@William said:
Yeah, you are right we should not lapse into the "everything was great back then and bad today with these young whippersnappers" stuff. I don't think that actually.
It would be interesting to look into the future and see what this forum would be like 30 or 40 years from now. Those "whippersnappers" might be posting things like, "what happened to the good ol' days when we use to just write block chords and let our sequencer's arpeggiators do all the work? Now everything has to be so thought out, planned and emotional. Now, everybody is so concerned with score structure and craft. Composers, if they want to call themselves that, are so concerned with writing themes and motiffs and counterpoint like those old boring Classical composers use to do. You're all a bunch of HACKS!!! You hear me?!?! YOU HACKS!!! By the way, can somebody tell me what the hell is an arpeggio anyway? Nobody could ever write like H.Z. Man those were the days. Discussions could get quite heated like they do today.
Then of course Dietz would have to issue the dreaded stern 'I'm about to shut this thread down' warning but the posters wouldn't know what he's talking about because poor Dietz has gotten a little senile in his old age and he posted his warning in the wrong thread[|-)]
Just kidding Dietz[:D] Happy New Year to you!