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Subject: Re: Music, real, discussion of
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Date: Mon, 19-Dec-83 01:50:50 EST
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Terminology:  I tend to use the term "classical" to refer to all music
within the genre.  I use "period" to modified by the adjectives "classic,"
"romantic," "modern," etc.

Real Art:  Good question!  While I have particular pieces I listen to
regularly that have been composed after 1955, I doubt that they would
qualify as masterpieces.  Then, again, the economics of the time mitigate
against great works of art.  Serious composers these days tend to work
in films or television where quantity is respected over quality and brings
in dollars that would have amazed composers of the 19th century.
Either that, or they are in academia "composing" serial music.

Real art revisited:  I have no love for any form of serial music.
Not being a computer, I am not quick enough on my feet (or ears, as the
case may be) to appreciate that formal truth and beauty of these
works on the fly. :-)  "Transfigured Night" eats it, but there are
whole bunches of other compositions that are worse.
--

					Byron Howes
					UNC - Chapel Hill
					(decvax!duke!unc!bch)