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At its beginnings, new age music was closely related to the New Age movement of beliefs, therefore, its contents have been constantly associated with mystical matters clearly present within the cultural movement. Today, it has become associated more with general relaxation and is taken lightly by most listeners, although a strong mystical perspective is often presented through the packaging of the music and the venues of purchase. To be specific, the mysticism present is characteristic of the 21st Century New Age movement—it draws freely from religious traditions around the world with very little deference to the clarity of the traditions' histories. This also can be applied to the music structures, instruments, and timbres. Often composers will utilize traditional instruments (or synthesized versions of them) with little relation to the musical context of their origin. For many critics, ethnomusicologists, and the like, this is the major criticism of this musical style: its vapid and potentially hegemenous appropriation of musical material and instruments. However, the musical structures can be understood in relation to many other forms of music that are taken much more seriously. Most New Age music falls under the category of the repetitive or the static. This relates to two takes on trance music, also influenced by the music of other cultures. The Indian influenced minimalism of Terry Riley, Tony Conrad, LaMonte Young which utilized drones beginning in the Early 1960s, and also the music of Ghana (West African) derived tonal minimalism of Steve Reich. However, a more apt direct connection is with the less formal and more popularised take of Brian Eno. Also connected is the resurgence of interest in Gregorian Chant during the 1960s. The large percentage of music described as New Age music is instrumental, and electronic music, although vocal arrangements are also common. In many cases, very few acoustic instruments are used and high-quality samples are used instead. Enya, who won a Grammy for her new age music, sings in a variety of languages, including Latin (language), in many of her works. Medwyn Goodall, not as widely known, relies mainly on electronic keyboard effects, and includes acoustic guitar as well. Although more rock than new age in genre the 1967 successful musical ''Hair (musical)'' with its opening song "Aquarius" and the memorable line "This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius" brought the "New Age" concept to the attention of a huge world wide audience. Arguably, this music has its roots in the 1970s with the works of such free-form jazz groups recording on the ECM record label such as Oregon (band), the Paul Winter Group, and other pre-ambient bands; as well as ambient music performers such as Brian Eno. It is often claimed that Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" was the first new age album. Music labeled New Age often is intended to represent a vision of a better future, expresses an appreciation of goodness and beauty, even an anticipation, relevant to some event. Rarely does New Age music dwell on a problem with this world or its inhabitants and is generally apolitical; instead it offers a peaceful vision of a better world. Since most of the music is instrumental, rather than vocal, these interpretations are often left to the listener's imagination. Often the music is celestial, such as when the title names stars or deep space explorations. Ennio Morricone wrote the entire score for the movie ''Mission to Mars'', and while the credits flash we hear All the Friends, New Age orchestral style. In addition to the name "New Age" some composers and listeners refer to the music as "Space Music." An interesting connection to make here is with other composers interested in metaphors of space, but with contrasting aesthetics such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sun Ra, and even Parliament/Funkadelic. In all cases, notions of space are related to salvation in one way or another. The titles of New Age music are often illuminating, because the words used by the artists attempt to convey their version of truth, in a few short words. On listening to the music, one may understand the idea within the title. Examples of titles: Bond of Union, Sweet Wilderness, Shepherd Moons, Animus Anima. Other artists and record labels related to New Age music include Solomon Keal, Windham Hill Records and Tangerine Dream The "Concordium" utopian community in Richmond, England promoted vegetarianism in the period 1842-48. They also published two magazines - "The Heatian" and "New Age". Is it any coincidence that throughout the 1980's this style of music achieved more sales in alternative medicine shops than in music stores? ==External links== * [http://www.innerpeacemusic.com/ Inner Peace Music] - home of Steven Halpern, one of the primary originators of new age music. *[http://www.synthtopia.com/Articles/ElectronicMusicStylesNewA.html New Age Music] - a guide to new age musical style, including an extensive set of CD reviews. *[http://www.hos.com/simple.html New Age Music Made Simple] - overview by Hearts of Space's Stephen Hill. *[http://www.solomonkeal.com Solomon Keal Piano] - home of Solomon Keal ==See also== *List of new age / new instrumental musicians Ambient music New Age
