Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] SV: RE: Perceptual basis of evolving western musical styles From: Martin Braun <nombraun@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 12:35:19 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear Fr=E9d=E9ric, Could it be that your question is somewhat extremely incomplete? Some "western" musical styles continued to evolve until today, whereas=20 others were deliberately terminated by certain interest groups. Academic art music that calls itself "western" has been fighting a war=20 against the very concept of further evolution in art music, and that for = the=20 past 100 years. How meaningful, or how ridiculous, such academic exercise= s=20 were and still are is a matter of controversy. Not, however, that they do= =20 not fit the term "evolution". Martin ------------------------------------------- Martin Braun Neuroscience of Music S-66492 V=E4rmskog Sweden http://www.neuroscience-of-music.se/index.htm ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "fr=E9d=E9ric maintenant" <fmaintenant@xxxxxxxx> To: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 7:55 AM Subject: Re: SV: RE: Perceptual basis of evolving western musical styles Sorry to interrupt again. Would you see any difference in the evolution o= f=20 western musical style between 1960s and 1980s? or 1900s and 1920s? FM=20