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| quote: | Originally posted by auujay
Exactly, when people complain how classical music all sounds the same and it boring, they are usually thinking of old peices everyone has heard. While modern classical music may still be boring, I find it hard to believe that most people find much similarites between a modern 12 tone piece and a Hayden symphony. |
| quote: | Originally posted by auujay
I think one problem is what people are calling "classical" music. Classical is a lot like the word "techno" it can refer to music played by "traditional" instruments by artists who play works written by composers or else by the specific time period (or "genre" if you will) from mid 1700s to early 1800s with composers like Mozart and Beethoven. The same sort of way people refer to all EDM as "Techno" but it is also a specific style.
The argument that the "Classical" period is over would be moot. To say that classical music in general, aka Orchestra music, is not evolving is totally false. Minimalism is a the popular genre for the past couple decades (composers like Reich, Glass, Gorecki, Part).
I disagree with your conclusion but one point you might want to make to help your side is how modern classical music uses "tapes" and effects. For example Steve Reich's piece "Different Trains" is for orchestra and uses taped recordings of voices that play at key parts and are very directly related to the music. Alan Hovhaness usess whale songs that are taped and played back at certain points of his work "And God Created Great Whales".
In the end EDM is not replaceing anything, well maybe Disco  , it is simply a new kind of music. |
Nice to see that everyone's repeating what I've been saying for years on TA. 
Unfortunately, most people here don't have a clue about minimalism, musique concrete, or the 12-tone system and they think classical is just anything that has a few violins and sounds old-fashioned. The word "classical" is exactly what "techno" is for the uneducated masses.
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