[78-L] name that era

Joe Scott joenscott at mail.com
Tue Apr 29 09:10:19 PDT 2014


I think 100 years from now people won't be able to hear the difference between Frank Sinatra and Billy Murray or Billy Joel, and won't care enough to try. (I already have a young coworker who doesn't know who Harrison Ford is. As it happens she's not into famous adventure movies made 30 and 37 years ago.)
Joseph Scott
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From: DAVID BURNHAM
Sent: 04/29/14 09:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] name that era

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. d On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:32:09 AM, Don Cox <doncox at enterprise.net> wrote: On 29/04/2014, Cary Ginell wrote: > >> 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. > >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 > > >_______________________________________________ >78-L mailing list >78-L at klickitat.78online.com >http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l > > > _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list 78-L at klickitat.78online.com http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l


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