Don't Any of You Guys Like Classical Music?
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Pretty much most orchestral music written in the 18th to 20th centuries is considered to be Classical to most folks.
But "Classical" is actually a specific era of orchestral music, mainly the 18th century like Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, etc.
Bach who was before that is considered part of the Baroque era.
How the eras are defined has much to do with musical composition, style, and the makeup of instruments in the orchestra. In the Classical period, brass instruments like trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, and tuba hardly existed. Those brass instruments became popular in orchestra in the 19th century with the ability to easily manufacture the brass instrument's bell and valves.
This is why Hollywood composers like Hans Zimmer find The Planets by Gustav Holzt useful for today's orchestral writing because Holzt lived in the 19th century when brass instruments were more developed, so Holzt is a good study for writing for the brass section.
Yet Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart are still major studies with writing for strings and woodwinds. And Bach is still a major study for contrapuntal writing (i.e., counterpoint - two or more lines of melodies moving independent of each other).
But "Classical" is actually a specific era of orchestral music, mainly the 18th century like Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, etc.
Bach who was before that is considered part of the Baroque era.
How the eras are defined has much to do with musical composition, style, and the makeup of instruments in the orchestra. In the Classical period, brass instruments like trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, and tuba hardly existed. Those brass instruments became popular in orchestra in the 19th century with the ability to easily manufacture the brass instrument's bell and valves.
This is why Hollywood composers like Hans Zimmer find The Planets by Gustav Holzt useful for today's orchestral writing because Holzt lived in the 19th century when brass instruments were more developed, so Holzt is a good study for writing for the brass section.
Yet Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart are still major studies with writing for strings and woodwinds. And Bach is still a major study for contrapuntal writing (i.e., counterpoint - two or more lines of melodies moving independent of each other).
Clair de Lune, La Mer, etc., by Claude Debussy, some of my favorite pieces.
Debussy was categorized as Impressionist writing, which was an era of art in his day with the idea of painting an emotion or to evoke a feeling of a scene, and not about portraying something in the realistic accurate sense. Oil painters like Monet, Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, were Impressionist painters. Renoir's paintings look out of focus, because his eyesight was nearsighted, but it worked for the Impressionist style. Music written in similar loose terms was classified as Impressionist based on those kind of ideas (Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, Satie, Manuel de Falla, etc.).
Debussy was loose on traditional functional harmony that previous composers all relied upon. He often used parallel chord progressions, whole-tone scale, harmonic devices which defy the use of traditional functional music theory. If you try to figure out Debussy's harmony thinking in traditional harmonized scale chords forget it. The way he used chords was more in an interval relative sense instead of major or minor scale harmonized chords.
Lot of Jazz musicians study Debussy, because of his harmonic approach really is very similar to how Jazz harmony works.
Debussy was categorized as Impressionist writing, which was an era of art in his day with the idea of painting an emotion or to evoke a feeling of a scene, and not about portraying something in the realistic accurate sense. Oil painters like Monet, Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, were Impressionist painters. Renoir's paintings look out of focus, because his eyesight was nearsighted, but it worked for the Impressionist style. Music written in similar loose terms was classified as Impressionist based on those kind of ideas (Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, Satie, Manuel de Falla, etc.).
Debussy was loose on traditional functional harmony that previous composers all relied upon. He often used parallel chord progressions, whole-tone scale, harmonic devices which defy the use of traditional functional music theory. If you try to figure out Debussy's harmony thinking in traditional harmonized scale chords forget it. The way he used chords was more in an interval relative sense instead of major or minor scale harmonized chords.
Lot of Jazz musicians study Debussy, because of his harmonic approach really is very similar to how Jazz harmony works.
I really enjoy listening to classical music as well (particularly Johann Sebastian Bach). I put together this video of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 using a musical piece of Bach's called "Sonata For Violin and Harpsicord No3. in E major" performed by Mela Tenebaum (violin) and Richard Capp (piano).
[video=youtube;s5Hctw-cWV4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Hctw-cWV4[/video]
[video=youtube;s5Hctw-cWV4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Hctw-cWV4[/video]
Someone mentioned Hans Zimmer, and he is one of my favorites I must say. I have his things in with my favorite movie soundtracks mostly. My husband watches lots of movies TV and I dont but I overhear alot, and I will always ask what movie it is when I hear something playing in the back I love.
I like this one too
[video=youtube;AsjzKGuUwvs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsjzKGuUwvs[/video]
I like this one too
[video=youtube;AsjzKGuUwvs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsjzKGuUwvs[/video]
I like a lot of the baroque stuff... Beethoven, Bach, Mozart... I like Tchaichovsky... and at least one by Rossini...
I also like "Flight of the Valkyries" by Wagner, but most of his stuff is too dark for me. I also like Queen...
I also like "Flight of the Valkyries" by Wagner, but most of his stuff is too dark for me. I also like Queen...
I like some of Wagner's incidental music from his operas, but I could never listen to an entire opera by him!
I LOVE Verdi -- his operas are fantastic. Also Puccini -- love those Italian operas!
Yes.... William Tell.... that whole piece is wonderful.... very soothing, pastoral music, then explodes into the "Lone Ranger" part.... really takes you by surprise, which is, I assume, the effect he wanted.
Someone once said that you were indeed sophisticated if you could listen to the William Tell, and NOT think of the Lone Ranger... Much like listening to "Heard It Through the Grapevine" without picturing the dancing raisins...
I'll check out the Magpie one...
Someone once said that you were indeed sophisticated if you could listen to the William Tell, and NOT think of the Lone Ranger...
Much like listening to "Heard It Through the Grapevine" without picturing the dancing raisins...I'll check out the Magpie one...
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I love classical music, but it is pretty heady. Like anything good. Like good literature or a good painting/sculpture of even (though I kinda hate comparing it to this!) a really classic movie. Let's just face it. It's pretty hard to read classics when you're tired, and I can't listen to classical music when I'm tired. Then I go to something no-mind modern. But IMO, there will never be a better genre than the classical genres (to be specific, I've never cared for the Classical genre itself, but I LOVE Baroque and Romantic!) My favourite pieces change a lot, but my composers are pretty standard. Bach and Tchaikovsky are at the tops