29-09-2014, 17:41
SteveO Wrote:That's the problem when one is compiling a best or great list! Music is subjective, to each his own. It depends entirely on what you have been exposed to! I personally don't go by these lists...I use them as a guideline..I agree 300%!
Also, what exactly is "Classical?" here is text by Cyril Scott (I can't put the link to his free book "The Philosophy of Modernism"):
The truth is, classicalism is based, at any rate in music, upon a gigantic misconception the misconception that any great genius was ever classical in his day. No composer of the first rank has ever adhered to traditions ; he has always overstepped them, and hence every masterpiece is the result of romanticism. Indeed, what pedants call classicalism is nothing but that transformation apparently brought about when the dust of years settles on what was once a romantic masterpiece. In fine, it is in one sense a myth and a superstition.I compose and say it is classical. Technically there is Baroque=1685-1750 Classical=1750-1820 Romantic=1820-1900 or so.. But I think some of John Williams' music is classical. I can't put a link to my songs that I think are classical but the point is what is classical really?
Like you said though, just use things as guidelines. And a given musician may have great songs and lousy ones too!
-Teo