2 Sep
2010
2 Sep
'10
9:06 a.m.
On 2 September 2010 08:01, david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
But they weren't created for the masses. They
commissioned and paid for by
the wealthy rulers, for themselves. They were done because someone paid the
artist to do them. Therefore, they are commercial art.
Oh no, they were for the
masses. Most of Bach's product is church
music and those days you can't get more for masses than that.
Similarly there used to be plenty of concert halls where the musicians
played fast and loud, mostly to the people leering and cheering. Most
composers were not retainers by the nobility but would make money by
selling the note sheets (and that's one of the many reason why
Copyright came to be).
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