I go through phases of listening to musical styles, mainly hip hop to be honest as most other styles render a movie to play in my head so I cannot have background music playing but cause my brain will decide on playing a unique film in my head and I do not understand why but it stops me from listening to most music (Yet able to still play music games) And classical and Opera (Sorry for hijacking the thread with opera!) both end up leaving me in tears with the images they produce.
Does this happen to anyone else? I've never found anyone else.
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.
Mine is a full out film with the words being the script it locks me down till the song is over then I end up thinking about it it for hours later, so total quiet to me is wonderful or even background noise. I must be one of the few people that actually enjoyed the sound od plane/trains/road works even! If I could live next to a working building site or quarry it would be bliss.
My issue is that most classical music makes me sleepy. That's not to say that it bores me. I find it really interesting. But going to performances never feels like it's worth it because I usually end up nearly asleep.
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Vivaldi is my favourite composer. I tend to prefer the lighter, more chamber-ish style of orchestra, although super heavy pieces are certainly great in their own way.
Also when I was a kid I was a total snob who called Beethoven overrated and refused to listen to him but it turns out his pieces are fucking spectacular, cliché or not.
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
So I know you, @Liiya, are familiar with my summer job - but for those who aren't, I get to dress in period uniform and talk about history.
The fort I work at was important in the War of 1812, so over the last few years, with the bicentennial, we've stressed that with additional demonstrations in the uniform of that war. It was at a musket fire demonstration a couple years ago that one of my coworkers fired one shot, unaware that one of our resident musicians had snuck up behind him, and as he began the arduous process of reloading a flint-lock musket, the musician began to play the 1812 Overture on penny-whistle.
It was hilarious in and of itself, but extra hilarious seeing him try to load while struggling desperately not to laugh and turning beet red in the process.
Technically the 1812 Overture is about the other war the British were fighting, but still.
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
So I know you, @Liiya, are familiar with my summer job - but for those who aren't, I get to dress in period uniform and talk about history.
The fort I work at was important in the War of 1812, so over the last few years, with the bicentennial, we've stressed that with additional demonstrations in the uniform of that war. It was at a musket fire demonstration a couple years ago that one of my coworkers fired one shot, unaware that one of our resident musicians had snuck up behind him, and as he began the arduous process of reloading a flint-lock musket, the musician began to play the 1812 Overture on penny-whistle.
It was hilarious in and of itself, but extra hilarious seeing him try to load while struggling desperately not to laugh and turning beet red in the process.
Technically the 1812 Overture is about the other war the British were fighting, but still.
Aka The Coolest Job. Poor guy! I bet it lacks the punch somewhat when on the penny whistle!
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.
LOVE this song and they blow it out of the water in this performance but Sarah Brightman always creeps me the hell out here. She's so clingy ew ew ew.
My super fave "moden" classical piece is Gorecki;s full Symphony number 3. It's just stunning. It's basically a 50 minutes crescendo that starts so low you don't even know the music has started until about 2 minutes in and it's based on writings found on the walls of Nazi concentration camps where the prisoners were more concerned for their grieving mothers than for themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVITZUQ_uIU
Someone already posted Bolero, but for anyone in the UK between the ages of (something) and (something else), there'll only ever be one version that counts:
And more singing; I'll quote from the original article a bit: (context: Metropolitan Opera doing "Tales of Hoffman"; Kathleen Kim is the main singer, Rachele Gilmore is the understudy)
One night, Kim got sick and Rachele Gilmore was forced to make her Met stage debut on just three hours’ notice.
This second video is an example of what happens when a highly technical role is performed by a talented, hardworking person who knows that:
(1) This next performance is a huge moment in any singer’s career;
(2) This is an aria in which the singer is actually supposed to showboat during the reprise;
and maybe most importantly
(3) She doesn’t necessarily need to protect her voice for the next two weeks of performances.
Do watch the whole thing — it’s so worth it — but skip ahead to 3:35 if you only have time for the fireworks.
When she gets to the reprise, smoley hokes! Yes, you are hearing the audience gasping at what Gilmore is doing. The popular consensus is that her A-flat above high C was the highest note ever sung in a Metropolitan Opera production.
