Also: composers habitually change the lyrics to suit the music, but no lyricist ever dares to tamper with the music. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://turovsky.org http://polyhymnion.org
> From: Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:17:09 -0400 > To: Howard Posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Acrimony in pop music. > >> There have been plenty of acrimonious breakups in the classical world, >> indeed in the early music world, some of them involving big-name lute >> players. >> >> Art is a passionate business, which magnifies differences of opinion, and >> egos can be large, which also magnifies differences. Enormous amounts of >> money and intense press scrutiny can really blow things out of proportion. >> >> Roman's remark about a "classical personality" being unable to break up with >> himself ignores reality: most important music until the 20th century was >> vocal, and involved a writer of words and a composer of music. Mozart and >> Da Ponte, and Handel and Morell, were artistic committees no less than Elton >> John and Bernie Taupin. > Except the lyricists taking and BEING CONTENT WITH taking the back seat, in > those cases when the lyrics weren't in public domain. > RT > >
