Ah, I should clarify again—I’m speaking of “genre” as “marketing term used by people as if it carves art at the joints”—what you see on the cards if you walk into a record shop. All the jargon in this space is overloaded. See clarification above re: term “culturally irrelevant”.
(And off-topic: got links to your music please? I’m interested now. dgerard at gmail dot com.)
This is as it should be ;-) However, Beethoven did not labour unheard in academia.
And it’s all music. “Classical” isn’t one genre, not even a bit.
Anyway, poetry tops the recorded sound charts these days. It’s very popular. Children popularly aspire to be poets.
It sure isn’t. “Genres” are things like the symphony, the string quartet, and the piano sonata. “Classical” is a period in history.
Ah, I should clarify again—I’m speaking of “genre” as “marketing term used by people as if it carves art at the joints”—what you see on the cards if you walk into a record shop. All the jargon in this space is overloaded. See clarification above re: term “culturally irrelevant”.
(And off-topic: got links to your music please? I’m interested now. dgerard at gmail dot com.)