Nicholas J Roberts <[log in to unmask]>:
>A student of mine came up with an question I found really difficult to
>answer today-
>
>Sir We've got all these periods of music Renaissance Baroque Classical
>etc. We've called music from L'apres midi d'un faune Modern but now
>in the 21st century what should we call it?
>
>Suggestions?
Two at least:
a) "Impressionist", but this term has supposedly a lot of problems and has
been dismissed, so it seems to be "scholarly incorrect" to use it nowadays.
(I like the term, BTW).
b) "Post-romantic" is another option. This term is often applied to German
post-wagnerian music and (under the variant "french post-romanticism") to
some french musicians as Faure, D'Indy, Dukas etc. I don't know why
couldn't this general term be applied to Debussy and Ravel too.
Concerning the term "Modern", you should ask your students whether they
would honestly use this word for a music coming from the times of their
grandfathers' grandfathers ;-)
Pablo Massa
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