patapon said:
Alright, brain comment aside... I don't think liking/disliking classical music has anything to do with appreciation. It simply comes down to liking what you hear. That's what's important. I enjoy all genres of music. On my ipod I have rap, metal, blues, classical, jazz, etc. No discrimination here. Hell, I even have a Madonna tune on my ipod (I'm not gay... I'M NOT!!!) Also, I'm a musician whose been playing music ever since I was a child. Not once has intricacy of a musical piece made me enjoy a tune. Impressed? Perhaps... but enjoyed more because of complexity? Don't see how that makes sense from a practical standpoint. People listen to music because they like what they hear... Have you ever thought that perhaps people don't like classical music because they don't like conventional instruments? Or that perhaps the sound just doesn't flow with them? I don't think we need to regard these people as simpletons for not liking what we like. That's just... snobbish... And not true. |
Brain comment aside, he's right. It's the same reason most people find literature boring and will only read popular fiction. They can't appreciate what's going on. If you've never been educated about prose, how are you going to be able to appreciate it? Sophisticated art in general is one of those things where, the more effort you put into it the more you appreciate it. The problem is that most people don't pay attention in English class and are never have the intricacies of music explained to them. The only parts of music/writing that they're able to appreciate are the parts they're able to understand intuitively or teach themselves. That limits them to quite a narrow selection (in thise case, pop music or fiction) of art.
