Why We Don T Need A Coffin For Classical Music

Why We Don’t Need a Coffin for Classical Music Humans like to live in boxes. We live in boxes, both physical and metaphorical, to remain sheltered from the outside world, or what we are uncomfortable with. Not only do we put ourselves in boxes, we put the things we see, the things we learn, the people we meet in boxes. We use boxes better understand a complex subject, concept, object, or individual that we may not be able to wrap our minds around without further knowledge, but when the expansion of knowledge is omitted from the “boxing” process of understanding, we are left with stigmatisms, or stereotypes, which have damaged the public image of many subjects and individuals.
One of the victims of the stereotype is classical music.

In fact, a few, especially those whose music grew to be very popular within the lifetime of the composer, such as Beethoven, were named a threat to classical music, or what was considered classical music during that period. (The New Yorker) As time continued, the works of those composers gave up the pop music role in society to make room for newer developments in music, and joined classical music. The same process still continued into our day, but along the way, classical music got pushed off into a distant genre, along with a portion of its continuing developments. Other branches stemming from classical music, such as jazz, became more popular, and grew in such a way that its listeners began to ignore the connection to its roots. This separation, however, did not kill classical music, but simply decreased its popularity to make room for the evolution and creation of new

In a song, typically, the same two or four chord progression is repeated, with only a few different chords to break the pattern. These same chord progressions are also prevalent and are rooted in classical music. Another pattern using chords that can be found in both classical and pop music are cadences, which are typically put at the end of a chord progression or phrase of music, and the Romantic era composer, Schubert, is the sole contributor for creating the modern pop song structure that centers around a primary chorus, the core of the song itself.