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Will classical and blue grass music ever merge into a new genre of music?
I think a major song publisher ought to hold a year-long song writing / composing contest based on the theme that blue grass and classical can be fused together into a new genre of music. I know that Copeland and others like Gould created music in this vein, but they really did not go very far with it, in my view.
Copland and Gould did not go far in the fusion of ‘folk genre’ and classical because there is a disparate premise between the two types of music: Development, elaborate harmonic development, and modulation. Classical presupposes a lot of both.
Certain minimalists, ala Glass, have tried to make a very different premise work, but that is based on classical listeners’ habits, which include expectations of how classical music usually behaved, and re-directing the listener someplace else from those expectations.
There is a well-known fiddler who has composed pieces with folk-fiddling as a base (I cannot recall the musician’s name) but those works hold no great interest to contemporary classical listeners in general.
There is always a possibility someone will do it and make it work. You could be the first.
Best regards, petr b.
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