%On 14 Jan 2007 at 6:34, dhbailey wrote: > The fact that there are a number of town bands in America which date > back into the mid 1800s indicates a fairly large body of literature, a > fairly large amount of which is still available. That bands in > general don't program it as much as music by contemporary composers > doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
But it's not, strictly speaking, "classical" music. It was music written for bands for popular use, to provide repertory for the bands which were in many cases, the primary musical ensemble of many communities. They were written for *use*, not for Art with a capital A. This, of course, makes them ineligible for inclusion in the classical music canon, since they weren't written for posterity, and weren't written before 1800 (when composers only very occasionally wrote for posterity, e.g., Bach's B Minor Mass). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
