Why do you love classical music?

[angeleyes]

Hopefully in this thread i will get posters responding something like: WTH i don't like it, i hate it, because ....

In short i think popmusic gives you energy, while classicalmusic gives you peace, rest, acceptance,

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I hate classical music. Why do you assume I love classical music?

Seriously, though, classical music is a great background to civ, its conveys emotion in a way that I can understand, and its a style I can relate to, being a classical trombonist myself.

 

[Red Door]

I hate it. It's stupid.

 

[NKVD]

depends which songs...no pop song is stronger than Dances of the Knights by Prokofiev. my opinion...

 

[Mirc]

LOL, the "why do you hate it" is full with "I love it" comments, and the "why do you love it" is full of "I hate it"!

 

[Masquerouge]

LOL, the "why do you hate it" is full with "I love it" comments, and the "why do you love it" is full of "I hate it"!

I guess Asperger was right then

 

[Sidhe]

Because I like all music except dance,techno,hardcore,trance,mank,trupsy and wejun. and free form wank.

To be frank I'll listen to anything so long as it isn't midlessley repetative and isn't just some remixed version of a better song.

Even dance has it's good bands, problem is most of their bands are lazy and ****. and let me specify what **** is, it's that steaming pile that comes out of your mind, when you haven't got any talent anyway.

I like classical because it's the antithesis of dance, ie original imaginative, and doesn't rely on laziness.

 

[Ansar]

Classical music is nice to listen to when everything is quiet.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

depends which songs...no pop song is stronger than Dances of the Knights by Prokofiev. my opinion...

I find Shostakovich to be equally moving,and with good reason: he had a lot to be angry about, what with this Stalin guy running around killing people all willy-nilly and the whatnot.

 

[angeleyes]

I find Shostakovich to be equally moving,and with good reason: he had a lot to be angry about, what with this Stalin guy running around killing people all willy-nilly and the whatnot.

Maybe this the reason i can't get used to Shostakovitch....

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Maybe this the reason i can't get used to Shostakovitch....

I don't understand. Explain?

 

[angeleyes]

In the OP i wrote classical music giving me rest, peace etc, but Shostakovitch wrote his music with anger in his body, like you told in your post.

 

[Ecclesiastes]

Classical music is the most well thought out form of music period, I took a classical music section in college for my theory 101 and I got hooked on that stuff, to truly understand its brilliance I guess you really have to play an instrument but It can obviously be appreciated otherwise. Anybody who calls it stupid "litterally" has no idea what theyre talking about.

 

[downtown]

Classical music is the most well thought out form of music period, I took a classical music section in college for my theory 101 and I got hooked on that stuff, to truly understand its brilliance I guess you really have to play an instrument but It can obviously be appreciated otherwise. Anybody who calls it stupid "litterally" has no idea what theyre talking about.

I wouldn't say that all classical music is the most thought out. There are rock, jazz and blues tunes that are just as well charted out. I wouldn't say its *all* brilliant either, although some is. Just because there are more instruments doesnt make it "better".

I enjoy some classical music for its emotional properities, and for its many layers of sound. When I want to train my ears better, or brush up on my theory, I put in some classical CDs.

 

[Phlegmak]

Hopefully in this thread i will get posters responding something like: WTH i don't like it, i hate it, because ....

In short i think popmusic gives you energy, while classicalmusic gives you peace, rest, acceptance,

Classical music sounds good.

Also, what's generally considered "classical" in the vernacular sense spans centuries and many musical styles. Classical music is not merely peaceful, like some slow Bach song, but can also be violent, like some of Beethoven's music.

 

[Gogf]

Do we really need two threads for this?

 

[innonimatu]

Nothing beats the sound of a full orchestra playing a good piece...

Oh, and I do hate piano solos.

 

[skadistic]

I like it because its full. Full of sound from many diffrent and diffrent types of instuments. The structure is complex.



And anything with horns kicks ass.

 

[Ecclesiastes]

I wouldn't say that all classical music is the most thought out. There are rock, jazz and blues tunes that are just as well charted out. I wouldn't say its *all* brilliant either, although some is. Just because there are more instruments doesnt make it "better".

I enjoy some classical music for its emotional properities, and for its many layers of sound. When I want to train my ears better, or brush up on my theory, I put in some classical CDs.

Errr.....i dont listen to orchestral classical, that stuff just annoys the hell out of me, I was talking more classical pianists and guitarists, the orchestra stuff alrite, but it just seems to lose all emotion when youv got a bunch of no name blaring through tubas.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

In the OP i wrote classical music giving me rest, peace etc, but Shostakovitch wrote his music with anger in his body, like you told in your post.

Well it's not angry angry, its passion. The man loves his country, and his passion for his country comes out in his music, which was written to be subtely patriotic; it was his own personal rebellion against Stalin, who commissioned him to write many works. Shostakovich did not like Stalin, I'll leave it at that.

So his work isn't "angry," I shouldn't have used that word.