From: Karen Mercedes
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Subject: Re: 20th century music
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Sally Mir wrote:

> Speaking of 20th Century music... We have lovely names for the different historical periods
> in music -- Baroque, Classical, Romantic, etc. -- But then we have this completely
> non-descriptive moniker for the music composed in the past 100 years. Do you all think it
> will always be known as 20th Century Music? Or will some other adjective eventually come to
> be the accepted label?


I hear "modern" and "post-modern" bandied about a lot. The former seems
to describe the musical period that is post-Romantic but before the Cold
War. Post-Modern seems to fit music composed during/after the Cold War
(except for "retro" music that is still merely "Modern").

KM
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