ManxTaxPayer Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 All music and literature is just a natural progression of what went before it. Not all music. Just unimportant music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notwell Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 As if Rolf Harris didn't have enough on his plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bear Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 As the number of notes in the audio range is limited, as is the number of combinations that make sense it's inevitable that there will be similar or identical clusters that get used a lot. Listening to the comparison of the two sections that started this thread I'd say that I much preferred the second chord arrangement and that it was completely different to the first one. Sounds like a desperate "musician" trying to make a quick buck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTaxPayer Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 As the number of notes in the audio range is limited Actually, strictly speaking it is unlimited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bear Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 As the number of notes in the audio range is limited Actually, strictly speaking it is unlimited. If you mean the entire audio spectrum of about 20Hz to 20kHz then only a select number of those frequencies are accepted as musical notes. I'd say about 120 notes that are usable, with ones at extreme ends of the scale being for novelty use only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTaxPayer Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 If you mean the entire audio spectrum of about 20Hz to 20kHz then only a select number of those frequencies are accepted as musical notes. I'd say about 120 notes that are usable, with ones at extreme ends of the scale being for novelty use only. Err, accepted by who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bear Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Oh well, I mean if you like THIS type of music then anything goes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn0tObCDgic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTaxPayer Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Oh well, I mean if you like THIS type of music then anything goes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn0tObCDgic Err, if one disregards the atonal nature of many of the overlaid sounds in the piece on your link, and concentrates on the harmonic progression, one quickly realises the piece conforms very strictly to the tempered Western tonal system that you previously claimed as the acceptable one. Which is wot I challenged and stuff. Poor example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 I'm not a musician but to my ear, the only similarities to Stairway to Heaven are the use of descending chords on an acoustic guitar. Otherwise I wouldn't say that it was in any way similar? I certainly wouldn't have picked up on it and I have never heard Spirit perform Taurus before watching this Youtube clip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weasel Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 What about this from Davy Graham in 1959? listen to the part at around 20 seconds in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWeejHJxGjs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 I'm not a musician but to my ear, the only similarities to Stairway to Heaven are the use of descending chords on an acoustic guitar. Otherwise I wouldn't say that it was in any way similar? I certainly wouldn't have picked up on it and I have never heard Spirit perform Taurus before watching this Youtube clip. Totally agree. Also just watched a clip on youtube pointing out that BACH wrote that music first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweek Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 That Spiiting Image 'chicken song' sounds strangely similar to the Manx National Anthem too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 I'm not a musician but to my ear, the only similarities to Stairway to Heaven are the use of descending chords on an acoustic guitar. Otherwise I wouldn't say that it was in any way similar? I certainly wouldn't have picked up on it and I have never heard Spirit perform Taurus before watching this Youtube clip. It's similar enough for it to have been an inspiration, maybe even a starting off point for the Led Zeppelin track, and that was how Page often worked. But it's been worked and worked into something different, it's clearly not a rearrangement of Taurus, or a case of adding a words or another part (like a chorus or bridge) to the original. This article is interesting ... http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-unoriginal-originality-of-led-zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Led Zeppelin cleared of plagiarism in Stairway case http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36611961 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Led Zeppelin cleared of plagiarism in Stairway case http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36611961 Common sense wins then. World is full of people who think someone else owes them something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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