Anybody here like classical music?

[Phallic]

Anybody here?

[sithgoblin]

Yep

[SouLeSS]

Like....18th century piano pieces?

I'm a music major (piano) so...yeah =/.

[Manic]

I appreciate a little Bach from time to time. Although I suppose that's more baroque than classical.

[ComicChick]

i have air on the g string as my caller tune

by bach if i'm not mistaken.

don't know if you'll consider this classical, but i do:
my all-time fave piece is Tara's Theme from Gone With the Wind.
it gives me chills

[Manic]

i have air on the g string as my caller tune

by bach if i'm not mistaken.
You are correct, and I love that song. Pure masterpiece. There's a version performed by Sarah Chang that's simply--

Okay, I'm going to stop right there, before this becomes the most pretentious post to ever hit the Hype!

[Banquet]

I would love to hear a ramble about classical music from a guy with that signature, Manic. Haha

[sithgoblin]

i have air on the g string as my caller tune

by bach if i'm not mistaken.

don't know if you'll consider this classical, but i do:
my all-time fave piece is Tara's Theme from Gone With the Wind.
it gives me chills

That is a great piece. It was actually my love of film scores that lead me to classical music. :up:

[Phallic]

Like....18th century piano pieces?

I'm a music major (piano) so...yeah =/.

Wow, I'm actually entering college as a piano music major next year.

[Colossal Spoons]

I used to play classical music while studying for finals back in college. My 2 roomates liked it too. We wrote in to the lady who hosted the classical music radio show and told her we loved her and she gave us a shout out one night. She was like 98 years old :D

[The Joker]

I like Beethoven and Tchovsky. And a little Bach and Wagner.

[JokerJr.]

i listen to Beethoven, Mozart, and Wolfgang occasionally

[Majik1387]

Mozart's my fave.

[The Joker]

I also sort of like Mozart.

[NoName86]

:up: Classical and Film Scores all the way.

[NoName86]

So what would you guys consider the best piece you've ever heard?

I'd without a doubt have to go with the first composition that literally swept me into classical...Mozart's entire Requiem Mass, my god. Particularly Lacrimosa , Dies irae and Confutatis. The Requiem Mass is what all music should aspire to be like.

[Banquet]

Brahms is the sith lord of classical. I like Mahler, too.

[Banquet]

So what would you guys consider the best piece you've ever heard?

I'd without a doubt have to go with the first composition that literally swept me into classical...Mozart's entire Requiem Mass, my god. Particularly Lacrimosa , Dies irae and Confutatis. The Requiem Mass is what all music should aspire to be like.

It's not really classical but opera. The aria in the third act of madame butterfly literally brought me to tears, and for that I have to say it is the best piece in my experience.

[NoName86]

It's not really classical but opera. The aria in the third act of madame butterfly literally brought me to tears, and for that I have to say it is the best piece in my experience.

I've never heard it. (goes to youtube it)

[NoName86]

It sounds great, but I gotta be in the mood for opera.

[Liquid Snake]

I got a 4 cd pack of best piano pieces ever.
I love Franz liszt, Franz Schubert (I love Ave maria? and piano trio in E flat (used in Barry Lyndon).
Chopin's Ballad in G minor is one of my favorite ever. Anything by chopin really.

Would you guys recommend something?

[NoName86]

Hmm, how about his prelude in E-minor op 28 no 4?

One of my all time favorite piano pieces, though as someone who likes Chopin you've probably heard it already.

[NoName86]

I got a 4 cd pack of best piano pieces ever.
I love Franz liszt, Franz Schubert (I love Ave maria? and piano trio in E flat (used in Barry Lyndon).
Chopin's Ballad in G minor is one of my favorite ever. Anything by chopin really.

Would you guys recommend something?Oh yea, and I'd also recommend O Fortuna...it's been used to death on commercials and stuff but it is still good.

[The Joker]

I think either the Moonlight Sonata or the Ode To Joy is my favorite piece.

[Liquid Snake]

Hmm, how about his prelude in E-minor op 28 no 4?

One of my all time favorite piano pieces, though as someone who likes Chopin you've probably heard it already.


The one thing I have to get used to is remmebering th names, lol. It's really hard, I usually love a piece and don't remember its key or whatever.

[JokerJr.]

i also like the music from A Clockwork Orange espicially La Gazza Ladra, for those of you who have seen the movie its where Alex fights his droogs

[NoName86]

The one thing I have to get used to is remmebering th names, lol. It's really hard, I usually love a piece and don't remember its key or whatever.I hardly ever do either lol, but that piece is one of my favorites so I remember it pretty clearly, I even knew how to play it for like 2 days until I moved onto something else and completely forgot everything.

