"Music is Free"
28 Apr 2009 "Music is Free": In 1809 the only way you could "own" music was to purchase the sheet music. Of course, you'd have to be capable of "playing" the music laid out before you which in all likelihood entailed years of lessons at an instrument, otherwise that paper was only dots on a page. If you could read it but played poorly your music sounded bad. If you were a capable player perhaps your music sounded enjoyable. But to hear that music performed by a virtuouso, that could change your life. The 20th Century gave us recordings. Recordings of brilliantly talently musicians performing works of genius by inspired composers. Now, for the first time, you could hear a performance of Django Reinhart, Dizzy Gillespi, The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, at any time, without having to leave your home! This is a very important distinction: way before the mp3, CD, cassette, 8-track, vinyl album and rotary disc, the only way to ...