Help Me With This Music Vocabulary Problem

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

2009 original post: I was recollecting my music history class from a couple years ago and remembered the professor telling us that folk and traditional music are basically songs without a known composer and that _______ music is basically any musical piece with a known author or composer.

I've skimmed google and wikipedia but have not found anything

2014 edit: I think it really might have been "commercial music."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music

It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles.

Credit to Element_Man who already guessed it five years ago

 

[tr00nty]

Anonymous?

 

[Element_man]

The only word I could think of would be "commercial" music, because folk/traditional music was passed down as an oral tradition. I'm pretty sure there's a better term for it, though.

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

Anonymous?

That's pretty much the opposite of the word that I'm looking for

The only word I could think of would be "commercial" music, because folk/traditional music was passed down as an oral tradition. I'm pretty sure there's a better term for it, though.

I've considered this and popular music, but neither were what I was looking for

 

[Dak]

cultural?

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

cultural?

That refers more to a regional style of music and really has nothing to do with who wrote it

I appreciate all the suggestions though, keep them coming please

 

[The Ozzman]

Contemporary?

 

[Einherjar86]

I was recollecting my music history class from a couple years ago and remembered the professor telling us that folk and traditional music are basically songs without a known composer and that _______ music is basically any musical piece with a known author or composer.

I've skimmed google and wikipedia but have not found anything

Anonymous?

Wow.

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

Contemporary?

This means it was written recently, such as within the past century or so.

 

[Einherjar86]

Copyrighted?

 

[waif]

Wow.

Wow.

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

Copyrighted?

Haha, I hadn't thought of this, but that is a good answer

 

[naboo]

EDIT... haha oops nevermind.

 

[MasterOLightning]

...

 

[viewerfromnihil]

I was recollecting my music history class from a couple years ago and remembered the professor telling us that folk and traditional music are basically songs without a known composer and that _______ music is basically any musical piece with a known author or composer.

I've skimmed google and wikipedia but have not found anything

maybe it's "composed"

it makes more sense than any of the other answers on this page

 

[Element_man]

maybe it's "composed"

it makes more sense than any of the other answers on this page

No it doesn't. All songs are composed.

 

[mutantllama]

Anonymous?

This isn't /mu/

 

[AchrisK]

mainstream?

conventional?

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

conventional?

This one sounds the most familiar so far, but I'm having difficulty finding a source to support it

 

[waif]

All songs are composed.

Apparently you haven't heard Postmortem.