Post #710852 by tiki mick on Tue, Mar 11, 2014 12:26 PM

Ok, some of you know I am a big fan of classical music.....(and maybe some of you don't care one way or the other)...

But what I find interesting is that all forms of modern music have their root in classical music, and that nothing new is really new at all!

Here are some examples:

Rapping (as in RAP Music and Hip Hop) is actually a technique known as "Sprechgesang".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyT4HLQGxnw

The "slapping" that rockabilly bassists do is actually just a variation of the "Bartok Pizz".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBs53SlEkso

Exotica music as we know it was not really invented in the 40's and 50's, but actually had it's start with Debussy, who attended a world fair and was exposed to Javanese gamelan ensembles....and if you go back even further to the time of Mozart, there was a "Turkish" fashion movement that was very popular at the time (accurately demonstrated in the movie "Amadeus"....)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvnRC7tSX50

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_in_early_modern_France

so there it is!

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/sets/set-3/

I AM A SOCIOPATH!

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2014-03-11 12:52 ]