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This is called folk now because this was a lot centuries ago and noone knows the authors of the songs, I would't say that there is much difference in the folk song where the guy sings how he likes the girl and today's pop song with the same lyrics, if it was XV century today, that folk music would also be called pop, pop comes from "popular" (everybody listens to it), not "trash" or "unaesthetical
There is a saying that "if a grandma had a couple of balls, she would be a grandpa". One could argue that, say, the dogs are nothing but exactly the same as humans, much more similarities than differences, same type of body parts, digestive system, brains, even like to howl, which is enjoyable and popular among dogs, so the dogs are singing like a pop music, very much the same. If we were dogs and could speak we could actually call each other humans. So, please, no, folk is folk, pop is pop, they are not the same, and no, we are not it the XV century today. You could call the similarities, because it is all, you know, music, uses notes, scales, etc. The differences are huge, one of the most significant is the economics, so no, pop is a new kind of modern music reality, it is professional, more like a full time job for many, highly commercialized, industrialized - quite far from XV century folk songs. And it is all very much influential for the recent classical piano music situation.
There are more schools today and a lot of people attend musical schools or learn theory via internet, it doesn’t cost a lot so you don’t have to be in a noble family for that and can afford an instrument at least electrical. I would better ask how do you know that there were more people who liked classical
Hard to tell without the actual scientific statistic data, can't be sure. In the USSR the nearly free music education was very wide spread, you could be right here, but it peaked at late XX and significantly declined in XXI, I've heard that in China and Japan the early music education is mandatory, although don't have the exact knowledge, don't know about how it is in USA and Europe. Speaking of pre XX, the society was very much divided, so if you were in the privileged class you could have the impression that most of people around play some instrument, was going to concerts, know the music, operas, symphonies, etc., but if you were in the lower class, which was the vast majority, then nearly nobody around play the instruments or could read the music.
We can only have opinions about how people differ from the people before bacause we didn't live at that time, so you can agree and disagree, but what I know definetely is that people think stereotipically and when we read the book or watch the film where a lot of people talk politely, wear whiskers and play the classical everywhere we unconsiously start to think that it was normal back then
After all I have my personal experience, I can gather information from my family, older generations, friends, friend's friends, their kids, so on. The younger generation don't give a flying fork about classical music, really. The moonlight and fur elise is your best bet, if you are lucky enough. Same with the current 30-40 years old (more or less my generation), albeit they are not professionally involved. Only among people who are 70+ there is a chance to meet someone who could name some other pianists except Matsuev (for Russia). From what I'm able to observe the classical music culture evolved and peaked in XIX century with the names of Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Rubinstein (as performers) starting to very so slightly fade in XX and quite significantly in XXI. Overall it is not trivial but still possible to acquire the accurate knowledge about the past, the tools are present, even the music by itself carry the information about the times and society, if one is sensitive enough.
saying that by accident all living today people were born less smart or prepossessed for culture is ridiculous
Never said this.
Yes, I deleted that quote
The hard fact is that everything we see around will eventually come to it's end like the humanity, the planet, and hence the culture. I highly doubt the latter is starting right now but still it is a small chance that it is :-)
Last edited by AKM (22-11-2020 07:51)
