Someone mentioned in a thread that when most of the great classical music was composed the only way to hear it was to go see an orchestra.
This got me thinking as to how would we view music if we only ever heard a peice say once in our lifetime's, how would anyone decide what was popular ?
Does this mean that the reason certain peices like say Beethoven's 5th were deliberately written as that times pop music, was it made to be approachable and therefore commercial to fill concert halls ?
Alan
Someone mentioned in a thread that when most of the great classical music was composed the only way to hear it was to go see an orchestra.
This got me thinking as to how would we view music if we only ever heard a peice say once in our lifetime's, how would anyone decide what was popular ?
Does this mean that the reason certain peices like say Beethoven's 5th were deliberately written as that times pop music, was it made to be approachable and therefore commercial to fill concert halls ?
Alan