Originally Posted by Ned

I'm sorry, but a single thread devoted to the entire field is utterly absurd. Consider the time frame alone: (Western European) classical music spans two millennia, whereas as rock and roll--the various SUBDIVISIONS of which get their own FORUMS here--has existed for a mere five decades (a moot point for PianoDan, of course, whose interest in classical music seems entirely absorbed by the middle five decades of the nineteenth-century).