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Started 1 year ago by hamcheese362
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hamcheese362
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As you all may or may not know,yesterday was Dizzy Gilepsie's birthday. Even though i haven't really heard any of his tracks, i enjoy classical music. Pieces such as "chameleon" ( i enjoyed Maynard Ferguson's recording the most, as opposed to the original by Herbie Hancock), and others, but I mostly enjoy Maynard's work. So even though we already have a music thread, I wanted to open this one for talking about Classical music only. How classical music compares to the crap (and occasional nice song) that we hear today. Hopefully the mods won't mind.

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Posted 1 year ago #
hamcheese362
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I guess you're right. I was going to post some examples but I had no time. Look up birdland, conquistador, chameleon by maynard ferguson, and manteca by dizzie gillespie. You'll get an idea of what im talking about.

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Well, what I like listening to most probably wouldn't be considered classical, closer to the "epic" genre, but I do like listening to orchestral. That being said, I like classical if it's exciting enough (or if I actually want something calming).

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Mushyrulez
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Classical... iunno. Beethoven's final and his c-minor compositions are probably the best from that era, though Schubert's sonatas are pretty good too, and Mozart's quartets.

The thing is, I'm highly biased towards piano music, as generally speaking, I don't listen to much outside of what I play.

If you want to broaden the range, Haydn's London symphonies were my favourites from the Baroque era (because Bach doesn't sound dramatic enough ). From Romantic would definitely be Chopin's Ballade in F minor, the Grand Valse Brilliante, and his nocturnes (especially the c minor one; iunno what's with me and c minor :V).

Modern would probably be Prokofiev, simply because it actually seems to have some sort of form rather than random mixing of notes. Sure, it's dissonant and sounds 'weird' (cough cough Petrushka) but he obviously thought of his compositions much more than some of these modern 'musicians' do :V

Anyways, generally pieces composed outside of the Classical era would be neo-classical instead of classical, so Hancock's not really... I think he's actually jazz, which isn't really a musical era, but anywho...

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hamcheese362
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Wow... Dunno half the things you just said mushy, but now I have somethimg to look up I learn a lot of stuff in this forum. Anywho, I played a piece of a little bight music once, but then I looked up the actual song and compared to what I was playing and they sounded nuthing alike...

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Mushyrulez
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Bight music? :V

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Posted 1 year ago #
hamcheese362
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My bad, night music

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Posted 1 year ago #
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i like beethoven, bach and mozart. by like, i mean i listen to 'em.

Posted 1 year ago #
VesicalThanatos
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I too like Beethove, Bach, and Mozart, as I have heard of them

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Posted 1 year ago #
Mushyrulez
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IMO Bach's too... too convoluted and... artificial. His pieces are almost always polyphonic fugues/sinfonias; even his Italian Concerto is really an extended exercise in polyphony.

Add how he composed his schtuff on a harpsichord and you get this really structured sound. I don't like it at all; I can't add pedal to it, because that completely ruins the tone - however, my whole piano life is just about pedal!

Also, his endings (particularly of his 48 p&fs) are so... sudden. You get two chords and that's it. It's ended. With, say, Beethoven, you get this dramatic overextended coda with god-knows-how-many ending chords, but with Bach, two chords and it's done. Compared to the length of some of his pieces, it's just not... right.

Then with Mozart, his primary compositions were mainly with strings; you don't see many of his piano sonatas out there, do you? What I dislike about that is its inability to create large amounts of notes (contradicting myself about Bach here :V), and when you do have enough instruments to create large amounts of notes (like in Eine Kleine Nachtmusik), it becomes impossible to coordinate! Sound-wise, it's brilliant, but otherwise...

Finally, Beethoven is just pure awesomeness.

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