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Damn That Music Sounds Classical
Liiya
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Do you like classical music? What even is classical music? Generally it is European music composed from the 11th century onward, with various periods known for a certain sound and style, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and to the present day! (thanks Wikipedia)
There is a lot classical music out there, some is very well known and you will have certainly have heard before such as The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkzWF1UE1CI
And some not so much such I Giorni by still alive Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi, though if you live in the UK you will have possibly heard the BBC use this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeOus0ZkB0Q
Some is very old like Greensleeves, possibly/possibly not written by Henry the Eighth (lets not go there), there are much older by far I’m sure, though this is the 1500s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ItNxpwChE
And some can have that modern feel of jazz that George Gershwin creates in the 1920s that proved very popular in movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLTManObB40
It can be somber and sad such as Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450
Or lively! Party on Jupiter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo
I've been enjoying a lot of classical music lately, maybe we could share some? What do you enjoy most?
Maybe this thread will die after the first page, who knows!
There is a lot classical music out there, some is very well known and you will have certainly have heard before such as The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkzWF1UE1CIAnd some not so much such I Giorni by still alive Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi, though if you live in the UK you will have possibly heard the BBC use this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeOus0ZkB0QSome is very old like Greensleeves, possibly/possibly not written by Henry the Eighth (lets not go there), there are much older by far I’m sure, though this is the 1500s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ItNxpwChEAnd some can have that modern feel of jazz that George Gershwin creates in the 1920s that proved very popular in movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLTManObB40It can be somber and sad such as Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450Or lively! Party on Jupiter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1loI've been enjoying a lot of classical music lately, maybe we could share some? What do you enjoy most?
Maybe this thread will die after the first page, who knows!
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then I was gonna try and make up for it by posting the fantasia 2000 version but disney has thoroughly removed it from youtube
Miranda's taste in music isn't all bad
Alan Sugar's Alan Sugar Show
Jonathan Creek
Anything with helicopters
I have a bit of a soft spot for Prokofiev's piano stuff as well, but you don't hear that on the tv or in films because it is well...kind of tinkly and difficult to sync up to anything and too odd for a theme song.
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Yes! I was going to add in the OP but it was getting a bit busy, I've found a lot of stuff from films/games/tv shows etc. Ride of the Valkyries is played whenever there is helicopters!
Mhm and Moonlight Sonata but I can't help think of Interview with a Vampire with it.
Also did someone say bombastic?
DADADADADA DADADADADA DADADADADA
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
both Verdi's
and Mozart's
If I could have a job in an orchestra, it would be Person Who Lights The Cannons.
This is a fav of mine. There are parts within where the violinist puts in so much hard work that when she gets to rest, I feel like if I were in the crowd I'd find it hard not to applaud like crazy. Between ~13:00-14:00 mins is probably the best example of this. So much respect for that kind of talent. Movie fans may also recognise the last passage as well.
and also, a classic classical would be of course
Just the sheer fucking emotion in his face at the end says it all.
It's fantastic, but dang advertising has tainted it in my mind like a bunch of classics, now I keep imagining beer when I hear it.
Albinoni:
Brahms:
Dvorak:
Tchaikovsky (warning: cannons):
already posted, so here is some Debussy instead:
Ravel:
Mussorgsky:
Moondog:
His Mass in B minor is one of the best pieces of classical music ever written
And his Toccata and Fugue in D minor is amazing
I also like the Agincourt Carol a lot (although the actual battle was rather grisly). The song starts at 0:24.
Exactly! It takes years of dedication to the craft to reach that kind of performance level. The last thing I'd want when I fucking nail a piece is to look out at the crowd and they're all just sitting there, giving some incredibly vague notion of approval. But then maybe that's rather uncultured of me?
As for the film:
Anyone who has seriously studied classical trumpet for more than a year or two knows (and probably curses) the name Arban.
Jean-Baptiste Arban was one of the pioneers and probably the first real virtuoso of the Valved (modern) Trumpet/Cornet. Before him, chromatic trumpets had keys on hinges, sealed with cork, similar to saxophones or clarinets. Valved trumpets were harder to play, but created a much cleaner, brighter, more accurately tuned sound. Any piece of music featuring trumpets that was written before 1810 or so was written for a keyed trumpet.
Arban was an educator, though, not so much a performer. He spent his skills figuring out how to learn the instrument, and how to teach it. He composed a series of hundreds studies (etudes) and in 1864 complied them into a book called The Cornet Method. When I started playing the trumpet in 1991, unless we were learning a specific piece of music, my lessons were almost always based around an Arban study.
As long as you can read music, and produce a sound on a trumpet, this book is basically all you need to go step by step from zero to virtuoso. It's incredible and I don't know of too many other educational books with the same scope.
Take this study on single tonguing
Notice the extremely variable tempo - 68-120 bpm The performer in this video is playing faster than 120. You could learn and master this study at those slower BPMs with a relatively low skill level and slowly build up speed to push the limits of your single tonguing.
Now as for the studies themselves, they're not designed to be world shaking musical pieces of glory and art - they're teaching tools. But damn if they aren't pretty beautiful. Arban was super great at making a study that focussed on building a particular skill, but was also actually musical, it had a tune you could recognize and learners could actually perform them to show off what they've learned (and many do).
Here is a video of Arban's theme and variations on the traditional song, Carnival of Venice
What I love about this is Marsalis is basically putting on a skills clinic. It is a simple, straight forward tune reimagined into a bunch of variations, each showcasing a different virtuosic skill. And you can learn, and refine and master every single one of these skills just by playing Arban studies.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Maybe, I'm not sure I'd be allowed in! I have not seen that film so I do not feel bad.
That is fantastic you played the trumpet to such a level, Pipe - wow!
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ohhhh and I want to do the BBC Last Night of the Proms so bad.
It for some reason takes me back to the 1920's sitting on the balcony of a posh hotel on the banks of lake Como watching Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot down below solve some murder.
Every single time.
I have heard that Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman before and its is gorgeous. I bloody love Miss Marple and Poirot so that would make me quite happy!
Does this happen to anyone else? I've never found anyone else.
Adagio for strings
Carmen - Habanera:
Let's see. My favorite thing about Franz Liszt is that he was the Elvis of the time. Women fainted over his music and dream boat looks.
Franz Liszt - Liebestraum - Love Dream:
The original music idol.
but they're listening to every word I say
To an extent, I find it hard to listen to music without my imagination bringing up a sort of film or scenario that matches the music. If I'm trying to study it has to be quiet relaxing classical, or quiet relaxing electronic in the background or I get distracted by my head. But I find silence distracting so I might put ambient sounds in the background.