[Liquid Snake]

i also like the music from A Clockwork Orange espicially La Gazza Ladra, for those of you who have seen the movie its where Alex fights his droogs

The thieving magpie?
I like almost all the music used by kubrick.
Barry lyndon has an amazing soundtrack
2001 with ligeti, kuchatarian, strauss.
A clockwork orange beethoven, rossini, elgar
The shining ligeti
Eyes wide shut ? the russian composer.

[Liquid Snake]

This is a great one by schumann.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDy3CIZVjSw&feature=related

[JokerJr.]

eh, didnt really like it, i go for energetic stuff, thats like all mushy gushy, just not my style

[sithgoblin]

My top picks would be Beethoven's Sixth, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Saint-Saens's Danse Macabre and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances. I love a whole bunch more but right now those would be my favourites.

[ActuallyRobin]

I'm partial to Chopin myself and like a good Opera chorus

[Odin's Lapdog]

Vivaldi's gloria and also mozart's requiem

[jaguarr]

Does no one use Search on this site? Ever? (http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=292643&highlight=classical)

jag

[Dangerous]

I like classical style music, lots of it in fact, as film scores.

Beyond that I can't say I have much exposure to it, but that to which I do usually bores me as it lacks the same excitement and dynamism of the movie themes.

[CorpusBlack]

I love Dimitry Shostakovich. I also like Mozart, Beethoven and several others but Shostakovich takes the cake.

[NoName86]

My top picks would be Beethoven's Sixth, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Saint-Saens's Danse Macabre and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances. I love a whole bunch more but right now those would be my favourites. Every auntumn I listen to that on my way to and from work at night, particularly around Halloween. It has a very, I don't know quite how to explain it but it has a very European style, it is dark and mysterious and I love it.

[tzarinna]

Yes.

[Emma Frost]

my favorite piece i ever played was March of the Meistersingers in middle school orchestra.

Moonlit Sonata is fantastic. there's so many classical pieces i like but can't think of the names.

[Karebear]

The only classical CD I own is Vivaldi.......

I don't know much about classical, but I enjoy it from time to time.
When I just want to relax... I put it on the classical radio station.

[Phallic]

I absolutely love the Brahms Violin Concerto. If you have seen There Will Be Blood, it's the orchestra piece that plays during the credits after he says "I'm Done."

For those who don't know a lot about classical music and find it boring, Classical music is like any other genre.

Take Rock for instance. There is some very slow and moving rock while there is some very fast paced and very exciting rock songs. It all depends.

If you want a really exciting piece, listen to Prokofiev's Suggestion Diabolique (beware the dissonance though), or the Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement (the famous movement is the 1st movement) and other pieces.

Here are some exciting, fast paced pieces:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MSskiCgMl4 - Prokofiev Suggestion Diabolique

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mB-DcIgoiQ - Schnittke Cello Sonata Mov. 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D8hIeTwmck - Rachmaninov Prelude No. 5 Op. 23

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XTpwihpddI - Liszt "Mazeppa" Etude

These are just 4 of literally thousands of pieces.

Those who find classical music boring are simply those who haven't listened to enough.

[Leto Atrides]

I also love orchestral music, not as much classical but a lot of Impressionist and Romantic. Nikolai Rimsky-Kosakov, Maurice Ravel, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and Sergei Prokofiev are my favorites, though there a lot more that are great.

I'd also like to try and recommend some stuff to the people who keep saying they like film music:

Candide by Leonard Bernstein
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Bernstein was the guy who composed the music for West Side Story if you recognize his name at all.

Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland
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I think this is the music that best represents America, over normal patriotic songs or country music or anything. Also, if you listen to them one after the other James Horner directly lifted one theme (might be in part 2 of the video) for Apollo 13.

The Planets by Gustav Holst
Couldn't find a good video, but you've probably heard the first movement, "Mars, Bringer of War", before. The rest of the movements are even better than that one IMO, and Holst is the closest "legitimate" composer to John Williams' style of composition. This piece (both from listening to it and from comments from Williams) was a big inspiration in writing the music in Star Wars.


If you don't bother to listen to "Classical" music you're cutting yourself from off from the majority of music ever written.

[Captain_BluTac]

Anybody here?

Does the Nokia ring tone count?

[Phallic]

Does the Nokia ring tone count?

Not quite...

[NoName86]

I also love orchestral music, not as much classical but a lot of Impressionist and Romantic. Nikolai Rimsky-Kosakov, Maurice Ravel, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and Sergei Prokofiev are my favorites, though there a lot more that are great.

I'd also like to try and recommend some stuff to the people who keep saying they like film music:

Candide by Leonard Bernstein
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Bernstein was the guy who composed the music for West Side Story if you recognize his name at all.

Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland
_RXLwtvGH9c
I think this is the music that best represents America, over normal patriotic songs or country music or anything. Also, if you listen to them one after the other James Horner directly lifted one theme (might be in part 2 of the video) for Apollo 13.

