Poll: Do you like classical music?

[tweedpol]

Well, For the purpose of the thread I'm using wikipedias definition of classical music:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music

Also did you mean something like this?

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I agree with you, in terminology as well as, yes, i don't like that kind of music. Unless you do, in which case i don't agree with you. It's nice as an atmospheric film score type thing, worthless as a piece of music. Ugh.
love the way he starts trying to rip off also sprach zarathustra at about 3 minutes, another less horrible piece, or that's what it sounded a bit like to me.

 

[Queen Michael]

Yes, it's great. Nobody else in my family does, though. My family's probably the only one where the teenager is told to turn off his classical music and put on some nice rock music instead.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Yes I do, I often listen to classical. Mostly when I'm in a foul mood. It helps.

 

[Turbulenssi]

I rarely listen to classical music but I do enjoy it a lot.

 

[MetalheadParkey]

I love to Relax To a bit of Bach

 

[NeutralDrow]

That I do. Inherited a lot of that liking from my father, though it's certainly helped that a number of my favorite game composers can work wonders with symphonic composition.

Not particularly, I find Baroque and especially Romanticism and beyond works much more enjoyable.

Admittedly, the only genuine Classical era music I can think of belonged to Mozart (and random assorted chamber music), but I tend to prefer Impressionist or Modern, myself. Mozart is good, and Copland is great, but give me a late 19th/early 20th Russian composer over them any day. Especially Stravinsky or Mussorgsky.

 

[TRR]

I like classical, NEO-classical that is, ha ha. No I don't listen to classical music, but you tell me this isn't essentially the same thing but with guitars.

Speed Metal Symphony by Cacophony
There are more and possibly better examples that I listen to but this is just one I particularly like

 

[L-J-F]

Wow, didn't expect that.

 

[theminiarkana]

I love classical music, especially piano pieces or violin pieces. I had to listen to a lot of it when doing my violin lessons years ago.

My love for the genre of music, however, has pretty much gone to the more rock or metal versions of classical songs (such as the one above). I find it interesting to hear one piece of music played on several instruments, because the version will sound completely different each time - given the range of notes.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

Yes, I like classical music, I'm seven eights metalhead and one eight..err..classicalhead.

 

[Feriluce]

I agree with you, in terminology as well as, yes, i don't like that kind of music. Unless you do, in which case i don't agree with you. It's nice as an atmospheric film score type thing, worthless as a piece of music. Ugh.
love the way he starts trying to rip off also sprach zarathustra at about 3 minutes, another less horrible piece, or that's what it sounded a bit like to me.

I have a pretty strong physical reaction to extreme disharmony for some reason. That piece just makes me cringe.

 

[theminiarkana]

Yes, I like classical music, I'm seven eights metalhead and one eight..err..classicalhead.

I second that. Metal style classical songs are ones I can really listen to over and over.

 

[BonsaiK]

Classical music is my first and greatest love in the realm of musical expression, particularly the work of composers from the Romantic period. I'm also a classically trained pianist.

I'm wondering how many of you escapists like classical music.

Myself? I like a lot of modern music, but in my eyes classical music is just so much more sophisticated. You can convey so many emotions through the music that are not even remotely present in rhianna hit #153.
I guess I'm a bit biased though as I grew up playing the violin from I was 4, and singing in a known boys choir for some years as well.

I grew up with classical music as well, having learnt it from an equally young age, and studied it up to postgraduate level. That's probably why I hate it now. Once you understand how it works, you start to realise that it's certainly not inherently superior to pop music, or any music. It has its forms, rules and procedures, just like Rhianna does. Each to their own though - I can see why other people like it, but I'd rather be listening to something I can relate to, that's less divorced from the cultural context of my life, like, um... Brokencyde...

I've always been on the border in my interpretation of your posts in music threads. On the one hand, you're a self-professed "industry insider", and you do make some good points on the business aspects of things from time to time.

On the other and far more important hand, you're generally popping in to act as a "pop apologist", and that puts us at odds ideologically, as I find the vast bulk of popular music to be inherently worthless crap.

But with this post, you just told me you hate classical, compared the work of musical geniuses to purveyor of banality Rihanna (why?!!) and suggested you would actually voluntarily listen to Brokencyde. That pretty much shatters any chance there might have been of me taking any position you espouse on music seriously. Good to know!

Well, the vast majority of classical music is inherently worthless crap. It's just that with the passage of time, the "worthless crap" stuff has vanished (because no-one could be bothered reprinting the scores of a bunch of music nobody cares about) and now only the good stuff that stood the test of time is left, hence the illusion is created that classical music is somehow "better" than popular music.

It's funny, because it's my appreciation for the internal machinations of the industry itself in both a music and lifestyle sense that allow me to appreciate something like Brokencyde on a level that I don't think a lot of people would really grasp, nor would I expect them to. Without wanting to go into too much incriminating detail, those guys are riding the cutting edge of youth culture in a way which is just a little too prophetic for comfort, it's lke NWA all over again. Everyone thought they were a flash in the pan, and look at the influence they've had. The best boardroom committee in the world couldn't have come up with something like Brokencyde.

 

[linwolf]

A lot of classical music are among my favourites.

 

[Thaius]

Not really classical music, but I do have an intense love for instrumental music in general. I just prefer soundtrack to classical music, as soundtracks have memories and emotions attached to them. I'm okay with classical music, but it doesn't hold as much meaning for me as music form my favorite movie or game.

 

[Sampsa]

Classical music is awesome and also harder to play than todays pop, rock and heavy. RAdeztky March is especially awesome.

 

[Rblade]

raised with a lot of classical music playing in the house. Lots of mozart and a fair share of verdi. I probably can't name them but I recognise alot when I hear it.

Sometimes put up classic music when I need to concentrate and shut out the outside world.

 

[Nazulu]

Hellz Yes! I loves me some classical music. Tchaikovsky kicks ass and I think the only song/symphony everyone has heard before is Beethovens 9th Choral Symphony "Ode to Joy".

It's definitely the most complex music as well the most emotionaly powerful, well to me anyway, those violin riffs just go straight through you.

 

[rosemystica]

I love classical music!

 

[skittlepie345]

Not particularly, I find Baroque and especially Romanticism and beyond works much more enjoyable.

well that is classical music though.

No, but I understand why you'd say that. Baroque came before Classical and Romantic in the 1600's. It didn't feature the piano, they used the Harpsichord which couldn't change dynamics. Classical came after Baroque in the Early 1700's and it introduced the Piano, and other stuff but I didn't really pay attention to my Music Teacher so... Romantic came after classical in the early 1800's and it focused on a more intense form of expression where a story and imagination was present. Prokofiev's Peter and The Wolf is a good example of Romantic era music.