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Re: What are the *Most General* Categories of Music??? what are the main 'traditions'?? University of Michigan
Dr.Matt (fields@asteroids.gpcc.itd.umich.edu) 2004/05/03 16:51

In article <cd483cf9.0405031236.544b4b10@posting.google.com>,
Adam Golding <adamgolding@adamgolding.com> wrote:
>"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:<4096335E.1F78@worldnet.att.net>...
>> Nicolai P. Zwar wrote:
>> >
>> > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>> >
>> > > Um, you posted this to the classical music group (why?) and omitted
>> > > classical?
>> >
>> > It's clearly inlcuded in "The Western Art Music Tradition".
>>
>> Except that lots of other categories are listed explicitly. The author
>> would do well to give just a tiny bit of thought to its categories
>> before publishing them.
>
>i assumed that everyone knew that mozart, for example, was in the
>Western Art Music Tradition, and was only mentioning the ambiguous
>caes...  that being said, the entire reason i'm 'publishing' these
>categories is because i'm thoroughly unsure of them..

Being unsure is a good thing, actually.
A lot of people are afraid of it, but it's the core stuff of
open-mindedness.



--
        Matthew H. Fields http://personal.www.umich.edu/~fields
                         Music: Splendor in Sound
"Hey, don't knock Placebo, its the only thing effective for my hypochondria."
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