{Tradition in Music}[20th September 1990]

[Redbook7:311][19900920:1040]{Tradition in Music}[20th September 1990]

19900920.1040

Another of many references, today,* to the way popular music is looking back – partly to the classics, mostly to the Sixties and early Seventies – practically to the exclusion of contemporary popular composers.** But of course: once again, just as 1968 – 1976 – 1984 was the arc G~-R~-C~,*** with music peaking perhaps 1/8th[-cycle] earlier than expected, so we are approaching the ‘classic’ arc 1992 – 2000 – 2008, S~-M~-U~ as we earlier left the romantic side.

‘Classic’**** does not mean classical music so much as an emphasis on tradition, on looking back rather than innovating; this is closely related to its sense in the classic v romantic conflict.

*ref [The] Guardian 19900920:27

**[And to a considerable extent still is, though there is (for a daily listener to Classic FM radio) perhaps a sense of the beginnings of what might replace it, in the combination of developing film music and a new kind of ‘serious’ or ‘classical’ music, particularly by contemporary female composers, with cross-fertilisation between the two. <20220109>]

***[64-year cycle]

****ie above <900921>

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