Classical music.

[Byron In Exile]

Well, I like classical music threads, but when I post in them, they tend to die. I don't know why that is, but since I've killed this thread already, I may as well proceed.

I'd have posted earlier, but my entire post was deleted.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I've decided to post in segments, in case it happens again.

 

[Spidergrrrl]

I like a range of classical music. But my current favorite is Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor. Kind of dark and brooding.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Anyway, I was saying that Bach was the pinnacle of Western instrumental music, while Palestrina was the apex of vocal music.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I like a range of classical music. But my current favorite is Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor. Kind of dark and brooding.

Your AV is derailing this discussion...

 

[MWG]

I tend to like Wagner and Tchaikovsky.

But at the moment, I'm listening to Danny Elfman's score to Edward Scissorhands - what I consider "nu-classical".

 

[gravyrug]

I'm a big fan of the turn-of-the century and early 20th century Russians. Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, etc.

Pictures At An Exhibition, Lt. Kije, and the Firebird Suite are always guaranteed to have me grinning from ear to ear in sheer exuberance (and conducting along with the music...).

Avoid the Dallas Symphony Orchestra version of Firebird, however. I can't remember who conducted it, but they just missed the mood entirely. I was just sick when I heard it.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I tend to like Wagner and Tchaikovsky.

But at the moment, I'm listening to Danny Elfman's score to Edward Scissorhands - what I consider "nu-classical".

Okay, imagine a world without electricity.

A weird world without any of the things that we take for granted.

Just rocks and stuff.

Oh, hey, it's 1129 A.D., let's build a fucking cathedral!!

Why not??

 

[gravyrug]

Okay, imagine a world without electricity.

A weird world without any of the things that we take for granted.

Just rocks and stuff.

Oh, hey, it's 1129 A.D., let's build a fucking cathedral!!

Why not??

Hey, Elfman's pretty damn good, actually. Granted, he does mostly film scores, but Prokofiev did several, too.

 

[MWG]

Okay, imagine a world without electricity.

A weird world without any of the things that we take for granted.

Just rocks and stuff.

Oh, hey, it's 1129 A.D., let's build a fucking cathedral!!

Why not??

Um... I'm fairly well versed in music theory, but I tended to zone out during music history.

Please do elaborate.

 

[MWG]

Hey, Elfman's pretty damn good, actually. Granted, he does mostly film scores, but Prokofiev did several, too.

He was ripping on Elfman? Bad form.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Hey, Elfman's pretty damn good, actually. Granted, he does mostly film scores, but Prokofiev did several, too.

Um, I don't know about the "elfman," but when you look at the cathedrals, or the Alhambra, or the Taj Mahal, do you think of some "pop" star?

 

[gravyrug]

Um, I don't know about the "elfman," but when you look at the cathedrals, or the Alhambra, or the Taj Mahal, do you think of some "pop" star?

No, but when I hear Mozart, I don't really think of cathedrals. I think of opera houses, which were the popular music venues of the time. The classical music that's been listed here was mostly composed after all those cathedrals had been built. Granted, some of it was composed to be played in them, but not nearly all, or even most of it.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Um... I'm fairly well versed in music theory, but I tended to zone out during music history.

Please do elaborate.

This would develop into more than a thread could contain. And I doubt that there would be much interest.

Music consisted of only melody at that time.

The concept of "harmony" came later.

 

[gravyrug]

This would develop into more than a thread could contain. And I doubt that there would be much interest.

Music consisted of only melody at that time.

The concept of "harmony" came later.

At least in so far as written music that we've discovered is concerned. I'm willing to bet that there has been harmony for much longer than we have written notation of it.

 

[Byron In Exile]

At least in so far as written music that we've discovered is concerned. I'm willing to bet that there has been harmony for much longer than we have written notation of it.

Yes, the Greeks may have had a sort of harmony (in hexachords).

But in the 12th century, Western music mainly consisted of melody with octaves and fifths added on.

 

[gravyrug]

Yes, the Greeks may have had a sort of harmony (in hexachords).

But in the 12th century, Western music mainly consisted of melody with octaves and fifths added on.

But now we've drifted from classical music (in the general public's notion of classical rather than the technical definition) to ancient music. Mind you, I'm rather fond of the ancient music that I've heard re-created, but it's a bit beyond the scope of the thread.

 

[Byron In Exile]

But now we've drifted from classical music (in the general public's notion of classical rather than the technical definition) to ancient music. Mind you, I'm rather fond of the ancient music that I've heard re-created, but it's a bit beyond the scope of the thread.

Quite true. Either we have hijacked it, or it is dead and we are picking the bones of it.

In any case, I am still lamenting my brilliant post that was deleted. It was way neater than the rest of this stuff I've posted...

 

[gravyrug]

Quite true. Either we have hijacked it, or it is dead and we are picking the bones of it.

In any case, I am still lamenting my brilliant post that was deleted. It was way neater than the rest of this stuff I've posted...

I think everyone else has given up and gone to bed (as I should do pretty soon). Sorry to have missed your brilliant post. If you should ever find it again, be sure and let me know.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I think everyone else has given up and gone to bed (as I should do pretty soon). Sorry to have missed your brilliant post. If you should ever find it again, be sure and let me know.

If you're actually interested, I can just PM you and save everyone the bother...

 

[gravyrug]

If you're actually interested, I can just PM you and save everyone the bother...

That would be just fine, thank you. Good night, and may you sleep well.

 

[Byron In Exile]

That would be just fine, thank you. Good night, and may you sleep well.

Thank you, may you also, & you have a PM...

 

[Guest]

Dammit. Keep posting gravy and Byron. You turned this into an interesting thread - full of ideas and things to look for.


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[eagleyez]

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[J.B.]

I like. Though I do like others. I don’t know enough about the genre to give names and titles and the such. I tend to lean towards Mozart. My sister fell in love with the violin when she first heard, is it called Romance?, at the age of 4.