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Classical music

What do you think about classical music?

  • It's fine

    Votes: 15 50.0%
  • It's OK

    Votes: 6 20.0%
  • It will do

    Votes: 3 10.0%
  • It's obsolete

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • It sucks

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • It's snobbish

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • It's top shelf

    Votes: 11 36.7%
  • I don't care

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • I don't know

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Other

    Votes: 4 13.3%

  • Total voters
    30
If you are doing game soundtracks, you can't forget movie soundtracks, and few are better than Ennio Morricone's score for The Mission.

 
you can't forget movie soundtracks...

I didn't, please see above the Star Wars theme. ;)
There are lots of good composers of classical soundtracks - John Williams, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri and so on. How about that?

It's one of my top 3. :)
 
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To each their own. :shrug: By the way, I love your comment, I found it quite funny :)

I think if anyone hates a genre of music they never took an opportunity to actually explore it.
 
Ehhh... there are some genres out there, man....

I could agree if we were talking about genres as in "post-pop neo-industrial folkcore" but classical is pretty broad, like electronic and country
 
Classical music covers a very broad range of music, some good, some bad. If I never hear Beethoven again it will be too soon, but I can always listen to Stockhausen or Glass.

Of course, all music is a matter of personal taste, and similarly, if I never hear Glass or Stockhausen again it will be too soon, but I must say that Schoenberg's Transfigured Night is quite beautiful in parts. I must admit that I am not a devotee of modern serious music, many of the composers of which appear more interested in being clever than musical.

However, the late Romantics, like Mahler, were both clever and musical. Who could fail to be excited by the finale from his 2nd symphony (The Resurrection)?

Or fail to be transported by the Adagietto from his 5th Symphony?

PS: Can someone tell me how to get the YouTube videos to show as a video, not just an URL, in a post?
 
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PS: Can someone tell me how to get the YouTube videos to show as a video, not just an URL, in a post?

When you hit the reply button, up the top of the reply box there's a row of buttons, second from the right is the insert video button, hit that, paste the URL into the box that pops up, and away you go.
 
PS: Can someone tell me how to get the YouTube videos to show as a video, not just an URL, in a post?

You click the "Insert Video" icon (before "Quote", the last icon) but sometimes it shows and sometimes it says that you have to go to YouTube to watch it. :)
 
When you hit the reply button, up the top of the reply box there's a row of buttons, second from the right is the insert video button, hit that, paste the URL into the box that pops up, and away you go.

Thanks, I thought that's what I did - I'll try again with the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Probably the most archetypical piece of chromatic music in existence. :)



Great - thanks again! :2wave:
 
I could agree if we were talking about genres as in "post-pop neo-industrial folkcore" but classical is pretty broad, like electronic and country

I've heard some music that may almost fit that genre... marylin manson has a few songs like that, but they're actually half decent.
 
I don't listen to it all that often, but I love classical music. There's some beautiful stuff out there. Vivaldi is a particular favorite of mine, since I grew up playing the violin.
 
I think if anyone hates a genre of music they never took an opportunity to actually explore it.

I didn't say I hated it, only that I tended to find it annoying, unless its coupled with something to bring about the mood it was trying to invoke, such as a movie. Generally when I listen to music, I want it to invoke something, so far classical music has failed to do it because there is no base beat to get the part of me that is always thinking, designing, and creating to shut up long enough for my emotions to roam freely.
 
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I didn't say I hated it, only that I tended to find it annoying, unless its coupled with something to bring about the mood it was trying to invoke, such as a movie. Generally when I listen to music, I want it to invoke something, so far classical music has failed to do it because there is no base beat to get the part of me that is always thinking, designing, and creating to shut up long enough for my emotions to roam freely.


That wasn't really in reference to anyone in particular
 
I like Classical music, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it. Either that or I have to be studying. By far in a way my favorite is Moonlight Sonata.
 
Classical music was the pop/rock/punk of their time. Most of the composers were considered radicals...rebels. Our understanding of the music today is too often limited by what we hear on NPR and college stations. There is some badass classical music out there. Im a huge fan of the now defunct East Village Opera Company. Olde School with a new twist.
 
Classical music was the pop/rock/punk of their time. Most of the composers were considered radicals...rebels. Our understanding of the music today is too often limited by what we hear on NPR and college stations. There is some badass classical music out there. Im a huge fan of the now defunct East Village Opera Company. Olde School with a new twist.

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Complaining about listening to NPR and hearing crap, now that's funny.

True. There are a lot of crap shows on NPR like the tavis smiley show, anything to do with music, and stuff like fresh air. The news is good though.
 
Only thing I don't dig on our station is the blugrass. Which is usually on the second HD channel and comes up on the weekends on the main channel. We have WETA for 24/7 classical and I feel they know what they're doing.
 
There is only one kind of Great Music, the Classic Music!

 
Usually when that crap is on NPR, my opinion is usually "where did I put my ipod? I want to listen to something I like."

You wouldn't have the music you have today without classical music and jazz and blues as well.
 
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