice of diatonic harmony with a almost exclusive reliance on tonic/dominant harmonic progressions with perfect cadences being the preffered ending make drawing harmonic parallels with periods in classical music when such stylistic traits were prevailant unavoidable. I am talking about the Rococco and Gallant styles of the early 18th century where a reaction against Baroque harmonic complexity lead to a polarization of tonic /dominant sequences. So Johnny Cash is a bit like CPE Bach in that his harmonic language is limited by the current style.

Off for a coffee! back soon with chromatic harmony, stringed instruments, structural similarities....
or do I need to? Is Christi going to read and understand this?
I felt duped after writing about Vivaldi and explaining Symphonies etc. in other threads she started....
Go figure