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RE: Reflecting on the recent Led Zepplin lawsuit...

Most music follows the form and harmonic structure of previous works. This has been true for many hundreds of years, going back to travelling minstrels and Gregorian chant. You can "read all about it" in Grout's "A History of Western Music". VERY RARELY does anyone write a game-changing piece. And then, its style is soon copied and establishes a new style.

Gabrieli, Vivaldi, Albinoni, Tartini, etc., all epitomized a baroque style which typically used several common modal scales, as well as composition structures and chord progressions. "Variations on a common style" might be fun to pursue as a doctoral program. Wait, Prokofiev already did that.

Fast forward...

There are about four main chord progressions in "the blues". Count 'em: FOUR. (Variations don't count!) Rock and roll - seriously?! - there's a reason why 90 percent of garage and bar bands are rock 'n roll, and it ain't "innovation".

"Coffee house folk music" all sounds the same to me. I'm surprised that they're not all suing each other. (Btw - James Taylor, please get some sinus anti-histamine.)

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