(November 12, 2024 at 9:17 am)syntheticadrenaline Wrote: ...that people compose so much classical music about an imaginary God. Why not write music about the real world? It's beautiful enough.
There's music about nature I admit but I want more. I composed a choral song about a towering oak tree once and I think I also have one about winter and snow. I also have quite a few about birds.
I just sometimes find it a shame that there's no songs about what a gift the eye and optic nerve are or how spectacular it is that flight evolved in so many species - yet we have umpteen songs about God.
What comes to mind for me is that so much of the classic art and literature was created by people who had benefactors (I think that's the right word, not enough waking up quite yet). These benefactors obviously needed to have the means to employ someone in this capacity so it fell to the wealthy - which included churches.
