[LAU] Re: Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty -- musicisjustone path

[Chuckk Hubbard]

On 4/5/07, Chuck Martin <dsdhpnw02 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:56:41PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> >
> > We certainly owe to Bach what we consider musical now.
>
> Not really.  As much as I admire Bach's work (he's definitely one of my
> favorite classical composers), even the wikipedia article on Bach states
> that "he introduced no new forms" of music.  Everything he did had been
> done before by others.
>
> Ever hear of William Byrd?  Byrd was an English composer that lived and
> died before Bach was born, and yet when I first heard his music, I was
> amazed at the similarities between their music.

He certainly didn't invent fugues, counterpoint, or modulations.  I'm
not such a big fan, but I believe his contribution was more about
being very, very good at something than about inventing something.

-Chuckk

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