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In popular usage, the term classical refers to all european music written before about 1900 or so, and music written since that fits an older style
by gbear605 7y ago
In popular usage, the term classical refers to all european music written before about 1900 or so, and music written since that fits an older style
- Freak_NL 7y agoStrictly speaking not all music written before 1900. There was no rock or pop music of course, but I wouldn't lump folk music (the kind sung in taverns and to goats by lonely goatherds¹) under classical music. The line gets blurred at some point of course, but that has always been the case (Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is four parts rock and one part opera, and the Radetzky-Marsch has all the makings of a hit pop record — well, back in those days at least). 1: My apologies if that song got stuck in your head now. Give the Laibach cover a listen if you want it out of there.
- lb1lf 7y ago-Your comment made me chuckle as I was in fact listening to that fine act of Slovenian cultural imperialism as I read it - Opus Dei, by the way. Slightly less off-topic, I have been listening to lots of classical music over the years - in no small part because of a music teacher in secondary school who didn't just put on a record to let us know what, say, Beethoven, Händel or Shostakovich sounded like, but rather brimmed with (genuine) enthusiasm and a heartfelt joy of being able to share this great music with us. The enthusiasm was contagious.