Re: OT: Musical languistics

michael poxon scripsit:

> For me, a
> lot of (though not all) modern classical music is like a lot of (though not
> all) modern art - just soulless gimmickry, with a great deal of the
> Emperor's new Clothes about it.
That's true of most of the so-called art of any age (Sturgeon's Law:
90% of everything is crud).  When looking at the past, though,
most of the crud has already been filtered out for us: we keep the good
stuff, the bad stuff goes to oblivion.  Who can name a single work of
anglophone dramatic art between the 1660s and the 1890s, excepting
_Uncle Tom's Cabin_, whose interest is primarily political/historical?

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