| To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist> Subject: RE: 20th century music Date sent: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:40:58 -0800 Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
IMHO:
Wow... Cool topic :) The problem (or rather, blessing) with the Twentieth Century in the scope of music history, is that people hear each other's music much more quickly than they did say, 150 years ago. The styles are so unique and so varied that I don't think one could come up with a single name. Is Webern pointilist? But isn't Berg expressionist? (think Wozzeck). What does that say about Copland? Cage? Britten? You see my point...
That having been said, My vote goes for expanding the Romantic era into the 20th century, probably up until 1975. After that, let's call it minimalist. Except for Luciano Berio. Let's call him Dadaist. :-P Then, parallel to the "Late Romantic" era, let's start "Expressionist" whenever Schoenberg decided to "Liberate the Dissonance"
-Christopher Dwyer San Diego, CA
-----Original Message----- From: owner-vocalist [mailto:owner-vocalist]On Behalf Of Sally Mir Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 7:14 AM To: VOCALIST Subject: 20th century music
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
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