Well it is all a matter of personal opinion, isn't it.
I like Bach and can't stand Mahler, my wife feels the opposite. It is 
true that most people I know can't stand the sounds of the pipes. But 
their blood doesn't rise with it. Mine does, my gain. I don't like pop, 
my loss.

BTW Is Bavaria not part of Germany or is that some parochial prejudiced 
creeping in?


On 12/16/2015 5:37 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 16.12.2015 um 10:33 schrieb Stephen:
>> On 12/16/2015 12:53 AM, clipka wrote:
>>> Am 15.12.2015 um 21:09 schrieb Stephen:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry but after listening to that and about 20 minuets of you tube.
>>>> Colour me hard to please. I would rather listen to mouth music or the
>>>> Irish lilting, even.
>>>
>>> You just don't know good sound when you hear it.
>>
>> True with only one or two notable exceptions. Music became either
>> trivial or disharmonic after the romantic period.
>
> I strongly disagree; there's plenty contemporary (read: 20th century and
> later) non-trivial harmonic music to find. As for the trivial or
> disharmonic, I guess it has always existed; it's just that it is long
> forgotten as far as romantic and pre-romantic times are concerned.
>
>
>>> Not that I'd have
>>> expected anything else -- after all, your people's idea of music is to
>>> stick wooden tubes into goatskin bags and puff them up until they whine
>>> and wail :-P
>>>
>>>
>> In response (if I were to sink so low) all I can say is  Volkstümliche
>> Musik.
>
> That's Bavarian, not German :-P
> Besides, at least they use equipment that /could/ be employed to produce
> sound remotely worthy of being called music.
>
>
> (I'm glad you didn't mention Karlheinz Stockhausen though. /That/ was
> true German crime against music, against which even your pipes pale in
> comparison.)
>


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Regards
     Stephen

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