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Date Posted: 21:14:59 03/02/05 Wed
Author: Lindsay
Subject: Re: Pop music in the ensemble setting
In reply to: Dr. O. 's message, "Re: Pop music in the ensemble setting" on 09:54:43 03/01/05 Tue

From my extensive experience with pop music at the high school level, I came out not really liking it all that much. Yeah, some of it was fun, but I never really got that much out of it, and it never really stuck with me like some other pieces did, particularly the Moses Hogan stuff.

One thing I noticed when we did do pop music was that people threw all their knowledge of musicality and technique out the window, because it was pop music, and they didn't use good technique when singing along to the radio, so why use it when you're singing it in choir? I think that's one of the dangers of pop music, familiarity.

On the other hand though, all music was new once, so who knows who today's Beethoven or Brahms would be? Are the Beatles any less musically valid than Bach? I find myself struggling with this issue - is there as much to learn from the Beatles as there is from Bach? Will kids get more out of Beatles because that's what they're familiar with, or will it just be empty fun, while they slog through "boring Bach?"

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