[78-L] name that era

[DAVID BURNHAM]

If a label, such as "Baroque", is given to a style of music, and is from an era where art and architecture were called baroque, how can you then decide that "The music that is called "Baroque" is not at all Baroque in style."?  It's like saying, "That person who is called "Dave" actually does not look like a Dave at all."  If musicologists have decided to call the music of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and Purcell "Baroque", then Baroque it is.

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On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:32:09 AM, Don Cox <doncox at enterprise.net> wrote:
 
On 29/04/2014, Cary Ginell wrote:
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>> Didn't the term "baroque" not come into common usage until several
>> centuries after the period ended, c. 1750?
>> 
>Yes, and it's a very ill-chosen term.
>
>The music that is called "Baroque" is not at all Baroque in style.
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>But then most names for artistic movements are ill-chosen. "Gothic"
>architecture has nothing to do with the Goths.
>
>Regards
>-- 
>Don Cox
>doncox at enterprise.net
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