I guess the other side would be that the names that stick with periods / movements are the ones that make some kind of sense. Mozart really does sound classical, with virtues that people associate with Neo-classical aesthetics in literature. The renaissance really does make sense to talk about a period of cultural rebirth of a particular kind. It makes sense to see baroque music and architecture as akin to each other, and find a name for that kinship. Reconquest makes sense in terms of later Spanish nationalism, even if Fernando and Isabel saw it as more of a "restauración."
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