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Will we ever run out of music to compose?

Will we ever run out of music to compose?

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StageManager2
#0Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 3:12am

I've often wondered about this, considering that there are only so many notes and chords and such. Whenever I hear that a musical has flopped, I always think (no lie), "Pity! What a waste of a score!"


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allofmylife
#1re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 3:14am

Only if you are ANdrew Lloyd Webber


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ZONEACE
#2re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 3:45am

when monkey's write hamlet


when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

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Dre2387
#3re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 3:47am

haha.

no, I don't think we will ever run out of music. one, because there are so many great ideas out there that some new composers will pick up. and two, later on, musical taste will differ a bit and a new style of Broadway will come out and be a great hit. one example is Rent.

the other is DRS. Yazbek took ideas from many different genres and put a whole musical together. Funk, romantic ballad, swing, jazz waltz, 2-step, samba, Viennese waltz, Latin song (not in latin, but a latin feel), rock ballad. I mean, that is incredible!

musicals will never die.


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DG
#4re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 4:00am

There are those who have said we did when Mozart died.

BrianWilsonFan
#5re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 6:40am

Every possible variation of those eight notes must have been exhausted some time ago...

Variations of a theme however, inexhaustable when tinkered with by the inventiveness of many: - )


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Elphaba
#6re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 9:51am

DG, I love all of the people that say Wagner ruined music, lol

I don't see how as long as the human race exists we could "run out" of any art form......


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All_For_Laura
#7re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 9:52am

There is always something fresh and new. I don't think we can possibly run out. Too hard.


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cturtle
#8re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 9:56am

SM2, i have thought of this before. so you're not crazy. or we both are re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?


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jasonf
#9re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 10:42am

There are only 26 letters in the alphabet -- will we ever run out of ways of mixing and matching them to make new meaning?


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Katurian2
#10re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 10:44am

Nice analogy jasonf.....very nice


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jsg03jd
#11re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 11:20am

There's also more to music than what we're accustomed to hearing. We are very much conditioned to listen and respond to largely Western scales and melodies. But other musical forms are still being created. For instance, 20th century atonal music abounds and it's difficult to listen to, but who knows? Generations later may deem such material as classics, much as the same way we now revere Beethoven's works, even though they are not widely known today.


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