Classical Music By Greg Sandow

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To summarize what Greg Sandow says is the difference between rhythm in classical music and in rock music is the difference in rhythm. In classical music, it doesn’t repeat the same rhythm over and over. In classical music, the music is stretchable. Gary Sandow states that classical music is involved with though and rock music is involved with body language. In the first piece with Debussy the song that he was playing sound peaceful and eloquent. It seems as the piece was non-predicable on guessing what was going to be the next beat. I can see what Greg Sandow means by the music is stretchable, it seemed like that song could have gone on for forever. In the song, Route 66 it seems to be uplifting and had a catchy pace to the song. The song had

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