[atlantaprog] Re: What composers were up to

From: "Chip Epsten" <cepsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >While many off the dead Europeans were brilliant, most of them were
> operating within a prescribed set of rules and conventions. Their
> brilliance was they way they were able to take these very conservative
> constraints and create works of lasting beauty and integrity, but
> seldom would one of them try and break out of those rules and
> conventions.
>
> Not true, I think. The best of them were constantly pushing the boundaries
> of their day. That's how we got from the Renaissance to Baroque to
Classical
> to Romantic, Impressionism, the 20th century genres, and beyond.
>
> Chip

There's a long time between those genre shifts though, compared to changes
in pop music or jazz in the last 75 years.  I wonder what would have
happened if some classical composer could have pushed into jazz voicings
back in 1800-- it'd be a different world.

Brian
LO

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