| > but modern pop music is very constrained in its use of modulation so society has lost much of the grammar of Baroque, Classical and Romantic music. Just to give a sense of context, try this exercise: 1. Pick any modern pop song. 2. Write down every seemingly superficial aspect of the song you hear: vocoder overuse, why an cheesy electric guitar sound accompanies a certain lyric, whether a given sound is employed for irony's sake, which sounds or lyrics are allusions to other songs, etc. 3. Continue until you literally cannot think of anything else significant in the music. If you're exhaustive you should come up with dozens of bullet points for even a short song. Now realize that wrt Schubert, you've mentioned a single such bullet. That is to say-- we're all missing most of the grammar of those bygone eras. |