My 18 year old son is having a bunch of friends over in his bedroom... His taste in music... Classical! I just heard them all singing to
Frank Sinatra - I did it my way!!! Lol!!! Those old souls!!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Classical though? It's not Classical in the strict sense, nor "classical" generically.
It might be a "classic" of its time, at least in sales, the Big Band and crooning era of American, light "popular" music. I do have misgivings about that third adjective as it implies - wrongly - that any other style is not popular..
It might be a "classic" of its time, at least in sales, the Big Band and crooning era of American, light "popular" music. I do have misgivings about that third adjective as it implies - wrongly - that any other style is not popular..
Vandhana6633 · 36-40, F
alan20 · M
Congratulations to your son!
bookerdana · M
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@bookerdana One of those is "classical", but whom?
Music, rather like geology, goes in eras but with rather diffuse boundaries because many composers spanned those.
Mediaeval to Rennaisance. Much of what survives is sacred rather than secular. E.g. Hildegaard of Bingham.
Baroque: e.g. The Bachs (J.S. and C.P.E.), Buxtehude: .
[brief Rococco period]
late-Classical / early-Romantic:. Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart.
Romantic: Mendelssohn, Verdi, Tchaikovsky:
Modern: Holst, Sibelius, Shostakovitch, Britten.
Contemporary (i.e. now): Richter, Pärt, Reich. with -
- Avant-garde - contempory, experimental, very much on the fringe.
Years ago the jazz trumpeter Benny Green, I think was his name, wrote a weekly column for The Mirror, (British "red-top" newspaper). I rarely read that paper but do recall him once commenting on musical tastes and labels. He asked if a Verdi opera would be thought the less of if identified as written by "Joe Green". Joseph Green? Yes - Guiseppe Verdi!
Music, rather like geology, goes in eras but with rather diffuse boundaries because many composers spanned those.
Mediaeval to Rennaisance. Much of what survives is sacred rather than secular. E.g. Hildegaard of Bingham.
Baroque: e.g. The Bachs (J.S. and C.P.E.), Buxtehude: .
[brief Rococco period]
late-Classical / early-Romantic:. Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart.
Romantic: Mendelssohn, Verdi, Tchaikovsky:
Modern: Holst, Sibelius, Shostakovitch, Britten.
Contemporary (i.e. now): Richter, Pärt, Reich. with -
- Avant-garde - contempory, experimental, very much on the fringe.
Years ago the jazz trumpeter Benny Green, I think was his name, wrote a weekly column for The Mirror, (British "red-top" newspaper). I rarely read that paper but do recall him once commenting on musical tastes and labels. He asked if a Verdi opera would be thought the less of if identified as written by "Joe Green". Joseph Green? Yes - Guiseppe Verdi!
bookerdana · M
Classical though? It's not Classical in the strict sense, nor "classical" generically. ...I don't need long winded cut and paste replies that add nothing
