At 4:53 PM -0500 1/14/07, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 14 Jan 2007 at 13:34, John Howell wrote:Renaissance SACRED music could be based on "popular songs" ("L'homme armé comes immediately to mind, of course), but once again please define "popular songs" rather than leaving the term hanging there.There's also a bias to composed, notated music in the historical record -- much "popular music" was non-notated, and since they had no recordings, it's completely lost.
Like 99.99% of jazz . Awfully good point. It's something I have to fight in my own thinking. When did they stop composing Gregorian chant? They didn't! But once you get into studying polyphony it's difficult to keep that in mind. And what did Corelli's playing of his own adagios really sound like, or Bach's, Mozart's, or Beethoven's improvisations? We think we know, because we know their notated music, but do we really?
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