I'm afraid I have to agree. One would never dare fault Stravinsky or
Crumb for weak voice leading or abandoning functional harmony. Their
music just isn't about those things. Neither, by and large, is rock.
On Mar 31, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Owain Sutton wrote:
These aren't observations of "purely musical/structural elements", but
an imposition of one particular value system on music to which it is
irrelevant.
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Because of the lack of demand for structural sophistication in music
that sold well because of it's pertinence to adolescent
sensibilities, guitar grips that happened to contain the note the
"composer" was singing substituted for harmonic grammar based on the
principles of functional harmony. I could go on. Examples abound,
and they refer to observable aspects of purely musical/structural
elements, not superficial questions of whether or not one generation
accepts the rebellion of the next.
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