What do you think of classical?
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Except that isn't the origin of the word. They were basically saying that foreigners all sounded the same saying "bar bar bar." Greeks wouldn't have had a word with such an ugly connotation for a word that means someone with a beard; they had beards and mercilessly taunt politicians who don't have beards.JRiseley said:I'm gonna get yelled at for kind of being irrelevant, but a barbarian is simply a person with a beard - 'barba' = beard.Mimssy said:Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of Rome, but they [Carthage] were not Greek (which by ancient Greek standards) makes them βάρβαρους.Serenegoose said:THEY ARE NOT BARBARIANS!!!!Mimssy said:*cries* Everyone insults Carthage. If only Hannibal was still around. He'd show them...
That and my word was Greek, not Latin. The origins for the ancient Greek and Latin could easily be different. It's barbarus for Latin? I don't really know Latin, but I can speak ancient Greek.JRiseley said:Ah, thanks. I suppose I shouldn't take my Latin professor at her word for derivations. She's a bit biased, I suppose.Mimssy said:Except that isn't the origin of the word. They were basically saying that foreigners all sounded the same saying "bar bar bar." Greeks wouldn't have had a word with such an ugly connotation for a word that means someone with a beard; they had beards and mercilessly taunt politicians who don't have beards.JRiseley said:I'm gonna get yelled at for kind of being irrelevant, but a barbarian is simply a person with a beard - 'barba' = beard.Mimssy said:Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of Rome, but they [Carthage] were not Greek (which by ancient Greek standards) makes them βάρβαρους.Serenegoose said:THEY ARE NOT BARBARIANS!!!!Mimssy said:
I love classical music and I like heavy metal. My favorite composers are Chopin, Bach, and Liszt.
give me a good war symphony any day. i absolutely love classical; the lack of screamy emos allows me to actually concentrate on the music, notice all the different sounds, subtle shifts in tone....there are a hundered different ways i could describe this if i knew the slightest bit about composing music, but suffice to say its the only music im able to really 'listen' to, not just put in the car as background noise, if that makes any sense.
How could somebody not like certain classical pieces, like Beethoven's 9th Symphony or Pachelbel's Canon D?
Music like that rages through your soul like stormy sea.
Music like that rages through your soul like stormy sea.
I'm always curious when people describe it as "calm" and "relaxing".
O Fortuna (Orff)
Mars, Bringer of War (Holst)
Agnus Dei (Barber)
Dance of the Furies (Gluck)
Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner)
Confutatis Maledictis (Mozart)
Confutatis maledictis
Flammis acribus addictis,
Voca me cum benedictus.
Oro supplex et acclinis,
Cor contritum quasi cinis,
Gere curam mei finis.
When the damned are confounded
and consigned to keen flames,
count me with the blessed.
I pray, suppliant and kneeling,
a heart as contrite as ashes;
take thou my ending into thy care.
O Fortuna (Orff)
Mars, Bringer of War (Holst)
Agnus Dei (Barber)
Dance of the Furies (Gluck)
Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner)
Confutatis Maledictis (Mozart)
Confutatis maledictis
Flammis acribus addictis,
Voca me cum benedictus.
Oro supplex et acclinis,
Cor contritum quasi cinis,
Gere curam mei finis.
When the damned are confounded
and consigned to keen flames,
count me with the blessed.
I pray, suppliant and kneeling,
a heart as contrite as ashes;
take thou my ending into thy care.