Adam Golding wrote:
> Samuel Vriezen <sqv.do.not.spam@xs4all> wrote in message news:<4096439e$0$571$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...
>
>>Adam Golding wrote:
>>
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>>>i've been trying to determine what the pricipal varieties of music
>>>are, and here is my first try: it's oviously way-off--i want to hear
>>>from all of you what YOU think!!!
>>>
>>>
>>>[THE WESTERN ART MUSIC TRADITION]
>>>inlcudies early music, 'avant-garde' or 'new music', and film music --
>>>this category has the clearest boundaries of them all, i think..
>>
>>Except when you include "avantgarde/new music", since that is a field
>>all over the place with generally strong classical roots but just as
>>often with roots in totally different places. Particularly when
>>electronics, multi-media or improvisation become involved, but you can
>>also think of Lou Harrison's gamelan work.
>
>
> i know what you're saying, but nevertheless the 'new music' people are
> almost always people educated in the western tradition branching out,
> not the other way around..
Perhaps, but just today I was reading in one of the serious Dutch papers
about this experimental pop group playing songs using composer Peter
Schat's cutely absurd version of Schoenbergian serialism.
And so it goes. Particularly, I feel, in electronics, the traditional
disctinctions are not so relevant.
--
samuel
concerten.free.fr
http://composers21.com/compdocs/vriezens.htm
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