Poll: Do you like classical music?
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Modern Classical music is quite forgettable. The stuff you hear on the Classical music stations is mostly garbage, mostly repetitive and goes out of your mind instantly. Which is like most music from any genre.
I must say however, that I always prefer Classical over Country or Rap or Hip-Hop. And I almost always prefer instrumental music over songs with lyrics.
I must say however, that I always prefer Classical over Country or Rap or Hip-Hop. And I almost always prefer instrumental music over songs with lyrics.
I am enamored with classical music, especially piano pieces. My favorite composer is Frederyck Chopin. I have been learning his pieces on piano though I am self taught. My favorite piece is Prelude 28 opus 15 (raindrop prelude). I'm also a fan of Strauss (people might remember his music being used in 2001 A Space Odyssey) and schubert (esp the unfinished symphony 8). Hadyn for his nocture pieces, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin for their technical skill. I do like Mozart and Beethoven of course but I'd rather listen to Chopin over them any day. I completely squealed over being able to play as him in Eternal Sonata. I know I know....complete music geek here.^^ haha I'm being a complete fangirl over classical music.
I notice most people here seem fond of the Romantic Era and that's my favourite, too. Beethoven is my absolute favourite closely followed by Chopin. I think there was a far higher ratio of quality to dross in Classical music. My A-level teacher summed it up very well.
For us, we have the cinema, theatre, gigs, CDs, TV, Radio all competing for our attention and we can chop and change according to our tastes and quality on show. With classical music, there was really very little else to entertain the masses. A concerto, a symphony or an opera were the blockbuster movies or the live gigs of their time so to get ANYWHERE a composer had to be of a certain quality. I'm not saying that there wasn't a lot of dross that has been forgotten by most, but these guys were European superstars.
P.S. Also need to shout out to Mozart and Sibelius whom I also love.
For us, we have the cinema, theatre, gigs, CDs, TV, Radio all competing for our attention and we can chop and change according to our tastes and quality on show. With classical music, there was really very little else to entertain the masses. A concerto, a symphony or an opera were the blockbuster movies or the live gigs of their time so to get ANYWHERE a composer had to be of a certain quality. I'm not saying that there wasn't a lot of dross that has been forgotten by most, but these guys were European superstars.
P.S. Also need to shout out to Mozart and Sibelius whom I also love.
Oh wow I LOL'd hard there. Thanks.BonsaiK said:
So, er, stuff like Mendelssohn championing/promiting Bach's music had of course nothing to do with it becoming known again? There's millions of examples of things that people think is "great" now that at the time was considered either garbage or not noteworthy. Schubert for example never got any of his symphonies or actually the majority of his work was never performed during his lifetime. Then there's guys like Zelenka who nobody cared about (but Bach himself admired) until recently when they began unearthing his pieces again. Nevermind that during the 20th century tons and tons of composers were rediscovered and their pieces brought up to concerts again (Rameau, Salieri, etc.)
"Test of time" by art is a fallacy, because opinions on a piece can vary wildly with time and that's all it takes to "kill it." Certainly if Schoenberg had popped up in the 1700s he would've been readily forgotten (but probably later discovered, like Biber) but at the time he did show up he made a major impact and his pieces are considered rather important, likewise the wave of researching/discovering forgotten composers is a 20th century trend that speaks entirely against any kind of "test of time," since people are finding tons of music from rather unknown composers to be awesome all the same. And of course there's the whole other bit with today being much easier to archive compositions than it ever was, and we also have much more access to history than anyone ever had before. It's really easy for anyone today to pick up a book with pieces from X or Y composer, when back before the 20th century it was not nearly as easy to do your own research (even if you were studying at a conservatory,) and in the baroque you practically only knew what was locally close to you.
I love a lot of classical music, but there's a lot of it I don't like too. I guess it's like saying "do you like metal?" There's a lot of it.
I like some of the classical stuff, like mozart and beethoven, but I don't like wagner, and elgar's stuff gets on my nerves.
I like some of the classical stuff, like mozart and beethoven, but I don't like wagner, and elgar's stuff gets on my nerves.
I would dearly like to believe that's not true, as that's a frankly terrifying prospect, but then I remember how stupid today's youth is - and thus the bitter weeping for the future begins.BonsaiK said:
I do however take some small solace in the fact that you are literally the first person I have ever observed saying anything even remotely positive about Brokencyde though; every time I've seen them mentioned here it's as an object of derision, typically as a vivid example of the maxim "it could always be worse" - it could be Brokencyde you're listening to instead of [whatever horrible band was being complained about].
Thanks for that, as you made all the points I would have for me. The fact is very few of the classical "greats" that our modern society loves achieved any sort of renown during their own lives, with most only ever being discovered or appreciated by a wider audience posthumously.Ytmh said:
Yes. I love classical music.
Although I listen to just about anything, for that matter, as long as I like it. Genres don't matter.
Although I listen to just about anything, for that matter, as long as I like it. Genres don't matter.
Yes, I do. Classical music tends to calm me down, as well as confuse anybody searching through my iPod's playlist. In any case, classical and symphonic music offer a lovely contrast to my usual music, and I like that.
I like to play classical music on the piano. I don't listen to it very much, but I do like progressive rockbands that are influenced by classical music.
There's a time and place for it, like most other music (The exceptions being Gangster rap and that godawful wailing that is marketed as countr and/or western... NEVER a time or place for that garbage).
I'm one of those people that can go from listening to Bach and Mozart to Tyr to Cruachan to Dead Can Dance to Metallica to the Final Fantasy VI Soundtrack to Machinae Supremacy BACK to Bach and then to Rehab with a stopover to Frank Zappa without so much as flicking an eyelash.
I'm one of those people that can go from listening to Bach and Mozart to Tyr to Cruachan to Dead Can Dance to Metallica to the Final Fantasy VI Soundtrack to Machinae Supremacy BACK to Bach and then to Rehab with a stopover to Frank Zappa without so much as flicking an eyelash.