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Why is classical music a rare taste?
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
It seems like almost nobody my age likes classical music. Even some people who perform in the orchestra at my university seem to have little interest in listening to classical music, and asking them for favorite composers may draw up a blank. It seems like they generally listen to the same bunch of pop as everybody else. Any thoughts on why this is?
Do you like any classical music? If not, why not? |
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| ballmouse |
| because it's harder to steal classical music off limewire?? |
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| mezzir |
man, i write classical music
threw that together last night:) |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by ballmouse
because it's harder to steal classical music off limewire?? |
:haha: |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by eROs.au
Its not good. |
What have you heard? |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by mezzir
man, i write classical music |
Interesting. Who are some of your favorite composers? |
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| Akridrot |
1. Harder to steal
2. Harder to appreciate
3. I look at it as music to study rather than listen to
It's like contemporary music represents a novel to me, but classical music is more like an older, classic literary work. I don't read Shakespeare for entertainment.
Or something. |
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| Project-K |
| I do like some classical, but even then I very rarely listen to it. I think it's more of a cultural issue. I understand it, I just don't relate to it. :conf: It's hard to explain. |
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| Omega_M |
| perhaps because peoples' musical tastes have changed after listening to too much synthesized music. |
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| eRRaTiK |
| i like classical. four seasons FTW! |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
I think it's more of a cultural issue. I understand it, I just don't relate to it. :conf: It's hard to explain. |
I think it may be a cultural issue of some kind. I'm not sure what it is really.
I think that one thing that bothers people about classical is that it's a lot more "elastic" than pop: it often changes keys and sometimes time signatures and uses different harmonies at different points, it transforms melodies throughout a piece (sometimes to the point of unrecognizability), it slows and accelerates pretty often, has a wide dynamic (soft to loud) variation, and so on. Pop tends to have melodies, harmonies, and volume level that are pretty much static (other than the old "go silent --> bring everything crashing in" trick), and a beat that's really easy to identify. It's more about variation in timbre and changes in overall "mood" rather than melodic / thematic development. The two kinds of music are sort of like different languages or something. |
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