Thoughts of a Flying Sheep

I remember wondering why people can't write classical music anymore. I mean, they can't. If you studied classical composition, memorized truckloads of scores, and had talent coming out of your ears, you still wouldn't be able to write classical music.

If you tried, the best you could come up with would be post-modern neo-classical music.

I think it's interesting that the type of music that you write is partially determined by the time in which you live. If you wrote music that sounded like a lot of late romantic music, but you were born a few hundred years too early, it will be considered Baroque music, even if it didn't sound like any other Baroque piece. Of course, in that scenario, there probably wouldn't be any musicians around who would play your piece (at least not the way you envisioned it).

posted by FlyingSheep @ 9:34 AM