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Burt Reynolds
Title: Bentley Bear
Joined: Apr 07 2008
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Anybody else on the thread a classical music fan? I love the stuff, and I'm looking for some suggestions for good songs to check out. Keep in mind I've heard almost everything from Beethoven Mozart, Chopin, and Liszt. Feel free to discuss them, but I'm looking for suggestions on maybe some lesser known BeAtz.
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
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I'm not so knowledged in classical, I'm just a fan of Beethoven, Mozart, some Bach, and my favorite is Tchaikovsky.
Nutcracker score for the win!
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kenthegod
Title: Midnight Scientist
Joined: Dec 07 2006
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Van Halen lol i'm clever.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
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I like Bach. Since you play the piano you might have fun playing Bach's The Musical Offering. There are lots of musical riddles hidden in it like crab canons, that you can play forward and backwards, or even upside down and perpetual canons where the canon ends with its own beginning (one octave higher IIRC). I was never good enough for any of that, but a friend of mine was fascinated with the stuff.
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Shut up, Dorn
Title: White Chocolate
Joined: Jan 04 2008
Location: Grate Whyte Norf
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Check out Gustav Holst. You might like him.
I also like John Barnes Chance. A newer composer who a lot of directors are going googoo for is Eric Whitacre.
I really like Rimsky-Korsakov and Dimitri Shostakovich.
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Blackout
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docinsano
Title: Boner King
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Mozart for sure Bach is solid too. I listen to public radio a great deal and they play a lot of Bach some of the time. Hell, all of the classical is good. Russian composers crank out some good music, as do Austrian. I tend to follow the country of origin rather than try to remember a name especially since when I listen on the radio I have no idea who the composer is since I usually will tune in in the middle of a song.
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Burt Reynolds
Title: Bentley Bear
Joined: Apr 07 2008
Location: California
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Tyop: Yes, Bach's Harpsichord, organ works are always a blast to play, especially his Inventions. I will have to check out the Musical Offering. Thanks!
Shut up, Dorn: I will definitely check them out. Those are perfect suggestions. I'm not a classical scholar by any means, but I have heard a lot of the really famous guys. I have a ton of Demitri Shostakovitch, I really like his Polka and his string quartets.
Blackout: I always love me some boroque, but I generally prefer the Romantic Era when the music was less restricted as far as structure goes. I love classical era too, but it tends to all kind of sound the same, except for the few exceptional musicians of the time (Mozart)
Also, as a side note: I got into it with my brother the other day. He has a degree in music so assumes he is always right. He says Beethoven was a romantic composer. I've always understood that he was a Classical composer, but his later works pretty much brought about the Romantic era even though he was still technically within the Classical era.
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Tsunami Red
Title: Maniacal Tactician
Joined: Jul 06 2008
Location: Metro Toronto
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I had to study all this shit for my exams. Bach's P+F, WTC book 1, Liszt's 'La Campanella', Beethoven's Pathetic sonata, Ravel's Fountains, Schubert and Schumann's lied, and on, and on, and on.
Now I have to PLAY this shit for my practical exam. It'll take me years before I can play at their level.
BTW Beethoven was a transitional composer - he existed in two different eras, mainly Classical but was Romantic near the end of his career.
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monachetti
Joined: Apr 23 2007
Location: State of Confusion
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i got a degree in music playing guitar. i liked playing stuff by isaac albeniz, fransisco tarrega, hector villa-lobos. leo brouwer is cool too, if you like music that's a little more out there.
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Burt Reynolds
Title: Bentley Bear
Joined: Apr 07 2008
Location: California
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| monachetti wrote: |
| i got a degree in music playing guitar. i liked playing stuff by isaac albeniz, fransisco tarrega, hector villa-lobos. leo brouwer is cool too, if you like music that's a little more out there. |
haha, I like albeniz. Not a huge classical guitar fan, and I suck at the guitar, but I like playing the part from Layenda that the doors borrowed for Spanish Caravan. Once it gets to the part where your picking the top two strings on the & count, it gets too hard for me though.
Tsunami: That's a bitch. Granted, the piano was my first introduction to music and I was 7, but damn it took me a good 5-6 years to play Beethoven's Pathetique. That was only at an acceptable level too. took longer less many mistakes.
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Mitch
Joined: Jun 04 2008
Location: Alabama
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bad joke deleted, because evidence that I'm retarded is already too plentiful.
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Shut up, Dorn
Title: White Chocolate
Joined: Jan 04 2008
Location: Grate Whyte Norf
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Really? I didnt lol at all.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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I like Bach, Saint-Saens, and Handl the most. If you want something newer that might be up your alley, try the album Electric Tears by Buckethead (No, I'm serious). It mostly sounds like a mix between classical and Spanish Folk, and is relaxing as hell.
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