BAROCOCO

In music '''Barococo''' is H.C. Robbins-Landon's term for certain late Baroque and pre-Classic easy listening music, specifically "crisp, impersonal, concertante music" (Fink 2005, p.172). The term combines Baroque and Rococo and was coined during the height of the Baroque revival as a criticism of the distracted listening and easy class or enjoyment of the average listener. This reception was encourage by countless long playing records length of play and strength, which made possible uninterrupted pieces and record changing. The manner in which these records where played, repetitively and for long periods of time, rather than the individual pieces, make these recordings repetitive music, and the mode of listening this encourages, distracted and without comprehending structure, make it ''Barococo''.
See also: Seymour DeKoven, Jeff Koons.

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★ Fink, Robert (2005). ''Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice''. ISBN 0-520-24550-4.