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

[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.