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Message: <blockquote data-quote="randeelwrw" data-source="post: 4146672" data-attributes="member: 23178">yeah..There are couple of influences behind the formation of this kind of music style.. During 18th centuary, programs were tend to come up with 'program music' which is a type of art music intended to evoke extra-musical ideas, images in the mind of the listener by representing a scene, image or mood musically. Also the events and changes that happen in society affects the music.(this is what's happenning in SL now.. Iraj and others fools ' music is just a reflection of the society) The Industrial Revolution was in full effect by the late eighteenth early nineteenth centuries and that might affect the romantic style of music...The other reason is the 'rise of the middle class'. Well.. w.r.t. to Sri Lankany modern society.. this is really a negative factor.. During the romatic period there were a lot of people (in fact many rich people ) who loves and are addicted  to this kind of music. That why its get so popular and many composers were not afraid to compose music with the free flow...  But in Sri Lanka .. its the total opposite ... I don't think even 1% of Sri Lankan music listerns would love to listen to this type of music.. That's why Kasun is not so popular in the society while fools are very popular.. (fool = Iraj, Chinthi,  'you name it')Also most of the Sri Lankans still consider H.R. Jothipala as the greatest musician every produced by SL.(however I like some songs of Jothipala.. and I'm not trying to say he is not talented... He is far far better than most musicians in the modern society).. I don't know why people think in such manner... I don't know why they can't understand the value of Ameradeva or Kemadasa.Finally... Chaminda has just started his radical work.. Romantic music is not just something formed just by a single composer (or lyrist) but a collaboration of many artist..so we need many artist like Chaaminda, Kasun, Indrachapa, Nadeeka etc. Also the composers in Romantic perioid were more or less inspired from the greats'' like W.A. Mozart and Hayden...  So SL guys need to do that as well : learn the best Sri Lankan music from their ancestors like Amaradeva.. Victor.. Sunil Edirishinghe... Kemadasa.. etc</blockquote>

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