Re: musical genres

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

> This is an entirely different question! Artists cannot
> be classified the same way that music is. 

Fine, then. Genre-classify the following 5 CD's:
1) Salim Halali- Ses Plus Grand Succes (aka L'Album D'Or Vol. 1)
2) Klezmatics- Jews With Horns
3) Captain Beefheart- Shiny Beast 
4) Miles Davis - On The Corner
5) Leonard Bernstein- Mass

Did that get any easier?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "I. Oppenheim" <i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 3:26 AM
Subject: musical genres


> On Sun, 4 May 2003, Eliezer Kaplan wrote:
> 
> > > Are there no such things as musical genres?
> 
> I would say that music can be classified in
> genres (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic,...)
> 
> > let's play a little game. Genre-classify the
> > following five artists
> 
> This is an entirely different question! Artists cannot
> be classified the same way that music is. Artists and
> music are different categories. If one would classify
> artists it would be according to their musical
> approach, such as playing style, etc.
> 
> 
>  Groeten,
>  Irwin Oppenheim
>  i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl
>  ~~~*
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> 
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