The Logic Off Topic list

Almost every famous composer pushed the boundaries of theory of their day!

Symphonies are very trance like in a way - not from a hypnotic beat, but 
from a free form where the tempo changes and breathes. If you go to a 
good concert it can really take you away. For example, Wagner's Tristan 
und Isolde, or Brahms, 3rd symphony - part 2 or 4th symphony - part 1. 
They flow, they have a consistent musical thought. 

Come to think of it, all music takes us away in some sense - otherwise we 
wouldn't listen to it.

One thing about trance is that it sounds cool because of the instruments 
and affects. Where as classical had a static pool of sound affects, but 
it was the use of those given colors with such imagination that made them 
come alive.

I really like William Orbit - he's sort of the modern day Tomita - but it 
is a bit boring at times. 

>Now about Mozart and Bach. These guys were also making popular music in 
>their days. I read somewhere that some pieces of Bach were despised  in is 
>days, and that they became appriciated long after his death. I bet they 
>weren't thinking in musical structures of their days only. Bach was 
>someone who liked to improvise, so did Mozart.