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duga · 03-09-2011, 04:17 PM

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Wow, I feel like I just got an education with the last few posts. Great stuff, guys.

I find the historical perspective of music to be fascinating. Anything we consider classical music came straight from the richest members of society. What is really interesting to me is that this doesn't mean the poor weren't creating music. I am positive they were making lots of music as it is a universal human interest. They just had no way of documenting it. Only with the invention of recording did those creations earn a place of permanence. And with most of the world still being of the poorer variety, we get a lot more of it. Almost to the point where music is almost now exclusively associated with the every day person and not the elite.

dankrsta, what do you study?

03-09-2011, 04:17 PM	#275 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	^ Wow, I feel like I just got an education with the last few posts. Great stuff, guys. I find the historical perspective of music to be fascinating. Anything we consider classical music came straight from the richest members of society. What is really interesting to me is that this doesn't mean the poor weren't creating music. I am positive they were making lots of music as it is a universal human interest. They just had no way of documenting it. Only with the invention of recording did those creations earn a place of permanence. And with most of the world still being of the poorer variety, we get a lot more of it. Almost to the point where music is almost now exclusively associated with the every day person and not the elite. dankrsta, what do you study? __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...