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CLASSICAL MUSIC THAT PWNS
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TheDigitalMonk
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CloseWelcome to Classical Music that Pwns, the thread that is determined to show YOU, the person who probably doesn't regularly listen to classical music, why you SHOULD.
=Part1= July 15, 2010
For this part, I'm going to show you one of the modern classics, The Planets by Gustav Holst. This is the piece that John Williams openly and unapologetically drew from when he composed the music for Star Wars. The piece is written in seven movements, one for each of the planets in our solar system excluding Earth.
Here's one of the most popular ones, Mars:
Give it a listen, it won't kill you. Probably.
=Part2= July 22, 2010
If I had to describe this piece in one word, it would be... EPIC. With this one, you HAVE to listen to it all the way to the end. The last minute or so is one of the best endings ever written for anything. Fantasia did a little cartoon to go along with it and it works quite nicely. The piece was originally written as a ballet, but it's more famous for the condensed version: The Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky.
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=Part1= July 15, 2010
For this part, I'm going to show you one of the modern classics, The Planets by Gustav Holst. This is the piece that John Williams openly and unapologetically drew from when he composed the music for Star Wars. The piece is written in seven movements, one for each of the planets in our solar system excluding Earth.
Here's one of the most popular ones, Mars:
Give it a listen, it won't kill you. Probably.
=Part2= July 22, 2010
If I had to describe this piece in one word, it would be... EPIC. With this one, you HAVE to listen to it all the way to the end. The last minute or so is one of the best endings ever written for anything. Fantasia did a little cartoon to go along with it and it works quite nicely. The piece was originally written as a ballet, but it's more famous for the condensed version: The Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky.
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catmitts
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Seconding Shostakovich but especially the 8th String Quartet because aaa
also this will almost definitely kill you but it rules
also this will almost definitely kill you but it rules
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Domenico Scarlatti may not be the best known composer in his family let alone his era but damn if his keyboard sonatas don't hit the spot
also beaten to vivaldi :[ but listen to this it is very awesome
also beaten to vivaldi :[ but listen to this it is very awesome
This piece is pretty wicked and quite recent (1988) considering it was written by a 17 year old at the time. and yes, well tempered caliver certainly does pwns.
S. F. LaValle
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Wow, these have been some fantastic and enlightening submissions. I'm going to be looking for this music. Gustav Holst in particular, I had no idea that he pioneered the space opera the way he did.
Here's my entry:
And, how could I forget my favorite piano piece of all time:
Here's my entry:
And, how could I forget my favorite piano piece of all time:
in fact, pretty much everything from lohengrin is excellent.
and let's hear it for the most legendary and beautiful violin solo ever!
Erik Satie's my classical hero. A BIT (hah) different from epic orchestra-types but awesome nonetheless.
catmitts
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I have a sort of pointless question. What defines a song as "classic"? *sorry for the noobness*
iirc it's kind of a meaningless term and a lot of music people prefer describing it as just "orchestral" or whatever but i think it's just a general term for stuff which comes from a certain tradition of mostly european art musics which includes ideas about tone and instrumentation or whatever. i remember reading once that the term classical was tacked on to differentiate it from popular music and give it a bit of added artistic clout to lord over the proles but don't quote me on that
balakirev is pretty obscure but i like him
this one is a classic ha ha get it
this is if you like simpler romantic stuff
post=148613
iirc it's kind of a meaningless term and a lot of music people prefer describing it as just "orchestral" or whatever but i think it's just a general term for stuff which comes from a certain tradition of mostly european art musics which includes ideas about tone and instrumentation or whatever. i remember reading once that the term classical was tacked on to differentiate it from popular music and give it a bit of added artistic clout to lord over the proles but don't quote me on that
this is almost right, it's become this generic catch-all term from originally being a particular period of music of the 18th and 19th centuries; the reason it's developed as a catch-all is because it was a retrospective term to rationalise that period as a golden age (talk about opening a can of worms!)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=IliwQImJrYE&videos=B9FJGFbfel8[/youtube]
I know that classical music is more than just the instruments you use, but I still think this is great
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So this is marked as invalid, but it is real! Copy and paste.
TheDigitalMonk
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I have a sort of pointless question. What defines a song as "classic"? *sorry for the noobness*
Well, you could interpret it 3 different ways. Firstly the "Classical Period" of music which centers around composers like Mozart, occurred from around 1700-1800. Now obviously, there's a lot more classical music than what was written in that hundred year span.
1600-1700: Baroque (Think Bach) Very mechanical and usually stoic.
1700-1800: Classical (Think Mozart) More emotional, but still 'plays it safe'
1800-1900: Romantic (Think Tchaikovsky) Much more openly emotional, not afraid to 'color out of the lines'
1900+: 20th Century (Think Stravinsky) Not afraid of dissonances and cacophony, often very wild and epic (both my examples from the top fall under this category). This category is most similar to what you'd hear in film scores.
1970ish+: Contemporary: Very very very dissonant and experimental... Often flat out difficult and uncomfortable to listen to.
So ALL of that counts as 'classical music' even though there was only a short "classical period."
It's probably the broadest genre of music out there believe it or not.
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