old music that you love

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

looking at tom's popular entry on louis armstrong -- whose 20s music i ADORE -- and thinking abt the lex's "b-but i am too young to know" device, i started thinkin abt CUT-OFF POINTS IN TASTE

ie do you or do you not have an EARLIER THAN THIS I CANNOT GO as part of yr listenin armoury? if so sa wot

the earliest piece of music i am aware of liking is SALTARELLO (warnin: may be locked to non-sukratlings) -- it is 700 years old!

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't *think* so i.e. I like Saltarello too! And quite liked the ANCIENT GREEK music that I heard, w/the caveat that obviously it is in no way "ancient".

On the other hand I don't listen to pre-20th century music much if at all.

The earliest 'pop' CD I own is a compilation of some 10s/20s swing band called "Dardanelle".

If truth be told I do not go back and listen to the early 50s No.1 hits very much.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

saltarello may be a bit of a cheat, in that it has "survived" -- largely via DEAD CAN DANCE -- bcz it suits our modern ears better than other music of its day

also of course you can like it and sharply dislike music of (say) two centuries later


"access point into pre-'pop'" = soundtrack music as regards "classical" and jazz -- tho of course then you "know" it (and like it?) w/o knowin what it IS

[mooxyjoo.livejournal.com]

i think that discontinuity is a key factor in totally turning the intuitive premise of your question out the window.