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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 12:20 AM
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Which decade was better for music? The 1420's or the 1980'?
Edited on Thu Feb-23-06 12:21 AM by Crazy Guggenheim
Synthesizers are great but there's nothing like a mandolin.

What do you think?

:popcorn:
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 12:33 AM
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1. 1420s: I can rock out to some Guillaume Dufay, dude!
And Johannes Ockeghem's polyphonic structures? My fave to make out to...!
:P
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 12:35 AM
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2. I gotta go with the 1420's.
You can't beat sackbutts and krumhorns.

:popcorn:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 12:39 AM
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3. The 1420's were blessedly Air Supply free.
:woohoo:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 12:43 AM
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4. 1420s...John Dunstable
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 12:43 AM
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5. C'mon! You call this a fair contest??
Gotta go with the pre-Renaissance, every time. :D
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 02:06 AM
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6. The point at which I realized I could answer this question intelligently
was the point I realized I needed to just pass it by. :)
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