Journalism In Context: Classical Music & The Dawn Of Music Criticism
Music Writing Music Writing is all writing about music, this includes poems, books, movies, plays. The writing often isn't specific, it doesn't't name a piece of music or a composer, but it states how music can improve you as a person and tells you what music you shouldn't be listening to. Evidence of this ranges from thousands of years ago, when music was sacred, to recent years where certain types of music have been related to acts of violence and rebellion. Music criticism Music criticism is different to music writing as you need to analyse a specific piece, type or composer of music. Criticism can be positive or negative, you give your personal opinion. Music criticism could only start being written when music became available to everyone, not just the church or people who could afford to pay musicians. This happened in the classical era when the church lost its influence on music, people could now write what they wanted to and they could perform it where e...