100 Hundred Years from Now

ElwoodHerring wrote: The beginning of the 20th Century was the time when music really started to get interesting. It was a time when composers were starting to be influenced by sounds from the far East and elsewhere; more and more "ordinary" people could afford to go to concerts (the Henry Wood Promenade concerts had started in the 1890's in London, and are still going now), plus the invention of sound recording was bringing more and more music into people's homes. Composers were experimenting with tonality (Schoenberg) or different scales (Debussy), and there was an explosion of new music available to more people than ever before. If you were a music lover in 1906, you were living in a time of amazing musical developments which would continue for at least another 30 years! As for Britney Spears, I can only repeat what Sir Arthur Sullivan said about - and recorded on - Edison's new invention in 1888 (one of the oldest recordings in the world): "I am astonished and somewhat terrified. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed; and terrified at the thought that so much hideous, bad music may be put on record forever."

I have to disagree. Music was VERY interesting even in the Baroque era. Bach did more with tonality than most composers would even attempt for the next 200 years. Seriously, even his "light" material is tonally perfect and the structure is quite amazing sometimes. Take a listen to his 2 and 3 voice inventions (I would recommend the Glenn Gould recordings). The man was the KING of chromaticism in my opinion. Plus his "Art of Fugue" is an amazing work, putting to shame even many of those later romantic composers for sheer brilliance.

Even before that though, there was music that was amazingly interesting. Check out some isorhythmic motets by Josquin Desprez, or some Madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo for some medieval and renaissance craziness.

As for composers such as Schoenberg, I am not tremendously impressed by atonal music, especially 12-tone serialism. BLAH! Its best use in my humble opinion is in horror movie scores.

Rorro wrote: maybe people will be all brain washed, and inteligent people will not be able to think

Wait, that's happening now!.............

Jack-a-lynn wrote: Currently I am building a time capsule that automatically plays "Spirit of Radio" when you open it. It's gonna be awesome.

Just hope whoever finds it doesn't take it to the Priests of Syrinx...

Rorro wrote: Sacred 22 wrote: I was wondering about this the other day and after a while it hit me. The album that polorizes the people who adore the band itself. The album bought up quickly upon release after what many call the most ground breaking album ever released. Yes, after much thought it could be none other than Tales From Topographic Oceans. It's just a hunch, but I get the feeling that this album will be very sought after in 2106, assuming of course we have not been attacked by aliens, swallowed up by the sea, or worse yet, still being around to see if it comes true. didn't you see matrix?, we'll be dominated by computers, and they won't like music so..., i'm sorry but ther's no hope for Tales From Topographic Oceans

Dominated by computers?  Well hopefully they keep ProgArchives online so that

1. They have access to the ultimate progressive music resource

2. Humans can proove that proggers like Jon Anderson saw it all coming

3. Learn that all of us thought that we thought of what Jon Anderson thought of after he thought of it

4. Learn that AtLossForWords used the word thought a lot in line three 

I'm not sure this thread is turning out the way SACRED 22 intended.  He may want to ask the question in a different way.

I see no reason why some prog will not be considered classic in 100 years.

Genesis, Yes, Beatles, Zep are 35+ years and still going strong with classic status.  I see no reason why that will not continue.

It has yet to be seen though, because the LP as a form did not come into prominence until mid-to-late 60's.