the human voice which modern classical usually shuns
What on Earth are you talking about? Seriously, what data is generating this impression in your mind?
rap has access to...more (electronica?)
Same question. Where did you get the impression that electronic media aren’t …central to the recent history of art music?
The fundamental difference between art music and popular music (including rap) is nothing so superficial as instrumentation. It’s complexity of musical structure. Art music is structurally more complex than popular music; just as “art”/”research” X is structurally more complex than “popular” X, for all X.
(By the way, that’s different from what makes something art music vs. popular music. That has to do with memetic lineage. An individual work of art music could happen to be less complex than an individual work of popular music. But the differing lineages differ statistically as described here.)
Seriously, what data is generating this impression in your mind?
Sunday Baroque on NPR.
Is… is this not a good source of modern preferences in classical music?
Also, I feel that we are arguing in difference ways about complexity. I’m thinking in terms of total possibilities (eg. there are only so many 5 minute pieces expressible with 88 keys or whatever), but you seem to have some sort of entropy measure in mind.
Is… is this not a good source of modern preferences in classical music?
I completely misunderstood you. I thought you were talking about actual modern music, not modern preferences in Baroque music. (You did say “modern classical”.)
For the record, there is an abundance of vocal music from the Baroque period; I don’t know how much of it is played on NPR.
Also, I feel that we are arguing in difference ways about complexity. I’m thinking in terms of total possibilities (eg. there are only so many 5 minute pieces expressible with 88 keys or whatever), but you seem to have some sort of entropy measure in mind.
Yes on the latter point. As for the former, I don’t understand what you mean. Are you saying something like “there are fewer possible art compositions than rap songs, because art music is limited to 5-minute piano pieces”? That would be absurd, but I can’t come up with another meaning.
As for the former, I don’t understand what you mean. Are you saying something like “there are fewer possible art compositions than rap songs, because art music is limited to 5-minute piano pieces”? That would be absurd, but I can’t come up with another meaning.
What is absurd about it? It seems pretty apparent to me that rap can generate nearly-arbitrary sounds within the space of humanly-perceivable sounds, while Baroque/classical/classical-style music is limited to the smaller set of what pianos & flutes & etc. can generate.
What on Earth are you talking about? Seriously, what data is generating this impression in your mind?
Same question. Where did you get the impression that electronic media aren’t …central to the recent history of art music?
The fundamental difference between art music and popular music (including rap) is nothing so superficial as instrumentation. It’s complexity of musical structure. Art music is structurally more complex than popular music; just as “art”/”research” X is structurally more complex than “popular” X, for all X.
(By the way, that’s different from what makes something art music vs. popular music. That has to do with memetic lineage. An individual work of art music could happen to be less complex than an individual work of popular music. But the differing lineages differ statistically as described here.)
Sunday Baroque on NPR.
Is… is this not a good source of modern preferences in classical music?
Also, I feel that we are arguing in difference ways about complexity. I’m thinking in terms of total possibilities (eg. there are only so many 5 minute pieces expressible with 88 keys or whatever), but you seem to have some sort of entropy measure in mind.
I completely misunderstood you. I thought you were talking about actual modern music, not modern preferences in Baroque music. (You did say “modern classical”.)
For the record, there is an abundance of vocal music from the Baroque period; I don’t know how much of it is played on NPR.
Yes on the latter point. As for the former, I don’t understand what you mean. Are you saying something like “there are fewer possible art compositions than rap songs, because art music is limited to 5-minute piano pieces”? That would be absurd, but I can’t come up with another meaning.
What is absurd about it? It seems pretty apparent to me that rap can generate nearly-arbitrary sounds within the space of humanly-perceivable sounds, while Baroque/classical/classical-style music is limited to the smaller set of what pianos & flutes & etc. can generate.
You are severely underinformed.