At 09:14 AM 1/11/04 -0500, Linda Worsley wrote:I record mostly "serious" or :"classical" music... I call it "art" music, but honestly there is no good word for it, is there?
"Art music" and "serious" can apply to many genres, and "classical" carries too much baggage.
Me, I always use "classical," which I have become completely comfortable with over the years. I would argue that it is the term recognized and used by the general public, that it denigrates no other branch of music, and that it can be clearly differentiated from the Classical period by the use (or not) of a capital letter. Compare "romantic" vs. "Romantic." No problem there, right? Also consider:
his baroque reasoning the renaissance of our decayed waterfront their positively mediaeval legal system a byzantine plot
Try "nonpop" as your meta-genre.
Some sub-genres can be partly in both pop and nonpop (some significantly, such as jazz, film, and religious music).
If I encountered this neologism I would take it to include all of jazz, world music, roots music, and anything else not sold on the ground floor of the record store.
-- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press
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