The Planets by Gustav Holst
Couldn't find a good video, but you've probably heard the first movement, "Mars, Bringer of War", before. The rest of the movements are even better than that one IMO, and Holst is the closest "legitimate" composer to John Williams' style of composition. This piece (both from listening to it and from comments from Williams) was a big inspiration in writing the music in Star Wars.


If you don't bother to listen to "Classical" music you're cutting yourself from off from the majority of music ever written.

I think the problem lies with more modern genres of music who are heavily dependent on 4/4 rhythm. Once the percussion and the rhythm is slipped out from under them they find it boring...most people see classical as being too long, they want it to get to the point like most contemporary music doe. It's a shame that people never give it a trying chance because once you get used to listening to classical you see the composers intentions, his message and the emotion he is conveying to you. It's an octillion times deeper than more modern music, but that isn't to say most of the newer styles are bad, but rather that classical is just better at what all styles are trying to accomplish.

[Captain_BluTac]

Not quite...

Thus The Sarcasm.:dry:

[Phallic]

I think the problem lies with more modern genres of music who are heavily dependent on 4/4 rhythm. Once the percussion and the rhythm is slipped out from under them they find it boring...most people see classical as being too long, they want it to get to the point like most contemporary music doe. It's a shame that people never give it a trying chance because once you get used to listening to classical you see the composers intentions, his message and the emotion he is conveying to you. It's an octillion times deeper than more modern music, but that isn't to say most of the newer styles are bad, but rather that classical is just better at what all styles are trying to accomplish.

True, true.

The lack of patience is indeed what has caused many younger people to turn away from Classical music. I was fortunate to grow up with it, and I am very grateful that I was able to fully appreciate Classical music from a very young age.

Many human emotions transcend words. Some try to label a piece as "happy," or "sad," or "angry." However, these words can't really be applied to music. You don't need lyrics to tell you how to feel, all you need are sounds. And a good composer can make not only feel "happy" or "sad" or "angry," he/she can make you feel exactly how they feel.

I don't want to get overly zealous with my choice of words or come across as silly. The fact is, for me and for many others who fully appreciate Classical music, it puts you on a journey. A 4 minute song is entertaining, but 4 minutes is simply not enough time to really be able to express large musical ideas in a full fledged manner. Hell, for some composers, 3 hours isn't even enough, yet there is not one bar that can be cut.

I could, and have, sat through a 3 hour symphony nonstop. For most, it would be a long, arduous task. It would be unbearable. For me, I had no problem sitting through it.

It isn't easy to listen to a 3 hour symphony. I have introduced my friends to classical music. I'd start with shorter, more approachable pieces such as Preludes, Etudes, Nocturnes, etc. I would later move on to longer, more dense pieces, and finally, they'd have grown an appreciation for Classical music.

When people hear of classical music, their mind immediately goes to the famous opening notes of Beethoven's 5th symphony, or to the Ode to Joy, or to the Moonlight Sonata, or to Fur Elise. These are only 4 pieces out of the literal 100,000s of pieces out there. To be perfectly honest, those 4 aren't even among my favorites. Not even close.

Classical music is too large a genre to be cut down to only 3 or 4 composers and a handful of pieces. Few outside the Classical world have probably heard of Messiaen, or Scriabin, or Alkan, or even more famous composers such as Rachmaninov and Liszt. However, if people would only give a chance to these composers and their music, and if they were willing to develop the patience to really enjoy it, then they would probably grow an appreciation for it.

Modern music is often times good and enjoyable. However, Classical music is a different kind of enjoyment and it requires a different kind of listening. If one is willing to put in some effort towards understanding it and appreciating it, the pay-off is invaluable.

[Phallic]

Thus The Sarcasm.:dry:

Yes, I sort of knew that. :dry:

[sithgoblin]

This is heaven. This is life right here:

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The first movement of Summer from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. So beautiful. I love watching them play too, creating the music. Fantastic.

Seriously, if any of you spend five minutes doing anything today, watch this clip.

[NoName86]

Summer reminds me more of Autumn than Autumn does, and vice versa lol :oldrazz:. I love that composition though, it's wonderful.

[RogueLDN]

Boccherini, Bach, Quite a lot actually. Love a bit of classical, especially if its linked to a film. John Williams is one of the greatest composers ever.

[millennium movies]

Love it!

[The Apocalypse]

Raindrop Prelude by Chopin is amazing. :up:

[Phallic]

Raindrop Prelude by Chopin is amazing. :up:

Yeah, I definitely love Chopin.

You should definitely check out some of his Ballades if you haven't, especially number 4. It's sublime.

[Demogoblin]

Some of my favorite music is classical. Or orchestral. Heck, I dunno what to call its. Its old and cool. :o

Blue Danube
1812 Overture
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Die Walkure
O Fortuna
Fur Elise


There's more but I cant think of them.