Dré de Man wrote:
> ...they had a very high quality standard and followed many rules >about how to make a work of art, which helped them enormously to >write good music. And much of that music got so good that people >loved it many hundred years later, and like other things that stay >'forever', we call that classical. The period in history when those >rules were quite strong, we call classicism...
Mmm. I wonder whether composers such as Mozart were all that interested in following rules. In any case I think that following "many rules about how to make a work of art" would lead to the production of mediocre work, at best.
John Link
http://www.mp3.com/JohnLinkFeldenkrais http://www.mp3.com/JohnLinkVocalQuintet
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