I don't know just what "classical artists" you mean, but the suggestion that classical composers might insert small passages into various works to identify their composer gave me a giggle. Imagine the first eight notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (which, to be fair, do have echoes in some of this other works, including the last four notes of his Ninth Symphony), interpreted to mean:
This is by me!
Ludwig van B.
On Tue, 14 Feb 1995, Nic Herriges wrote:
>
> Actually, my point was somewhat overstated. Very few trademarks are used
> by their owners in every single instance. Many entities possess several
> trademarks that identify their "product." An artist who could work a
> short identifying riff into a multitude of different works and managed
> to keep his/her audience interested enough to keep buying the works would
> be an artist indeed. I also believe it was fairly common for classical
> artists to repeat "trademark" passages in several of their pieces.
Received on Wed Feb 15 1995 - 15:08:10 GMT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Mon Mar 26 2007 - 00:35:14 GMT