"I arranged the spirituals with an ear toward the later music," he said.
He turned more towards neoclassicism with his later music.
However tunes and lyrics continued to influence later music.
Despite its considerable influence on later popular music, funk rock was not very visible phenomenon during the 1970s.
Without his early work, it is impossible to understand where this later music came from or to judge it fairly.
Cornell wrote lyrics, to which Arnold added some lines and later music.
Fans of the later music should be warned that there are few resemblances here.
This influence stayed with David and shaped a lot of his much later music.
At an early age he became interested in performing sleight-of-hand and later music.
His later music became ever stranger and more extreme, especially in matters of scale.