Early days of classifying music is different than todays standards. The days before the internet (yeah there was a time with no internet, there were more board games) only experienced a handful of genres. these genre could be classified into three distinct subjects.
Folk: Songs and pieces that have been passed down in cultural through the centuries. Often basic, these songs would tell stories.
Art: These were classed as complexed music. Complexed music meaning the music they may have involved reading skills and advanced knowledge of music and instrumentation to play. This could also go along the lines of the complexity of the composition of the piece.
Pop: Music that is popular to the time era and to the majority of the population.
The problem with these class types is the vagueness in which they operate. Musical styles can be seen as a combination of Art, Folk, and Pop. So if you would imagine in your head a triangle for all three of these categories, now imagine the song “Hallelujah”. This song has a folk background in the sense that there is a story being told and it has been passed down by several art its from different generations. It falls the Art scheme due to the complexity of the piece, and it can be found on the movie Shrek (I think of Scottish ogres every time I hear that song). So this method of classifying genre does not work. What it does do however is show the effectiveness of the piece to last the test of time. If you think about, If you have a song that is past down from generation to generation, still holds weight in the general public, and is still seen as an artistic piece with viable complexed components, then you have a song that I will still be blasting in my hover car when I’m 80.
Bri-Guy 2072: “OH BABY YOU, YOU GOT WHAT I NEEEEEEED……..”
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