New Age music survived vfd. Per discussion it is now on the cleanup list. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/New_Age_music -- User:Wile E. Heresiarch 21:05, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC) ---- moved from User talk:Lexor --User:Lexor|User talk:Lexor 16:22, 4 May 2004 (UTC) ==New_Age_Music== I see you did some work on New Age Music. This article contains most of the Music sub-section from New_Age, word for word, then a nice little table with other links. Do you think this is right to copy and paste a section from a longstanding article just to make a new one? User:BF 00:17, 1 May 2004 (UTC) :I did not create New Age music, I merely copyedited (check the history) and haven't looked at the parent New Age article itself. However, it is a good practice to include a two or so paragraph summary of an article in the parent article with a ''Main article:'' link to the daughter article which is a longer extension of that summary, which will often include the initial summary from the parent article, e.g. Simulation and Computer simulation. In general that's warranted when it is likely that the daughter article will be expanded with additional information beyond what would be wanted in the parent article, which would probably be the case with New Age music. --User:Lexor|User talk:Lexor 03:28, 1 May 2004 (UTC) You know this article was written without any effort at all. Write a few sentences, grab most of the theme and content from New Age, and add a cute little table at the bottom which doesn't give the reader much to research. Lazy? Yeah! User:BF 22:32, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC) "At its beginings, new age music was closely related to the New Age movement of beliefs." I'd like to see some documentation for this. In fact this article is of very poor quality. It suffers from the same problem as the easy listening article: the people who listen to this style of music very rarely describe it as such - and if they do, they usually refer to a much more specific style (e.g meditation CDs), rather than the styles labeled as such by detractors (e.g Enya). People who listen to Enya will only rarely work on the new age article when explaining their kind of music, because they don't listen to new age music. Other people do that. What are we going to do about this? right now this article is not far from being useless.User:Vintermann 13:24, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC) == Suggested definition == New Age Music is really popular in my country, and by New Age Music people basically understand all those meditation/relaxation CDs that are around. Particularily the label Innovative Communications ([http://www.ic-digit-music.de 1]) had its share of artists that were considered notable: Software, Anugama, G.E.N.E., Karunesh. Also artists such as Suzanne Ciani, Kitaro, Cusco, Space, Gandalf (yes, "Software", "Space" and "Gandalf" are actual band names) - those have at least surfaced here or there, in the press, on illegal MP3 compilations - compared to numerous other musicians ("John St. John" for instance..) who are virtually unknown. All of the bands/musicians I've mentioned make slow, ambient electronic music, which centers on (that is, with album/track names, or album covers, photography, liner notes..) themes like meditation (Anugama, Software), exotic places (G.E.N.E.), dreams, etc. (Especially meditation (and concepts like tantra, mantra, chakra - things from eastern philosophies) is a recurring theme, and I guess this is why a lot of people think that "New Age Music is connected to the New Age movement of beliefs"). And this, well, seems to be the definition of New Age Music. As for artists like Tangerine Dream, Enya, Vangelis, Klaus Schulze,.. - well, firstly, their music is very different from what I've described, even though they all have some pieces that sound like generic electronic soundscapes (sic!). Seconldy, several of them (Tangerine Dream) have repeatedly stated they hate the term "New Age Music" and do not consider their music that. Thirdly, they have armies of devoted fans who protest against all kinds of labels connected with "New Age". So I mean, would it be an acceptable solution to define New Age music by describing it like I did above, or like it is briefly described in the article (''The large percentage of music described as New Age music is instrumental, and electronic''), and to list several artists from Innovative Communications and similar labels (if someone can actually find those - I don't own any meditation CDs, but I believe at least some of them would have information on record labels) as 'new age musicians'. Other artists (Enya, Vangelis..) could be placed on the same page with a notice saying that they're not widely considered "New Age", and that their music can sometimes be very different from the kind of music described in the article. I'm not sure if it is NPOV to connect meditation/relaxation CDs and New Age Music, but (a) 'new age/new instrumental' is what ''at least some '' of those CDs are labeled and (b) there's no specific term for the kind of music on meditation CDs, which is calm, repetitive and electronic - yet the variying definitions of New Age Music agree that it is calm and electronic. I don't want to make any edits to the article at the moment, since I have no idea if the definition I offer is going to be accepted. So, could anyone offer opinions on what I'm suggesting? :) -- User:Jashiin 19:47, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Mike Oldfield == Doesn't classifying Tubular Bells as the first New Age album contradict the definition given in the first place that the beginnings of New Age music were closeley related to the mystical matters of the New Age movement? Oldfield originated from the jazz-related and somewhat humoristic Canterbury Scene. User:84.174.254.240 10:59, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
