Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: net.music -- MORE variety, not less Message-ID: <605@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 11:46:16 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.605 Posted: Fri Feb 24 11:46:16 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 03:33:51 EST References: <1254@unc-c.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 11 "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.).