Is there really such a thing as "original" music if

>Immature artists imitate; mature artists steal; bad artists deface what they take, and good artists make it into something better, or at least something different.
- TS Elliot

>>74086185

>making money out of your music is immoral

>>74086261
that's... not what that means

>>74086267

Its because your "good" artists are so "good" that no one practically knows about their existence.

t. Theodor Adorno

Music isn't only chord progressions (harmony, really, it's what you're looking for), rhythm matters and so does melody. And even then people might find ways to fit in really odd chord progressions that they didn't know before. In any case, this whole notion of the Second Viennese School that music was just made of the same building blocks rearranged in different ways is actually just a big load of bollocks that ended up driving classical music further from the masses than ever before.

As to John Williams' music versus Gustav Holst's, John Williams' has said he was very inspired by Holst's The Planets (especially Jupiter) and wanted to capture that same atmosphere.

muh "pleasing" chord progressions
listen to Elliott Smith
or like, Scriabin

>>74086159
>listening to the music to please the ear

>>74086281
TS Eliot was one of the best known poets of his day, so were most of the poets he was around and influenced by. Go back to /b/.

>>74086159
Chords do not have to perfectly harmonize to sound pleasant or interesting. It is often the addition of dissonances that make music emotional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVPu71D8VI

>>74086159
Noise isn't formulaic and it sounds interesting sometimes.

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>>74086159
>dude it's all just chords lmao it's all just the same 12 notes, what is "original" REALLY, lmao
Really, REALLY made me think. Great thread OP