Musicologic Aesthetics of Music
Why
Spiritual Music with Religious Lyrics is Better
Simon
Frith (2004, p. 17-9) infers that: "'bad music' is a necessary
concept for musical pleasure, for musical aesthetics." He
distinguishes two common kinds of bad music: "Tracks which are
clearly incompetent musically; made by singers who can't sing,
players who can't play, producers who can't produce," and
"Tracks involving genre confusion. The most common examples are
actors or TV stars recording in the latest style." Another type
of "bad music" is "rock critical lists," such as
"Tracks that feature sound gimmicks that have outlived their
charm or novelty" and "Tracks that depend on false
sentiment , that feature an excess of feeling molded into a
radio-friendly pop song."
Consider
Elmer Bernstein’s Score of The
Ten Commandments (1956).
Then compare it with music of
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