I think they would be astounded that a performance of John Dowland's lute solos
could be had for say $15 USD. Especially when Dowland played for royalty and
the upper classes (ie: made some money doing it). It's funny, but a
photographer or painter can now (and in the past) charge hundreds or thous
Modern music is highly commercial. A typical modern person might go a
year, hearing music only from professional musicians.
Music is encoded onto plastic, shrink-wrapped, and professionally mass-
marketed. Its market value is protected by litigation. Concert tickets
are sold by anonymous corpo