Question:
Music Appreciation Question?
Hey =]
13 years ago
As Machlis and Forney suggest the music of the Baroque era was composed in an era steeped in absolutism, monarchy, and belief in the doctrine of affections, ideas that today seem out-of-date. The music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was also composed in times very different from our own in which institutions like the church had much more power than they do now, and systems like feudalism shaped the lives of Europeans.

Why should music composed in these eras have relevance to listeners today?

Why should it not be understood merely as a historical curiosity?
Three answers:
del_icious_manager
13 years ago
Isn't the idea of music appreciation that YOU think about this and come-up with your own conclusions, rather than cribbing off complete strangers, about whose credentials for answering you know nothing?
lainiebsky
13 years ago
I'm sure there's information relevant to that question in your class notes. Look through them and I'm sure you'll get some ideas for the essay.
Sfag
13 years ago
Because God is real and the government is a sham. The Church should have been in power all along and this separation of church and state is just a plot by Obama and his cronies to force religion (the foundation of America) to be forgotten, so that we lose our morals.



Listen to medieval music and do not forget the moral lessons to be learned from it.


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