Eli5: if we are able to recreate modern music (disco, pop, rap) and songs with classical instruments how come people didn’t make those beats or similar songs back in classical times?
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I think it also depends on taste, so to speak. What is good, etc.
Even with in the then-era, a perfect example is of Vivaidi:
>[after leaving Venice] Like many composers of the time, Vivaldi faced financial difficulties in his later years. His compositions were no longer held in such high esteem as they once had been in Venice; changing musical tastes quickly made them outmoded.
Of course, many of the works of Vivaidi is extremely suitable metal nowadays, with some distortion.
Furthermore, traditionally music have concept of what is dissosance and what is not. Blues scale, by traditional music theory, is dissoance (to my knowledge). That in addition to othering of culture. Misirlou will likely not join popular guitar lexicon if not due to more open minded taste, but instead stuck as an oriental music.
Then there’s the timbre. Many modern guitar-oriented music comes about due to the use of distortion, which is traditionally seen as a bad thing. If you compare the timbre, you will also notice that modern day music leans toward more low frequency music, which more or less correspond to Cello’s range; yet what they consider good is Violin’s range.
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