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Old 10-21-2004, 03:11 PM   #6 (permalink)
merula
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Enya comes under the category 'BIN' lol,

Modern classical, I haven't heard anyone use that term.

Contemporary music is often used to describe music composed by living composers on classical instruments, or in classical form, e.g symphony, concerto, suite etc....


Often though conteporary composers are drawing reference from popuar, traditional, jazz and other music so the styles of writing are less defined. Breaking away from types of harmony that were used specifically in certain era's, e.g baroque, early nineteenth century music from vienna etc..

I think the classic fm publicity machine along with a lot of the classical music interest mags are a tthe moment trying to sell a lot of young artists as cool and modern classical or chic and fresh, but most of the music they are singing or playing is hundreds of years old.


bla bla bla,

I could go on for hours.

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