Time to post some pop music from a few centuries back! xD
One of my personal favourites.
One of my personal favourites.
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Pultost wrote:
Time to post some pop music from a few centuries back! xD
One of my personal favourites.
Sean2001 wrote:
I do like The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba. It works quite well on the organ too.Pultost wrote:
Time to post some pop music from a few centuries back! xD
One of my personal favourites.
I am not sure I would describe it as just older pop music, though. Handel was the Andrew Lloyd-Weber of his day - an Impressario who wrote operas and oratorios, music for the King - whatever people would pay to hear.
Pultost wrote:
You're probably right, to be honest, I don't even know if there even was such thing as "pop music" back then. xD
Sean2001 wrote:
I think classical music has historically been music for those with money and the reputation continues to this day, though these days it is quite accessible to anyone so it is more about taste then expense. But the music was written by composers who had to be paid, to be played by musicians who had to be paid, and was written down and thus needed someone with a formal musical education. The major sponsors were the church and the nobility. Doing as Handel did, and selling to a much wider audience came later but even so it would have been those who had a reasonable amount of money would have paid to go to hear it.Pultost wrote:
You're probably right, to be honest, I don't even know if there even was such thing as "pop music" back then. xD
I am not sure if we know much about what ordinary people in many places would have listened to but I am sure there would have been small numbers of musicians in various communities who could play and folk tunes would have been passed down by ear. Even some classical composers have raided folk tunes and many of the names given to the movements of classical music are actually the names of dances so dancing was probably tied up with music in ordinary society as well as in high society just as it is today.