Thesis: the average 18 year old student in, say, York in AD 800 (the middle of the so-called "Dark Ages") had read more, knew more languages, was better trained in logic, could read more music, knew more mathematics and astronomy than the average student from a university today.
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In my world that's not particularly special (especially among Asian kids) In Bach's world it was a sign of immense luck and privilege - if just a few things in Bach's life had gone differently his music would never have existed
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And you're trying to tell me people knew more about music and were more educated musically in the year 800? Fuck
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Speaking as a fairly heavily trained musician who has put on gigs in a semi-professional capacity: dude is full of shit and knows shite-all about musical theory
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speaking as someone from the year 800 AD we had one lute with 2 strings in York at the time and we more likely to be startled by the sounds of the strings producing sound than we were to learn how to fucking compose sonatas
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