Stephen <mcavoysATaolDOTcom@> wrote:
> There was also a fashion for composers to write variations of folk music in the
> classical period. Irish and Scottish songs got a makeover from the likes of
> Beethoven and Weber etc.

yeah, composers taking simple melodies and working on them is not something new.

Brahms and folks always worked on folk music.

of course, such widespread musical practice of making whole works on simple
known melodies has no place in today's trademarked, copyrighted and DRMed
record-label-driven world, unless you get a license.

BTW, Firefox and Thunderbird are truly funny:  they correctly spell check
classical composers names, but can't seem to bother with their own spelling...
:P

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