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By Tönu Puu

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This publication bargains with the industrial features of fixing attitudes in arts and sciences. the consequences of the general public solid personality of tradition, besides the very lengthy construction interval and lifelong for its items, are emphasised, when you consider that either give a contribution to the failure of standard marketplace strategies. Embodiment of rules, and the implications of contemporary copy know-how for cover of estate rights are heavily tested.

The evolution inside arts and sciences, which frequently turns out to come to formerly scrapped beliefs, is illustrated by way of distinct case experiences, within which the significance of fixing tastes, instead of development right, is emphasised.

The writer makes an attempt an knowing for this utilizing Darwinian evolution together with glossy mathematical complexity idea, expressed in phrases obtainable to the overall reader.

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De gustibus non est disputandum" is accepted without reservation, and we do not dare to distin- 44 3 Patronage guish between good and bad taste. To let individual preferences decide what should be produced is both "rational" and "democratic", so if the general public wants popular entertainment of bad taste, let them have it! 1 Background The character of the consumption of culture, especially of the arts, has undergone very basic change over time. On one hand, consumption has dissipated to a much larger fraction of the population than in earlier times, on the other hand the involvement of the interested consumers has become much more passive than it used to be.

It is only to be expected that culture consumption will be suggested as a proper activity for the unemployed too, quite as it has already been suggested for the retired. If the proponents of political measures for sharing the few remaining jobs among the employed and the unemployed have it their way, we will just witness even more of mere leisure time. As for why culture is a suitable use for the excess leisure time, one single positive factor is usually cited, the negative one, that there is not much else, being referred to already, and that is: improved education.

Monteverdi’s ”Orfeo ”from 1607 is described as ”Favola in Musica” and is composed with an intimate madrigal-like touch to it, whereas Monteverdi’s own late operas from the 1640's, ”L’Incoronazione di Poppea” and ”Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria” are denoted ”Dramma Musicale” and have developed all the elements of opera as we understand it today. Quite alike was the development from the ”Masque” of the English court to opera in the days of Blow and Purcell. 48 4 Changing Attitudes Opera always assumed a big machinery, from Monteverdi on, so it had to be performed in specially equipped houses, and those naturally had a certain audience capacity.

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