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The term “classical music” awkwardly covers a huge variety of different styles and genres, a bit like how the term “The American People” covers a huge range of different types of people, lifestyles, etc.
It is an open secret that these days, classical music is not nearly as popular as it once was. This is clearly true, but at the same time, unnecessary and regrettable.
Back in the 1800s, when most of what we now term “classical music” was written, composers did not deliberately set out to create “high brow” and unapproachable/unpopular music. Sure, some composers did write some advanced stuff, but most of what most composers wrote was designed to be enjoyed by as many people as possible. If the composers had no audiences, they’d make no money; they needed to write music that people liked. Back then, they weren’t seen as writing “classical” music, they were seen as writing ordinary and normal contemporary and popular music.
How to Listen to Classical Music
People listen to music differently today and so have evolved their expectations of what music should be. It is only in the last hundred years that music has become ubiquitous. Prior to then, you couldn’t just turn on the radio, or listen through the internet. You couldn’t play a recording on a CD. The only way to hear music was via live performance. Sure, lots of people would perform music in their homes, but if you wanted to hear a symphony, or see an opera or ballet, that unavoidably meant going to a local theater, and of course, only seeing/listening to whatever it was they were choosing to perform.
As a result, hearing music was a special event rather than an everyday everywhere experience. When people attended a performance, they’d (mostly) sit quietly and eagerly listen to it and be focused on the music and the experience, the same way we do now when we attend a movie in a picture theater. They’d not also be getting ready for work, driving in the car, doing homework, cooking, texting, or any of the other activities where we often have music playing in the background now.
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