When it comes to parodies or covers, is there a certain point where the cover is considered to be an original piece? I have thought about this before. What if in 3000 years, every single possible combination of musical notes has been put together, so there would not be any more original music. What would copyright laws do then?
I think that this is a really interesting consideration. I would hope that by that time copyright laws would either no longer exist or would somehow be altered to allow for interpretations of original music. After all, I believe that copyrights should encourage new art forms.
It is also interesting to think about how many songs share the same tune. Even nursery rhymes like baa baa black sheep and twinkle twinkle little star.
This is an interesting thing to point out. Just as Claire mentioned, a lot of nursery rhymes have the same tune, there are also a lot of songs that share a lot of the same note patterns. However, it is not as noticeable unless pointed out.
Is that even possible? I’m not a musician or mathematician, so I am unfamiliar with cord combinations. Are there not infinite possibilities for combinations?
This is an interesting thought. I myself have noticed when listening to music that sometimes songs by different artists will sound extremely similar and even have the same tunes at certain points.
I feel like it is becoming more difficult to determine where a beat originally came from. Then you have artists sampling from each other but who really gets the credit for what they are using. It gets very complicated.