Bdp, Sorry my wrong: Bluegrass has 2 types of songs: in minor and in major the rest is same.
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How about the vast majority of contemporary country coming out of Nashville--songwriters there have made "reppropriation" a fine art. Case in point...this revealing mashup on YouTube. |
Another 100 % agreement, this time with Marty. I imagine all Baroque also sounds quite similar to those who have yet to hear past the outside surface. Form is only one aspect of music, but yes, the first one heard and recognized. Inside the form are many musical ideas that share only that basic form with one other, just like Blues, Bluegrass, but NOT contemporary Nashville "product"! I have been listening everyday for the past month to two different recordings of C.P.E. Bach's Six Symphonies, trying to, first, "know" them completely (I'm not there yet), and second, to appreciate the differences between the two performances (Pinnock and Hogwood). THAT I just last night got, pretty much. |
Czarivey, you are wrong about bluegrass. I've taught and played enough of those songs to know that it's not so one-dimensional. There are subtleties and musical variations that you apparently have not yet encountered--I know it's not a matter of them "going over your head." For instance, there's a lot of different melodic modes and different chord progressions. You will hear some of the same ones repeated, and often, but there's a lot more there than what you've mentioned. |
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