> "Bach is (was) the dance music of yesteryears (follow the 3/4). (Mozart was probably rock)" Not so much. Bach and Mozart were employed by quite wealthy indiv

> "Bach is (was) the dance music of yesteryears (follow the 3/4). (Mozart was probably rock)" Not so much. Bach and Mozart were employed by quite wealthy individuals to compose and perform pieces for nobility and aristocracy. The only way the proletariat population would have heard their work would have been in a church-setting of some sort, probably performed by someone with very little skill or training. >"we never got to hear Bach's time crap music" More than you might imagine, actually. While folk songs were rarely written down in any sort of musical-notation there were (and doubtlessly still are) scholars who worked tirelessly at uncovering these old works as best they could and those were the real 'dance music' of the era. Songs written on the same 4-chord pattern we use this very day and age. Songs about love, loss, friends, family, etc. Typically upbeat and always set to a beat that you could sway your hips to. Instrumentation would have been based on either a piano, flute, or that century's particular flavor of stringed instrument. It's been a good while since I studied this subject, I'll see if I can dig up a source for this info tonight.