Learned music

Summary

Dominique Pagani thinks of learned music in its relation to popular music. He sees it culminate in Bach, whose counterpoints form the "higher mathematics" of musical writing. Yet these counterpoints remain in step with dance rhythms and popular structures12. In his view, it is serious when learned music cuts itself off from popular music. He gives as an example a certain contemporary music of the early twentieth century3. In 2022, he specifies that the learned and the popular do not correspond to genres: both are found in jazz, in song and in classical music4. Jazz serves him as an exemplary case. He defines it as "the most learned of popular musics and the most popular of learned musics"5. He adds that the bop musicians won a chamber music "through hard struggle"6.

1. 1B for Bach16 Dec 2014 · 8:57
2. 2John Lewis: classical or jazz?29 Jun 2022 · 2:06
3. 3B for Bach16 Dec 2014 · 10:13
4. 4From Bach to the Pygmies22 Jun 2022 · 12:34
5. 5John Lewis: classical or jazz?29 Jun 2022 · 3:05
6. 6#6 The jazz variation… by Beethoven15 Dec 2020 · 1:02:59

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