old music that you love

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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!

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Ha, I ws just reading this thread on the 'I hate music' board about getting into older classical as most on that board quite like/love the modern post-50s-to-present day classical.

(and yes this is someone who calls himself PARTCH urging everybody to listen to Beethoven or Mozart)

http://ihatemusic.bagatellen.com/viewtopic.php?t=4577

I have cut-offs. W/classical I quite like lots of modern but find Renaissance pretty wonderful and immediately easy to get into. So I am effectively writing off that 300-year+ (?) period in between Renaissance and Schoenberg although I like the odd recording (Furtwangler 1944 recording of the 9th, for example). With jazz I know more about (through reading/watching docs) than have sat down with stuff from pre-'59. I always want to correct my lack of knowledge with standards and such.

Facts are though I've not started listening to either jazz or classical until about 18/19 I've effectively grown-up with the modern stuff. With classical there is usually one recording of a modern piece and with both modern jazz and classical there is more at stake -- not only is it easier but you're sifting through the racks at the record and tape exchange and there is less of an idea whether this piece/performer/composer will be any good at all.