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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: net.music -- MORE variety, not less
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Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 11:46:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 24 11:46:16 1984
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"Viennese period" seems an improvement over "classical period" (but
do we really want to end all reference to the classicism/romanticism
distinction?  It works alright in art history, though there "neo-
classical" is used, but not so well in literary history).

But "Viennese" doesn't zero in enough:  it could mean the heyday of the
Vienna School (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern) which some may claim still con-
tinues (Arthur Berger, etc.). More confusingly, it could refer to the
period of major middle & late romantic symphonists (Brahms, Bruckner,
Mahler).  More facetiously, it could point to the vast output of Viennese
waltz composers (all those Strausses, Emil Waldteufel, etc.).