But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic.
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.
The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.