Klarinet Archive - Posting 000875.txt from 1998/01

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Music: Modern vs. 'Old'
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 08:59:15 -0500

> On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Roger Garrett wrote:
>
> > Modern music can be defined as music of the 20th century, but what Bill
> > described was really sounding like serial/12 tone music.....is this true
> > Bill? Because, even the most frenetic sounding tonal 20th c.
> > composition by either Copland or Stravinksy sounds tonal compared to a
> > lot of the 12 tone music we hear from other composers.

> Edwin Lacy responded:
> There would not seem to be much point of debating about serialism, as that
> has pretty much turned out to be a dead-end street. Hardly any composers
> are utilizing those techniques today. Schoenberg, Webern, and others of
> that tendency had a relatively small following, as compared to the
> "schools" of composition engendered by Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith and
> others.

But it would be nice to know what Bill meant by "modern music", which was
the intent of my posting/question. :)

Roger Garrett
IWU