Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Will we ever run out of music to compose?
#0Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 3:12amI'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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Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#1re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 3:14amOnly if you are ANdrew Lloyd Webber
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#2re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 3:45amwhen monkey's write hamlet
#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.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#4re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 4:00amThere are those who have said we did when Mozart died.
BrianWilsonFan
Featured Actor Joined: 1/3/06
#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: - )
#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......
#7re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 9:52amThere is always something fresh and new. I don't think we can possibly run out. Too hard.
#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 
#9re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 10:42amThere are only 26 letters in the alphabet -- will we ever run out of ways of mixing and matching them to make new meaning?
#10re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 10:44amNice analogy jasonf.....very nice
jsg03jd
Broadway Star Joined: 11/24/04
#11re: Will we ever run out of music to compose?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 11:20amThere'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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