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Another entry in the ongoing real-world musical saga I call “Music didn’t suddenly get good when a lot of people learned how to play fast.”
Let’s reminisce about another point in history when people would slather creative works— visual, architectural, or musical… clothes, hairstyles, digestive tract— with as much ornamental decoration as possible, rendering the object’s structure into a formless mass of exquisitely elaborate froth.
During the Rococo period in 18th c. France, the superprivileged degenerates patronizing the arts were demanding infinitely increasing visual and aural luxury. Direct statement of a creative idea was thought to be howlingly gauche, and art self-vaporized into a swirling sweet-smelling cess-cloud of ornament pirhouetting endlessly around ornament off into the stratosphere, until some people had enough and everyone was executed.
This phenomenon was exemplified in the hideous harpsichord music of the period:
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Hilarious! And very true. Thanks, I almost spit out my morning coffee!
Great rant !!
Thanks!!
I don't think the panda ever did make a mark on that pumpkin.