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At its beginnings, new age music was closely related to the New Age movement of beliefs, therefore, its contents have been constantly associated with mystical matters clearly present within the cultural movement. Today, it has become associated more with general relaxation and is taken lightly by most listeners, although a strong mystical perspective is often presented through the packaging of the music and the venues of purchase. To be specific, the mysticism present is characteristic of the 21st Century New Age movement—it draws freely from religious traditions around the world with very little deference to the clarity of the traditions' histories. This also can be applied to the music structures, instruments, and timbres. Often composers will utilize traditional instruments (or synthesized versions of them) with little relation to the musical context of their origin. For many critics, ethnomusicologists, and the like, this is the major criticism of this musical style: its vapid and potentially hegemenous appropriation of musical material and instruments. However, the musical structures can be understood in relation to many other forms of music that are taken much more seriously. Most New Age music falls under the category of the repetitive or the static. This relates to two takes on trance music, also influenced by the music of other cultures. The Indian influenced minimalism of Terry Riley, Tony Conrad, LaMonte Young which utilized drones beginning in the Early 1960s, and also the music of Ghana (West African) derived tonal minimalism of Steve Reich. However, a more apt direct connection is with the less formal and more popularised take of Brian Eno. Also connected is the resurgence of interest in Gregorian Chant during the 1960s. The large percentage of music described as New Age music is instrumental, and electronic music, although vocal arrangements are also common. In many cases, very few acoustic instruments are used and high-quality samples are used instead. Enya, who won a Grammy for her new age music, sings in a variety of languages, including Latin (language), in many of her works. Medwyn Goodall, not as widely known, relies mainly on electronic keyboard effects, and includes acoustic guitar as well. Although more rock than new age in genre the 1967 successful musical ''Hair (musical)'' with its opening song "Aquarius" and the memorable line "This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius" brought the "New Age" concept to the attention of a huge world wide audience. Arguably, this music has its roots in the 1970s with the works of such free-form jazz groups recording on the ECM record label such as Oregon (band), the Paul Winter Group, and other pre-ambient bands; as well as ambient music performers such as Brian Eno. It is often claimed that Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" was the first new age album. Music labeled New Age often is intended to represent a vision of a better future, expresses an appreciation of goodness and beauty, even an anticipation, relevant to some event. Rarely does New Age music dwell on a problem with this world or its inhabitants and is generally apolitical; instead it offers a peaceful vision of a better world. Since most of the music is instrumental, rather than vocal, these interpretations are often left to the listener's imagination. Often the music is celestial, such as when the title names stars or deep space explorations. Ennio Morricone wrote the entire score for the movie ''Mission to Mars'', and while the credits flash we hear All the Friends, New Age orchestral style. In addition to the name "New Age" some composers and listeners refer to the music as "Space Music." An interesting connection to make here is with other composers interested in metaphors of space, but with contrasting aesthetics such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sun Ra, and even Parliament/Funkadelic. In all cases, notions of space are related to salvation in one way or another. The titles of New Age music are often illuminating, because the words used by the artists attempt to convey their version of truth, in a few short words. On listening to the music, one may understand the idea within the title. Examples of titles: Bond of Union, Sweet Wilderness, Shepherd Moons, Animus Anima. Other artists and record labels related to New Age music include Solomon Keal, Windham Hill Records and Tangerine Dream The "Concordium" utopian community in Richmond, England promoted vegetarianism in the period 1842-48. They also published two magazines - "The Heatian" and "New Age". Is it any coincidence that throughout the 1980's this style of music achieved more sales in alternative medicine shops than in music stores? ==External links== * [http://www.innerpeacemusic.com/ Inner Peace Music] - home of Steven Halpern, one of the primary originators of new age music. *[http://www.synthtopia.com/Articles/ElectronicMusicStylesNewA.html New Age Music] - a guide to new age musical style, including an extensive set of CD reviews. *[http://www.hos.com/simple.html New Age Music Made Simple] - overview by Hearts of Space's Stephen Hill. *[http://www.solomonkeal.com Solomon Keal Piano] - home of Solomon Keal ==See also== *List of new age / new instrumental musicians Ambient music New Age
