Hi, I'm a lurker at Roz's journal. So it's not just me that it seems weird that CBC plays excerpts from western classical pieces and not the entire pieces. Mind you, I have the attention span of a butterfly on icing sugar, so it's probably just as well for me. I wonder, is it fair to compare pop songs to Western art song as opposed to symphonies? Obviously opera and lieder are much more demanding vocally on average, but then again it's customary from what I've seen as a music student in North America for folk songs like "Sally Gardens" to be included in the curriculum. One of the reasons why Bollywood singing is of such a high quality is that it's practically mandatory for even pop singers to study either Hindustani or Carnatic light classical song. And of course opera for the longest time was the pop of its time (correct me if I'm wrong.) And another thing to remember is that in Western pop (not in Bollywood, however) elaborate singing has a way of leading into American Idol territory.
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Date: 2008-01-31 02:00 am (UTC)I wonder, is it fair to compare pop songs to Western art song as opposed to symphonies? Obviously opera and lieder are much more demanding vocally on average, but then again it's customary from what I've seen as a music student in North America for folk songs like "Sally Gardens" to be included in the curriculum. One of the reasons why Bollywood singing is of such a high quality is that it's practically mandatory for even pop singers to study either Hindustani or Carnatic light classical song. And of course opera for the longest time was the pop of its time (correct me if I'm wrong.) And another thing to remember is that in Western pop (not in Bollywood, however) elaborate singing has a way of leading into American Idol territory.