From: "Sally Mir"
Organization: IS-SISP TECH SUPPORT
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Subject: 20th century music
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

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 know there are names that describe music of different compositional techniques in the 20th
century (expressionistic, pointillistic, dodecaphonic, etc.), but how could we classify the
entire period?

Let's take a poll: What would YOU call it if you had to name it?

Sally Mir