YAY FOR CLASSICAL MUSIC

[composer390]

Hey, I thought I'd start another classical music topic...

Who's everyones favorite?!

I personally enjoy (classical)- Mozart or Haydn. I love playing Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca

(romantic)- It'd have to be the man behind the mystery-  Ludwig van Beethoven.

(modern)- I'm currently loving Prokofiev. But my other favorite is Stravinsky. His ragtime sonata is so amazing to play. ^_^!

[Venus, Queen of Faeries]

Mozart and Beethoven. I gained a new appreciation and love for Beethoven two years ago when I took a class about him for my school's music minor. And we had to listen to a whole BUNCH of his music (cuz we were tested on it. "NAME THE PIECE AND THE MOVEMENT FROM THIS THIRTY-SECOND CLIP!!!"), and it was all downloadable from our class' site, so we could keep whatever we wanted, if we so chose. I kept a bunch of stuff. :3

[darkhalo121]

i would have to say Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninov. their music is some of the best composition i have ever heard.

[composer390]

Does anybody like any of the 20th century composers... I know Debussy was a Neoromanticist and led into the 20th... but I mean like Schoenbergs Serialist pieces or Stravinsky's Primitivism?

[darkhalo121]

R. Nathaniel Dett, he was a 20th century composer and a really good one if i may say so. i think you, hell everyone should check him out. very, very good music. his Magnolia Suite is great.

[composer390]

That is soooo cool... I downloaded it; I found the sheet music...I'm playing it (or learning it) as we speak..

IF you want to hear weird stuff (when you first listen), find some serialist pieces by Arnold Schoenberg or Alban Berg. There is an actual way to compose it, so the weirdness is in form. ^_^

[darkhalo121]

check out more of his music, another set of pieces that he did is called "In the Bottoms". just as good and the magnolia suite. hell i have his entire piano collection.

[nikkichanakay]

Beethovan, Bach, Mozart, Pachelbell, and Saint-Saens. I love Saint-Saen's Carnival of the Animals, especially No. 13 - The Swan.  Pachelbel for Canon in D, its such an fun piece to play. Although the shifts can be kinda evil sometimes >.>;;

[darkhalo121]

Although the shifts can be kinda evil sometimes >.>;;

i love how you worded that, it is so true, with all music shifts and time changes can be very, very evil.

[nikkichanakay]

Although the shifts can be kinda evil sometimes >.>;;

i love how you worded that, it is so true, with all music shifts and time changes can be very, very evil.

don't even get me started on time changes... i have more trouble with those than the shifts sometimes

[composer390]

Haha you guys want major changes in time signatures?

Serialism is the way to go....to make it sound even weirder, people like Schoenberg and Berg used way weid mixed up signatures like going from 4/4 to 3/8 to 3/16 to 2/2 and etc...

Ugh I hated playing them in theory for projects

[Venus, Queen of Faeries]

Any time signature with an odd number in the top is automatically evil.

[darkhalo121]

Any time signature with an odd number in the top is automatically evil.

yes, yes IT IS.

[Venus, Queen of Faeries]

I take it back; 9/8 isn't so bad. Sometimes, it's actually kinda fun. But something like 9/16 -- or 3/8, that just looks disgusting -- is horrendous.

[darkhalo121]

has anyone ever had to do something like analyze a piece of sheat music without the time signature, and in doing so figure out the time signature, and a lot of other things about the music like passing tones, and neighboring tones, and just about anything else that your theory teacher wants to throw at you?