Elevator music/Salon music/Light music ?

[messiah]

Do anyone knows a term which describes the music you hear in hotels, airports or train stations?

I think someone would regard it as elevator music but I think it should have a term for it. Does anyone knows what it is?

Any answers would be much appreciated.

[mlsmithz]

Muzak, perhaps?  It may have rather derogatory connotations but I think it was originally coined to describe music used in the way you describe.

[leahcim]

Any answers would be much appreciated.

Wikipedia has some stuff

Background / furniture / elevator et al :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_music

Muzak Trademark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak

[mrdaveux]

You guys need to stop.

We classical musicians can be so snobish at times, labeling other musics as inferior (I'm sure many of you would say that Clayderman plays elevator music, for example).

What makes these musicians inferior, really? I mean, many people love them and are touched by their music, so what's the problem?

Not that I particularly enjoy, let's say, Rieu or Bocceli (but then, after listening to Beethoven opus 111, not many things can move me so much), but many do, and there is no reason to undervalue them.

Each kind of music should be valued for what it offers and how it moves people, and not in comparison with other kinds. Well, just my opinion...

[zheer]

Good point , i actually like Rap music and i never listen to classical music when driving or weight training, i prefer pop music it gives me motivation.

[leahcim]

What makes these musicians inferior, really?

I don't know, you tell us

[mlsmithz]

You guys need to stop.

We classical musicians can be so snobish at times, labeling other musics as inferior (I'm sure many of you would say that Clayderman plays elevator music, for example).

What makes these musicians inferior, really? I mean, many people love them and are touched by their music, so what's the problem?

Not that I particularly enjoy, let's say, Rieu or Bocceli (but then, after listening to Beethoven opus 111, not many things can move me so much), but many do, and there is no reason to undervalue them.

Each kind of music should be valued for what it offers and how it moves people, and not in comparison with other kinds. Well, just my opinion...

Er, pardon?  This post makes no sense in the context of this thread.  Where in the posts made to this thread before your reply did anyone say any sort of music or the people who play it are in any way inferior?  Messiah asked if there is a term to describe background music played in airports etc., I thought perhaps Muzak covered the term, and leahcim posted a couple of relevant and rather interesting Wikipedia links.  What is so offensive about that?

And leahcim, thanks for the Wikipedia links - I remember taking either an ACT practice test or the ACT itself ten or eleven years ago and running across a reading comprehension passage about the development of Muzak from the 1930s onward (including the fact that its use seemed to increase productivity in offices and factories), but I had forgotten that it was actually a trademark (one which, like Kleenex or Hoover, is now used just as often to describe the product irrespective of its manufacturer as it is to identify the actual Muzak Corporation).

[messiah]

Thanks a lot for your reply. Actually I'm really looking for the term "muzak". I've seen it a few weeks before and I've looked up in the dictionary, but suddenly I forgot it when I really need that term.

I didn't mean to label musics other than Classical music as inferior. I know there's no reason to undervalue them. I enjoy such music when I heard it in places such as shopping malls or airports. I hope you guys won't "misunderstand" the purpose of my post.

Thanks again for all of you. It helps me a lot.