The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #63856   Message #1040437
Posted By: GUEST,Les B.
23-Oct-03 - 11:31 AM
Thread Name: Creating modern traditional music
Subject: RE: Creating modern traditional music
To clarify my comment about "popular" music - Yesterday I put "Civil War" in the search engine at the Levy Sheet music site and got over 1500 hits. Of all those written and published songs, I would estimate that only two to three hundred of them are known or performed today. What was it that gave some songs staying power and caused others to drop out? Catchy melody, riveting words, political correctness, what ???