Prog vs Classical

King of Loss wrote: NetsNJFan wrote: They are both great, my two favortite genres, (prog and classical), and both have different strengths and weaknesses.  they are both lightyears ahead of everything else out there, but I happen to think (good) classical wins easily. Jazz/Fusion Jazz anyone? But I do agree. Good Classical is somewhat better than Prog, but I like Progressive Rock/Metal better.

its like the other thread, I dont really like Jazz, but I respect it enormously (especially when you consider the enormous amount of sh*t out there)

NetsNJFan wrote: They are both great, my two favortite genres, (prog and classical), and both have different strengths and weaknesses.  they are both lightyears ahead of everything else out there, but I happen to think (good) classical wins easily.

What about Jazz? Or Jazz/Classical Fusion like Gershwin or Ravel?

bmorgan wrote: Valarius wrote: I'd definately go with Prog, however, I really like Classical music, but consider it more as a background music. BACKGROUND MUSIC???? HERETIC......OFF WITH HIS HEAD just kidding

Why kidding? I really think he should be tortured with a recording of LaBrie singing The Spice Girls Greatest Hits (over and over again)

Snow Dog wrote: Prog obviously wins!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats why we are here isn't it? If we prefered Classical we'd be on the Clas archives!

For me it does, but only because I don't know many classical composers.

I like Stravinski, Tsjaikofski, Mozart, and some others very much.

However the best ballet-music is still 'Le Sacre du printemps' no prog can ever really compete with that if you'd ask me, which with this thread they did.

List of favourite classical compositions.

1. Le Sacre Du Printemps (Stravinski)
2. Firebird Suite (Stravinski)
3. Eroica (Beethoven)
4. Le Quatro Stagioni (Vivaldi)
5. Fifth Symphony (Beethoven)
6. Don Giovanni (Mozart)
7. 1812 (Tchaikovski)

don't know many more, I ussualy only listen to the overtures, or excerpts from symphonies and opera's, but I'm sure there are many more classical masterpieces to be discovered.

Annie way anyone know the classical counterpart to progarchives.

classicalarchives

I can't believe some people make "contests" like this one. Sounds like another cheap TV show !!!

Progressive Rock was nailed by intellectual music critics in the seventies because they thought it was being pretentious... and this led to its downfall and the rise of Punk. So don't show the critics they were right !  

Progressive Rock has the word Rock. Don't forget it.

As for bands like Univers Zéro. I like to think that "Rock" doesn't necesserily mean a four men band with guitar, bass, drums and keys... this is where 'Progressive" comes in.

In my humble opinion of course.

Valarius wrote: I'd definately go with Prog, however, I really like Classical music, but consider it more as a background music.

BACKGROUND MUSIC????

HERETIC......OFF WITH HIS HEAD

just kidding

bmorgan wrote: boo boo wrote: i respect the principles of classical music...though i can easly get bored with it, depending on the style, bach is too routine for my taste...im more into schoenberg, stravinsky and stuff along those lines...and gershwin for fusing classical music with jazz...anyway i like prog more, because it takes those same principles and fuses them into a rock setting, making it more accesible for my taste. Gershwin...da man!!!! Doesn't get much better, IMHO !!!!! Yet, Berstein can be very jazzy himself.

 In another thread, I called Rhapsody In Blue the first prog epic ... not completely accurate, but it was quite progressive at the time. It fused classical music with the popular non-classical music of the time (Jazz).

boo boo wrote: i respect the principles of classical music...though i can easly get bored with it, depending on the style, bach is too routine for my taste...im more into schoenberg, stravinsky and stuff along those lines...and gershwin for fusing classical music with jazz...anyway i like prog more, because it takes those same principles and fuses them into a rock setting, making it more accesible for my taste.

Gershwin...da man!!!!

Doesn't get much better, IMHO !!!!! Yet, Berstein can be very jazzy himself.

Is prog as objectively complex as classical music? As a trumpet player, I have practiced and performed all types of music, even jazz-rock, fusion, or whatever you'd like to call it. I've studied music theory for two years in college before changing my major from music to philosophy. Classical music is without a doubt more difficult to compose, perform, analyze, AND experience than prog in general.

I agree with you bmorgan 100%, as a guitar player who performed in four rock bands (one prog) & studied music theory for years. I've studied and tried to play some music from Bach, Beethoven, Paganini & Vivaldi, and believe me it's not an easy task. Jazz is also very interesting to study and perform.