Contemporary Classical Music...

[amitmis]

Please mark the option that most fit you.
I am really interested to read your opinions...

Amit.

[healdie]

Its a very broad poll this you can't really compare John Cage to Hindesmith

so I voted I don't mind it cause i love alot of it but not all

[communist]

i like a lot of it but a lot of the time they just write screechy crap

[iumonito]

First of all, I think to answer the question meaningfully it would be necessary to have a definition.  Contemporary music, for me, is music written in the most recent 25 years.  Under that definition, the Ligeti Etudes for piano solo are contemporary music, but the music of Bartok, Schoenberg, Gershwin, Hindemith and Messiaen is not.

The line is arbitrary, but it let's me keep as contemporary the likes of Crumb, Finnissy, Rzewski, Kapustin and Toovey while excluding music that does not sound modern to me, such as Khatchaturian, Prokofiev, Ginastera and late Rachmaninoff.  At the same time, stuff that I consider really forward-looking (such as Boulez, who wrote his more important piano works to date well before 1984) gets excluded.

[healdie]

I think we are straying back into the debate of defining Modern and contempory because as I have found different schools, countries etc all have a different definition of the terms Modern and Contempory

[richard black]

'Modern' is about a vague a term as one could think of, but 'contemporary' means 'living at the same time as', so contemporary music means music written in the lifetime of the current generation. Still not numerically exact of course, but at least there's a definition of sorts!

[retrouvailles]

I would like to see a history book 100 years from now to see what they call the period that started after the Romantic period. I really would. I would bet that they wouldn't call it contemporary or modern though, unless all of the bullcrap nomenclature today continues.

[Etude]

The 'Contemporary Period', from 1900-2108!

We should probably just name them by century from now on.