RE: [Opinion] How does Classical Music differ from other Genres of Music?
Folk music also has skill and tradition behind it that everyone through history has enjoyed, not just upper class citizens enjoying classical music in opera houses in Bach's era.
Of course classical music has a certain refinement and sophistication but at the end of the day almost all genres are built on the same musical elements and principles of melody, harmony, rhythm, tempo, beat/meter, dynamics, pitch, texture, timbre, etc... classical music excels because of the dynamic range of the instruments available to the composer I reckon, which allows a greater palette of emotions to be expressed through sophisticated arrangements....
Words represent the closest instrument we have to the soul, the human voice and we all have a voice!
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Thanks for this comment, it is well thought out. Many composers actually composed using themes from forgotten folk music in regions around them. For example, Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos uses themes from folk music. Bartók uses scales, and forgotten themes from folk music in this. Another classic example is Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy. We played Lincolnshire Posy this year in wind ensemble. It was a lot of fun to view how Grainger incorporates themes that had never been written down, and in most cases only sung for centuries (passed down orally). It has a lot of weird time signatures as a result, but it is quite beautiful (especially the second movement).
You are right that almost every genre uses the same foundations, I feel that classical music has a much more strict definition of how each of the principles is to be used, while other genres, Jazz for instance, have looser rules that allow composers to almost always go out of the box. I guess it's a question of musical taste.
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Thanks for the follow! It's nice to see/hear classical music represented in the music section on steemit. I'm following someone on here who plays piano and is a composer inspired by Strauss, Wagner, Schubert, Brahms, etc.. You may like to check out some of his work/posts. His username is @senzenfrenz and he's great! The composition in his first post is amazing.