From the blog Futility Closet:
I am astonished at the foolish music written in these times. It is false
and wrong and no longer does anyone pay attention to what our beloved
old masters wrote about composition. It certainly must be a remarkably
elevated art when a pile of consonances are thrown together any which
way.I remain faithful to the pure old composition and pure rules. I have
often walked out of the church since I could no longer listen to that
mountain yodeling. I hope this worthless modern coinage will fall into
disuse and that new coins will be forged according to the fine old stamp
and standard.
– Samuel Scheidt, to Heinrich Baryphonus, Jan. 26, 1651