not that we should be encouraging labels...

[acroyear]

dammit i did it again and posted what should have gone to classical_music into my main blog...crapity crap crap crap...but generally, what musical genre within the classical forms is most often used to classify the 20th century English composers (Holst, V-W, Elgar, Britten, Tippett, Walton, etc...)?

They seem neo-classical and/or neo-romantic to me, given that they tend to stick to late-romantic tonality (with occasional exceptions), form, expressiveness, and certainly their "nationality" (ala Dvorak & Tchaikovsky; contrast to the atonality of the Shoenburg school and the "objectivity" of the Stravinsky and Prokofiev approach post-1920).  But I was just curious as to how musicologists tend to label (given that they do even when they shouldn't) them.  Certainly Holst and Elgar are still in the time-frame of late Romantic, but both lived on past the standard "end" of that era (1910), continuing to compose well into the 20th century...

And to whomever told me to dig a little deeper into Vaughn-Williams's 8th, thanks again.  It's fantastic.

Comments

[jmthane.livejournal.com]

I think they're all considered "modern".

[i-kissandra.livejournal.com]

What ever happened to that discussion about whether or not a particular progression was "right"? That was interesting, but a bit frustrating because the main guy didn't seem at all interested in truly hearing anything but answers that validated that certain progressions are supposedly "wrong" or don't sound "right"... Anyway, just thought it was cool.