Classical Music

[Maquissar]

/Ranting mode ON/ Ok, I am sure you wouldn't expect this poll from a 22 year old rock guitar player, but I happen to like classical as well as more modern kinds of music. I am by no means an expert in the field, but I think that if one doesn't let the fact that it is an "old" genre bother him, it can be a very rewarding experience. While modern music is more immediately enjoyable, I find that classical music conveys emotions better. And it is also interesting to see how it has influenced modern genres, e.g. J.S. Bach's influence over metal bands. What do you think?

/Ranting mode OFF/

[Eiade]

Classical music fascinates me. I think it's cause I grew up with my dad who is a avid fan of classical. My dad is always playing classical music around the house, and I like it. It's soothing.

 

I LOVE CHOPIN. Classical piano is my favorite type of classical

 

Not too much of a fan of Mozart. Even though he was one of the greatest composers of all time, all of his stuff sounds the same!

 

Classical music is dying, though. In the 1700's it was the mainstream music! But now it just seems to be for older people, and us wierd guys.

 

 

Maquissar: explain Bach's influence over modern bands??

[Maquissar]

From an online encyclopaedia, on neo-classical metal:

 

Neo-classical metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music.

The form is heavily influenced by baroque music. The progressions, arpeggios, broken chords, and speedy scale runs of neo-classical metal are borrowed for the most part from Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Niccolò Paganini. Although Yngwie J. Malmsteen is the most well-known proponent of this branch of metal, classical elements used in heavy metal and hard rock date back to Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Eddie Van Halen's innovations in the late 1970s.

 

I love Chopin too, although I only know his nocturnes. My favourite is the Nocturne n.2. If you like piano, make sure not to miss Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, it's one of my favourites.

And I don't think all of Mozart's stuff sounds the same... have you listened, by any chance, to his Requiem Mass, and most of all to the Lacrimosa part?

[Switch]

I haven't listened to much Classical in my time but what I have heard I can't stand. :P It's not that it's old, it just doesn't do anything for me.

 

I know it sounds wierd, but for me a lot of the Final Fantasy soundtracks are very good at conveying emotion. No I'm not an FF nerd, I just like em :P apart from that probably more modern stuff.

[Maquissar]

Final Fantasy's music can, all in all, be considered classical music, although it is not canonical. Nobuo Uematsu is a good composer. His "One Winged Angel", although it wasn't on the same level as Wagner, was nonetheless good! :)

[Malchik]

You know there has always been popular music, it's not a phenomenon of the twentieth century. But as Classical music has changed through the centuries, so has popular music. If you play such music of the fifteenth/sixteenth centuries today it is liable to sound 'classical' or at least ethnic.

 

The London Proms season started on Friday and a glance at the audience shows that the interest in Classical music is not an age related thing. However it may not be 'cool' to admit to liking it when you are still at school, I don't know.

 

Classical music (unless you are using the term formally to refer to music of the classical period, late 18th early 19th centuries) has so many genres that it would be very unlkely that anyone disliked all of it.

 

Pace Switch, but film scores are classified in the Gramophone catalogue as classical.

 

I am a fanatic of most forms of classical music (I find it hard to listen to solo organ music for long though I don't dislike it as such) and indeed most music. I have many film scores from Gone with the Wind, Scott of the Antarctic, LOTR, Psycho, Taxi Driver etc. etc.

 

If anyone likes particular pieces and wants to know if there is anything similar, feel free to PM me.

[seregmegil]

I alwais liked to listen to classical but I've never got the time nor a person who guides me throught this enourmous world.

 

Now I'm starting to listen to some cd I've found in my home :P but I can't say songs or authors. I love "Bolero" from Ravel, I've heard it in an old anime named (translating from spanish, may it have another name in english) Heros of the galaxy. The anime haves an sceno of 15 mins with the only sound of the Bolero ^^. It's amazing.

 

About the metal influence, you can listen to Therion or Haggard or Apocaliptyca, they use classical instruments in their music. Therion have gone to Wacken Open Air (The biggest Metal contest in europe IIRC) with a whole classical band ^^. Haggard are 15 people in the gropu and Apocaliptyca are 4 people with only cellos (with a drummer to support some things they can't do with the cello :P).

[Brighid]

I love Bach and Baroque music, probably because that is what my violin teacher specialized in, so that is what I was most exposed to, but I can't play it.

 

My most favorite stuff to play is gypsy, russian, or jewish traditional music. I really enjoy the slow, mournful sounds, and I like playing in minor keys.

 

Traditional celtic fiddle is lots of fun to dance to. I have trouble listening to celtic music without dancing.

 

I also love the modern trend of playing period pieces on period instuments.

[Slaiv]

Pachabel's Canon. Best. Song. Ever.

 

I couldn't live without classical. Even though I love [70's-90's] alternative rock, industrial, techno, etc...

 

What're really nice are techno mixes of classical songs. That being said, it has to be the right DJ, and more classical than techno.

[Eiade]

Barber's Adagio for Strings. The best entirely string piece (called chamber music i guess?) i have ever heard. The Pachabel Canon is a little overdone in my opinion...

 

Some techno i can't stand. I don't know the term for it (maybe called 'trance'?), but the kind of techno that is played at raves is horrible. Repititious as heck. Too much bass (BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM). Oh my god. Other techno i can take. For instance this site here, is a site of remixes of video game songs. Most techno on there is good.

 

But I digress. Maquissar: Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu in Db minor (op. 66, no 12 i think) is the piece that gave me my love of chopin. also try 'revolutionary etude' and 'black keys study'.

 

EDIT: Got rid of the bit about Kazaa. As Slaiv says, it's against the ToS :P