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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2010 at 16:14
^ . . . . huh? Wacko
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2010 at 16:17
This thread is becoming awfully contentious. People around here take their classical msisc seriously.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2010 at 16:19
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

This thread is becoming awfully contentious. People around here take their classical msisc seriously.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2010 at 16:44
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

This thread is becoming awfully contentious. People around here take their classical msisc seriously.
I agree with you. More serious is my thread "Your favourite classical composer(s)". That´s a parasite thread, I mean.Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2010 at 17:15
Originally posted by JLocke JLocke wrote:

Originally posted by Gandalff Gandalff wrote:

Also Sprach Zarathustra, Blue Danube, 5th Beethoven Symphony (The Destiny), Orff´s  O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) and many others popular classic pieces appears in lot of movies, advertisments and every key-signatures. Does it signify that these opuses are more commercial or less valuable than the others?

I never said anything of the sort. I simply said I can't stand Johann Strauss II as a composer. Why is everybody assuming that there must be some other factor? Why aren't I allowed to think that Johann Strauss II wrote crappy music? Is Classical music some kind of sacred thing that nobody is allowed to criticize on certain points?

I love Rock music, but that doesn't mean I have to adore every Rock band that ever existed. Sheesh. Confused

I agree. Hate and irratation are, for the most part, emotional and irrational. Of course it's nice to provide some arguments on a forum, but that's never really been the point of this thread. Noone is obliged to like every single composer.

Johann Strauss II is the only composer that I really dislike. Practically all his compositions irritate me: I don't like the melodies, I find his music shallow, unemotional, and whatnot. Believe me, even the most perfect Strauss performance won't change that.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2010 at 17:30
Damn. I never expected to see a thread about classical music turn int the atheist/theist thread...

By the way, please stop saying Also Sprach Zarathustra is "also known" as 2001:Space Odyssey. The work's ral and only name is Also Sprach Zarathustra, a tone poem composed by Richard Strauss. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. Whoever knows a little about cinema and/or music will never refer to the music that opens the symphonic poem as "2001". 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2010 at 17:50
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Damn. I never expected to see a thread about classical music turn int the atheist/theist thread...

By the way, please stop saying Also Sprach Zarathustra is "also known" as 2001:Space Odyssey. The work's ral and only name is Also Sprach Zarathustra, a tone poem composed by Richard Strauss. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. Whoever knows a little about cinema and/or music will never refer to the music that opens the symphonic poem as "2001". 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2010 at 18:04
 
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

By the way, please stop saying Also Sprach Zarathustra is "also known" as 2001:Space Odyssey.

Blasphemer!!!!Angry

Well you know accuracy is impotant.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2010 at 18:47
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Damn. I never expected to see a thread about classical music turn int the atheist/theist thread...

By the way, please stop saying Also Sprach Zarathustra is "also known" as 2001:Space Odyssey. The work's ral and only name is Also Sprach Zarathustra, a tone poem composed by Richard Strauss. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. Whoever knows a little about cinema and/or music will never refer to the music that opens the symphonic poem as "2001". 

Thank you.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:08
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Damn. I never expected to see a thread about classical music turn int the atheist/theist thread...

By the way, please stop saying Also Sprach Zarathustra is "also known" as 2001:Space Odyssey. The work's ral and only name is Also Sprach Zarathustra, a tone poem composed by Richard Strauss. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. Whoever knows a little about cinema and/or music will never refer to the music that opens the symphonic poem as "2001". 

Thank you.

Much obliged. 
Hey, I'm not saying I think it should be called 2001, it's just that some people who aren't too knowledgable on music or cinema do.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2015 at 19:26

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2015 at 19:28
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

 
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

By the way, please stop saying Also Sprach Zarathustra is "also known" as 2001:Space Odyssey.

Blasphemer!!!!Angry

Well you know accuracy is impotant.
 
accuracy is impotent? 
 
wow, that's a profound statement.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2015 at 19:31
I don't get the point of Webern at all. I mean some of the stuff I've heard (string quartets) have had their good moments, but overall it all feels very inconsequential and doesn't add up to much.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2015 at 21:18
I used to not like Webern, but he grew on me. It's Schoenberg I don't get.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2015 at 21:39
Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

I used to not like Webern, but he grew on me. It's Schoenberg I don't get.

Agreed on Schoenberg. Also, I don't get Bartok. Usually I like eastern European folk composers, but I just can't get into his pieces. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 29 2015 at 02:28
Schoenberg tests my patience, definitely, but out of his string quartets I've enjoyed a fair amount of it. Second quartet is pretty good imo.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 29 2015 at 03:04
I know next to nothing on Classical composers - but the sheer pompousness of Carmina Burana choral work wants to make me puke - yet I love Magma, yet I have had a tough time for 20+ years accepting MDK as a 'masterpiece'........but I've heard about 17.5 seconds each of any of these historical composers...........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 29 2015 at 11:04
Originally posted by Ozark Soundscape Ozark Soundscape wrote:

Schoenberg tests my patience, definitely, but out of his string quartets I've enjoyed a fair amount of it. Second quartet is pretty good imo.
I'll have to give that a listen. With Webern there are a lot of subtle things going on sonically. With Berg there were moments of tonality that made the atonal parts more bleak. I'm just not quite sure what Schoenberg was going for. I do have yet to listen to his Quartets though.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 29 2015 at 11:38
I don't hate any classical composer but most of Mozart's music is not really my cup of tea. It sounds kind of empty and meaningless to me. I think many like Mozart's music for its serenity but I find that rather in Beethoven's and Schubert's early symphonies. I like Mozart's Requiem and Magic Flute, though.

For example this music is often compared to Mozart, but unlike Mozart is has so much warmth and life in it.






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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 29 2015 at 11:46
Originally posted by Ozark Soundscape Ozark Soundscape wrote:

I don't get the point of Webern at all.


I don't understand - he was a core of the Second Viennese School and had significant influence on a lot of 20th century avant-garde composers.  Now, if you don't like his stuff, no problem, but he very much "had a point".
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