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My question is regarding predominantly synthesizer or electronic sounding scores.
What in your opinion makes a synthesizer score sound dated?
Is it a particular type of sound closely associated with a specific year or the over use of a specific type of sound?
I ask this question because a lot of the time, you always hear the response from (typically, snobby anti electronic types) that a synthesized score will sound dated no matter what.
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To me they seem more of a gimmick than 'proper' music.
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Most music sounds "dated" to the extend that it is a product of its time (and culture). Bach's music sounds different from Mozart's. Electronic instruments have only been around for a few decades and whithin this time period, their capabilities have greatly changed, so whatever composers did with electronic instruments twenty years ago is bound to have a different sound from what composers do nowadays. But many of us remember "twenty years ago", and even those who do not are likely to recognize the typical 80s or 70s synth sound as such. The music sounds "dated" because we recognize the "age" of the music.
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Nov 18, 2016 - 7:09 AM
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SchiffyM
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Anything feels dated (whether it's a certain synthesizer sound, a paisley tie, or a singing Big Mouth Bass that you put on your wall) when time leaves it behind. Many scores realized electronically used sounds that seemed fresh at the time but sound thin now.
They don't have to, of course, and it's all a matter of personal taste. But it's really no different from the close harmony used in songs from the '60s, or the often very literal use of "Rule, Britannia!" or "La Marseillaise" in scores from the '30s to signify location changes -- techniques that have fallen out of favor, which peg the music as being of a specific time. Of course, tastes continue to change, and what was dated last year could be hip and retro next year. (Is affection for 8-bit music waning yet? If not, could it please?)
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To me they seem more of a gimmick than 'proper' music.
LOL
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"Dated" is a word that doesn't exist in my vocabulary.
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But I don't find classical music dated at all. It transcends time. It's timeless.
I agree with you if you mean by "dated" "outdated". I did not want to imply anything negative.
I was merely referring to the fact that more or less the time period in which a piece of classical music is composed tends to be obvious. I find the music of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Schönberg all timeless and their works transcending time, yet they are also a product of their time.
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Everything is "dated" - is was done at a certain point in time.
So many use the word "dated" as "old" and "boring" or "cheesey". That is completely absurd and only sets those people up for a major disappointment if the sound they currently consider cutting-edge will sound "cheesey" to the next generation.
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