Sensory imagery, and sonic imagery in particular, exist in continual flux, as do nature and the human condition.
As cultural conditions change, the artist and composer may be found in harmony with the prevailing social, intellectual, and emotional attitudes, becoming an exponent of contemporaneous manners and tastes; if this is not the case, and there is no such aesthetic correspondence, works by individualistic artists may be oriented against those expressions in common currency, or outside them altogether.
As cultural conditions change, the artist and composer may be found in harmony with the prevailing social, intellectual, and emotional attitudes, becoming an exponent of contemporaneous manners and tastes; if this is not the case, and there is no such aesthetic correspondence, works by individualistic artists may be oriented against those expressions in common currency, or outside them altogether.
