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Why is classical music a rare taste? (pg. 2)
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Yeah, that's one of the things. |
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| mezzir |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Interesting. Who are some of your favorite composers? |
I don't really listen to classical that much, but the stuff I write is more sountrack-type stuff, its definitely got a pop aspect to it. So in that vein, Aaron Copeland, John Williams, Ennio Morricone, CLINT ING MANSELL, Jon Brion |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Michael Nyman is probably my favorite composer for film. He did the score for Gattaca.
One thing I find kind of funny is the way that people will say proudly that their favorite musicians were "classically trained" and yet show no interest in the musical tradition that was used to "classically train" them. Kind of odd.
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| Krypton |
| quote: | Originally posted by 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? |
The corporations have always sought to limit music that promotes intellectual development and maximize sex, drugs, and money in the mainstream record industry. My theory is the purpose is to distract us from the "agenda" of globalization.
Or its outdated??:conf:
I like opera much better than instrumental orchestras. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Audiotron
who knows. who cares. why does it matter. |
I guess it matters less than many things. But I listen mostly to classical music, and I'm just wondering why the vast majority of people seem uninterested in or even outright dismissive of a musical tradition that stretches back over a thousand years and is the ultimate root of all the pop music that they enjoy today. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
I like opera much better than instrumental orchestras. |
That's interesting. I'm not much of a fan of opera, but then I haven't really heard too much of it. I prefer instrumental stuff. But Don Giovanni is cool, and I liked the operatic singing in Gorecki's third symphony. |
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| Project-K |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
...and I'm just wondering why the vast majority of people seem uninterested in or even outright dismissive of a musical tradition that stretches back over a thousand years and is the ultimate root of all the pop music that they enjoy today. |
Then again, why don't people listen to african tribal music, or austrialian didgeridoos, or... |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
The corporations have always sought to limit music that promotes intellectual development and maximize sex, drugs, and money in the mainstream record industry. |
This makes me think of something else that came to the fore in the pop industry: the centering of the music around the performer. In classical music, the performer is for the most part just the "vehicle" by which the music is conveyed.
But then the "record industry" side of classical music tends to follow the pop model on this score, too, with people like Bocelli and Pavarotti (and this does have precedents in the classical tradition with people like Lizst). As long as there are gifted performers there will be young women to swoon over them...
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
But the big difference between the two is the "singer-songwriter" model: pop has got it and classical hasn't. When you compose a classical work, it becomes "common property" in a way that pop music doesn't. A pop song becomes attached to a particular person, the composer-performer, and all the celebrity gaga and mystique follows from that. Classical doesn't have that aspect to it. However gifted he was, Pavarotti didn't write the things he performed, and neither did most of the talented instrumentalists who play the classical repertoire in orchestras around the world.
I think that may be one of the keys. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Audiotron
you just made my head explode with this ridiculous comment |
What is "ridiculous" about it? |
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