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We all enjoy music for different reasons, some more superficial than others. If you pay close attention you notice there are certain things you pickup when listening to music you enjoy and it is what makes listening to such music so great for you. Cor example, some songs have bad melody but great rhythmic complexity or maybe syncopation that completely take your mind off of that part of the music. Some have great atmosphere but are weak in other terms. This isn't always weakness, it could be intended by the artist. My favorite part of music to focus on is harmony, comparing intervals and voices in my head takes more mental effort and as a result feels amazing to put together and really makes the beauty in music stand out. Why is it that in the modern era of music, we have almost abandoned harmony? Pet Sounds was imo the last album that glorified harmony and required that kind of ear, and was almost perfectly done for the modern world of music. Why is it that we carried melodic interest, rhythm, atmosphere, and timbre into pop music but almost never emphasize harmony?
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you said it yourself. you really need to actually listen to what you put into your ears to enjoy harmony. modern pop music is meant to deliver instant gratification and be as catchy as possible without any mental effort. it's "background" music
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Are you sure contemporary music is completely devoid of harmony? It cant be the hardest thing to nail is it? What of the non popular contemporary genres/styles of music?
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Perhaps because it is more expensive than the others you name. - I mean in concrete terms of rehearsal time and number of people in the studio. Popular culture tends to follow the path of profit, so the first thing to go was complex harmony.
Though the more likely explanation is that it died with Pet Sounds exactly because Pet Sounds -- And early Beatles. It's hard to overestimate the cultural dominance of these groups. Perhaps bands avoided harmony precisely because they wanted to avoid that shadow of those groups on them,
Anyway, isn't harmony back? Since pop music started to go really electronic, it's been back, I think. It sucks. But it's there.
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