RE: My Opinions on the Decreasing Popularity of Classical Music
Classical music is boring and repetitive and long
I would not have expected this statement, the world is more and more into dance music, going to club evenings and festivals. In the Netherlands, it almost seems the only thing late teens and early 20 year old are doing in the weekends. And to be honest, I know quite e few styles in Dance music that sounds much more repetitive than classical music. But yeh, on the other hand I also can understand the statement.
I always like to see music promoted at events where the people are. So what about bringing in a classical stage at some big dance festival. I've seen different styles of music being more and more accepted by the young people by doing so. People getting more and more lazy I think, but they are still susceptible to learn, but one need to bring it too them.
I have also noticed that the dance music played at homecoming is very much redundant. I am going to remake a point I just made in another response. Composers have developed methods in order to avoid repetition much more so than modern dance composers. I used the example of Sonata Allegro Form, which helps you by providing guidance for writing longer works without sounding too repetitive. I don't know if it is necessarily laziness that causes people to write repetitive music. I think it is a lack of knowledge in how to write a longer work and not sound redundant. However, I am sure that when classical was first starting out, composers were much more redundant. I feel like repetition is an issue that may be solved for other genres as they are given time to develop their own methods of avoiding repetition. Classical composers have centuries of knowledge and experience under their belt. Thank you for the feedback!