Agreed. Music is as subject to style and period as readily as any other art form. A purist who discounts this is showing a lack of musical education, not endorsing their selves as they may think that they are.

It would be wonderful to have opportunity to hear classical pieces or any song exactly as they were composed. We can often enjoy this now, on newer works, since the age of modern recording began. However, I imagine that if everyone insisted that they hold perfectly true to the original, then many of the classics would be lost over time as people would simply lose interest in hearing them.

Style refreshes, inspires discussion and renews interest over the generations. The 'Purists' have their place to help preserve the originals where possible but to insist that this is 'the only way,' shows a shallowness that lowers their staure in my books, rather than raises it.

Just my own uneducated opinion.


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