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I mean, aside from church music, most classical music is also folk music with some nerd writings and a wanky veneer to appease the aristos that was later reified by Mahler and Wagner. Most composers learned from hearing other composers, and from occasional slices of sheet music that wandered around. Most music was local.
It's not like Vincenzo Galilei was developing formal tonality from studying the church, he was using local lute tunes. This whole art music gig is a farce.
I mean, aside from church music, most classical music is also folk music with some nerd writings and a wanky veneer to appease the aristos that was later reified by Mahler and Wagner. Most composers learned from hearing other composers, and from occasional slices of sheet music that wandered around. Most music was local.
It's not like Vincenzo Galilei was developing formal tonality from studying the church, he was using local lute tunes. This whole art music gig is a farce.