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Entry: The Death of Music by the Spirit of Government Subsidies Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_death_of_music_from_the_spirit_of_government_subsidies#15317 Post contents: 1. B makes an important observation. With the coming of "music television" all music has stopped development. In "hot" media, or at least electronic media, the visual drives out the auditory. TV culture is amusical. Americans are an unmusical people. My impression is that the Italians are now the same. Not so the Middle Europeans! 2. Boyd Cathey is quite correct. The Archduke trio wasn't paid for by the democratic State. Democracy, as Cooper and Tocqueville observed long ago, drifts toward the mediocre, at best. "Serious" music has always been for an elite -- an elite that anyone can join if he will. 3. Let me take something from the gent from Istanbul and run with it. for 500 years Western music, of all sorts, has had just 12 notes. One wonders if we have done all we can do with those notes. One would think that with the capacity to play deep notes down to 20hz with a computerized synthesizer, and then using the overtone series, new notes could be developed. Just a thought. Sent at: 2008 08 30