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New Age music survived vfd. Per discussion it is now on the cleanup list. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/New_Age_music -- User:Wile E. Heresiarch 21:05, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC) ---- moved from User talk:Lexor --User:Lexor|User talk:Lexor 16:22, 4 May 2004 (UTC) ==New_Age_Music== I see you did some work on New Age Music. This article contains most of the Music sub-section from New_Age, word for word, then a nice little table with other links. Do you think this is right to copy and paste a section from a longstanding article just to make a new one? User:BF 00:17, 1 May 2004 (UTC) :I did not create New Age music, I merely copyedited (check the history) and haven't looked at the parent New Age article itself. However, it is a good practice to include a two or so paragraph summary of an article in the parent article with a ''Main article:'' link to the daughter article which is a longer extension of that summary, which will often include the initial summary from the parent article, e.g. Simulation and Computer simulation. In general that's warranted when it is likely that the daughter article will be expanded with additional information beyond what would be wanted in the parent article, which would probably be the case with New Age music. --User:Lexor|User talk:Lexor 03:28, 1 May 2004 (UTC) You know this article was written without any effort at all. Write a few sentences, grab most of the theme and content from New Age, and add a cute little table at the bottom which doesn't give the reader much to research. Lazy? Yeah! User:BF 22:32, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC) "At its beginings, new age music was closely related to the New Age movement of beliefs." I'd like to see some documentation for this. In fact this article is of very poor quality. It suffers from the same problem as the easy listening article: the people who listen to this style of music very rarely describe it as such - and if they do, they usually refer to a much more specific style (e.g meditation CDs), rather than the styles labeled as such by detractors (e.g Enya). People who listen to Enya will only rarely work on the new age article when explaining their kind of music, because they don't listen to new age music. Other people do that. What are we going to do about this? right now this article is not far from being useless.User:Vintermann 13:24, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC) == Suggested definition == New Age Music is really popular in my country, and by New Age Music people basically understand all those meditation/relaxation CDs that are around. Particularily the label Innovative Communications ([http://www.ic-digit-music.de 1]) had its share of artists that were considered notable: Software, Anugama, G.E.N.E., Karunesh. Also artists such as Suzanne Ciani, Kitaro, Cusco, Space, Gandalf (yes, "Software", "Space" and "Gandalf" are actual band names) - those have at least surfaced here or there, in the press, on illegal MP3 compilations - compared to numerous other musicians ("John St. John" for instance..) who are virtually unknown. All of the bands/musicians I've mentioned make slow, ambient electronic music, which centers on (that is, with album/track names, or album covers, photography, liner notes..) themes like meditation (Anugama, Software), exotic places (G.E.N.E.), dreams, etc. (Especially meditation (and concepts like tantra, mantra, chakra - things from eastern philosophies) is a recurring theme, and I guess this is why a lot of people think that "New Age Music is connected to the New Age movement of beliefs"). And this, well, seems to be the definition of New Age Music. As for artists like Tangerine Dream, Enya, Vangelis, Klaus Schulze,.. - well, firstly, their music is very different from what I've described, even though they all have some pieces that sound like generic electronic soundscapes (sic!). Seconldy, several of them (Tangerine Dream) have repeatedly stated they hate the term "New Age Music" and do not consider their music that. Thirdly, they have armies of devoted fans who protest against all kinds of labels connected with "New Age". So I mean, would it be an acceptable solution to define New Age music by describing it like I did above, or like it is briefly described in the article (''The large percentage of music described as New Age music is instrumental, and electronic''), and to list several artists from Innovative Communications and similar labels (if someone can actually find those - I don't own any meditation CDs, but I believe at least some of them would have information on record labels) as 'new age musicians'. Other artists (Enya, Vangelis..) could be placed on the same page with a notice saying that they're not widely considered "New Age", and that their music can sometimes be very different from the kind of music described in the article. I'm not sure if it is NPOV to connect meditation/relaxation CDs and New Age Music, but (a) 'new age/new instrumental' is what ''at least some '' of those CDs are labeled and (b) there's no specific term for the kind of music on meditation CDs, which is calm, repetitive and electronic - yet the variying definitions of New Age Music agree that it is calm and electronic. I don't want to make any edits to the article at the moment, since I have no idea if the definition I offer is going to be accepted. So, could anyone offer opinions on what I'm suggesting? :) -- User:Jashiin 19:47, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Mike Oldfield == Doesn't classifying Tubular Bells as the first New Age album contradict the definition given in the first place that the beginnings of New Age music were closeley related to the mystical matters of the New Age movement? Oldfield originated from the jazz-related and somewhat humoristic Canterbury Scene. User:84.174.254.240 10:59, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
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