Bad Music.
"First there is the innocently stupid, the insipid song; then the intentionally stupid, the song ornamented with all the stupidities that the singer takes into his head to make...Next comes the vicious song which corruptis the public and lures it into bad musical paths by the attraction of certain capricious methods of performance, brilliant but with false expression, which is revoting to good sense and good taste. Finally wehave the criminal song, the wicked song, that unites with its wickedness a bottomless pit of stupidity, which proceeds only by great howls and enjoys adding noisy melees to the long drum rolls, to the sombre dramas, to the murders, poisonings, curses, anathemas, to all the dramatic horrors that provide the occasion to show off the voice..." Hector Berlioz c1840
That's the intro to my music textbook called "Bad Music". I think I'm in for a fantastic semester :]
That's the intro to my music textbook called "Bad Music". I think I'm in for a fantastic semester :]