Whether it was or it wasn’t, just look at that response! The audience simply refused to allow the production to move forward until they’d worn out their arms and their hands applauding. Yeah, she probably did pretty good, there.
We went to Mozart's grave when we visited Vienna! There's a monument on the field where he was buried. For some reason it has a chubby angel with a club on it who looks really down, as if he clubbed Mozart to death the other day.
On the whole, I trend toward the Romantic composers. Beethoven (I blame reading Peanuts as a kid), Liszt, Tchaikovsky, I think Richard Strauss' Don Juan is sorely underappreciated.
I finally got to see Rhapsody in Blue performed live last year, and it was so worth it.
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Mine is a full out film with the words being the script it locks me down till the song is over then I end up thinking about it it for hours later, so total quiet to me is wonderful or even background noise. I must be one of the few people that actually enjoyed the sound od plane/trains/road works even! If I could live next to a working building site or quarry it would be bliss.
I guess it's the way the music effects me?
Im terrible staying awake at the cinema, goodness knows how a live performance would go.
but fuck you, the Oboe is the best instrument in the orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSAllHtkaa0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w
Also when I was a kid I was a total snob who called Beethoven overrated and refused to listen to him but it turns out his pieces are fucking spectacular, cliché or not.
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So I know you, @Liiya, are familiar with my summer job - but for those who aren't, I get to dress in period uniform and talk about history.
The fort I work at was important in the War of 1812, so over the last few years, with the bicentennial, we've stressed that with additional demonstrations in the uniform of that war. It was at a musket fire demonstration a couple years ago that one of my coworkers fired one shot, unaware that one of our resident musicians had snuck up behind him, and as he began the arduous process of reloading a flint-lock musket, the musician began to play the 1812 Overture on penny-whistle.
It was hilarious in and of itself, but extra hilarious seeing him try to load while struggling desperately not to laugh and turning beet red in the process.
Technically the 1812 Overture is about the other war the British were fighting, but still.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Aka The Coolest Job. Poor guy! I bet it lacks the punch somewhat when on the penny whistle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA71PRwkaaA
(you may have seen this ballet danced to! it looks effortless)
He wrote my second favourite Requiem of all time (It's tough to beat Mozart), but my all-time favourite of his is the Cantique de Jean Racine.
It is so very calming to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKwHiGg21KA
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I had Ave Maria stuck in my head for ages because of Hitman Blood Money:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bosouX_d8Y
Trent Reznor's version of In the Hall of the Mountain King in The Social Network is nuts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatmdqTYivI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA-2hl1Vbc
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwCuFaq2L3U
edit: didn't realize first link was disabled for other sites
LOVE this song and they blow it out of the water in this performance but Sarah Brightman always creeps me the hell out here. She's so clingy ew ew ew.
My super fave "moden" classical piece is Gorecki;s full Symphony number 3. It's just stunning. It's basically a 50 minutes crescendo that starts so low you don't even know the music has started until about 2 minutes in and it's based on writings found on the walls of Nazi concentration camps where the prisoners were more concerned for their grieving mothers than for themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVITZUQ_uIU
I agree, I think the oboe is the instrument that comes closest to the human voice. It can have so much emotion it's just amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zbbN4OL98
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAmD7h5Yyc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHp4LLnlKIg
How did I miss this thread?!?
I love classical music!
You can't pick Mozart's Requiem because then it's just boring
Mine is probably Verdi's Requiem because of the Dies Irae
Come hum it to me in its entirety with a smile on your face or I wont believe you.
Because it is the finest one, IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs
beautiful
Mozart died about halfway through composing this movement, by the way
Süssmayr (his protege) finished it
When I sang it, someone had scribbled "Mozart dies here" and drawn a little arrow to about halfway down the fourth page
The Verdi's Requiem Dies Irae was used in a Mad Max trailer recently, for example
That may be difficult...
The whole damn thing, just so I can troll all of my friends one last time.
Make the bastards cry
Also it's really good piece of choral music for reals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxjWNJU8rNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0a5-7Ykr3w There is a pure audio version of Firebird, turns out the main thing is 47 minutes long, I'm not posting that.
I finally got to see Rhapsody in Blue performed live last year, and it was so worth it.
Prepare to be disappointed
I'm going to sing it