>At the time it was written, what we call classical music

>>3030401
Its wrong though. The classical music we still listen to was upper crust music. Folk music which also still survives was different from it.

>>3030401
1)this joke was already made in Star Trek and it was much funnier
2)with the passing of time the availability of music will lessen due to what is reprinted and saved, what is deemed worth saving, etc. "But anon with computers we can save any music, there are recordings thousands of years old, etc." doesn't mean we will listen to all this music.

>>3030416
theres a difference between folk music and clasical music.

A song may be popular in one village in rural England that nobody else has heard. The music composed by famous people and performed at various music halls throughout the entire country, however, would be known by many in a myriad of different cities.

>>3030452
Yes, mostly the rich. The vast majority of the population lived in the country side before the industrial revolution.

>>3030401
>Implying a peasant could even afford to go to a concert, not to mention actually appreciate it

>one day in a few hundred years, rich folks will be on their space yachts leisurely flying to the moon sipping their Martian champagne at their interstellar dinner parties listening to Miley Cyrus

This is what 89IQs actually believe

>>3030510
What is Herr Hitler

>what we call classical music was pop music

Most certainly not. Folk music was played by the common people.

98% of the population would have never heard a Bach composition in their entire lives.

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>>3030401
>mfw people actually believe classical is the predecessor to pop and not folk or church hymns

>>3030401
>>At the time it was written, what we call classical music was pop music
Ah i remember just like it was yesterday, all the peasant plebs crowds at the latest premiere at the Vienna Opera!

>>3030401
actually no, only the classics will be well remembered and fondy looked back on

>>3030401
1. 90% of everything is shit.
2. 90% of the then music was shit.
3. The 10% good music we remembered and still play.

Thus all the "classical music" today is good, since the bad one was forgotten.
This continues to happen all the time, thus people complaining that music is going bad.

>>3030452
That is untrue though, composers often got inspired by folk music, even wrote some too

I know people like to differentiate classical music (smart music) with folk music (pleb music) but there were no real divide between the two, both inspired each others or were one and the same

>>3032539
How do you know it was shit?

>>3032552
It was forgotten.

No. Classical music like that of Mozart and Beethoven has always been upper class music.

>>3030401
No, it's called classical music because it is written by classically trained composers and performed in music hall venues with orchestras. Pop music is not written by trained composers or played by orchestras and thus will never be called classical.

>>3032563
That is a retarded argument, there could be many more reasons explaining why we don't remember them. Were Aristophanes plays lost because they were shit?

Some of the best work of classical music would have been forgotten too if someone didn't stumble on it and decided to cast a light on them

>>3032590
If they are worth remembering, they will be remembered. In the grand scheme of things, a few centuries of staying under isn't anything.
The hero's journey or the treacherous snake and so on are with us for many thousands and tens of thousands of years. These are good stories. I guess Aristophanes wasn't as good.

>>3030436
>1)this joke was already made in Star Trek and it was much funnier
and Futurama too