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Originally Posted by Weca
Or, they can do something new, and discover that people like it. Otherwise how have we gone from Bach to Benny Goodman? Seriously.
If a composer does something new, and discovers that no one likes it, but doesn't like whatever is currently popular, then try something ELSE new and see if people like that.
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Something new, eh?
Because certainly, I'm sure nobody in the baroque period, classic, romantic, etc didn't just bang their pianos out of frustration, or played wrong notes. The difference is they never thought that could be considered valid means of expression (though there ARE experiments, it's been always considered that Mozart or Haydn's experiments were always disguised as "jokes" or "parodies" as it'd be safer on their reputations than if they stood behind them as proper experiments.)
There's nothing new under the sun, there has never been. The question is, is it really people that do new things, or is that people perceive things that have always been around differently (or at all) as time moves on?
PS: Haha, what you're talking about "doing something new and seeing if people like it" is actually manipulating trends by introducing new elements into the popular/trend canon. It still doesn't do anything to help the popularity vs composer problem since if everyone was able to manipulate the public like that we wouldn't be having this conversation!