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Damn That Music Sounds Classical

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  • Professor FuzzlesProfessor Fuzzles Not a furry, just sayin' FuzztopiaRegistered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    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.

  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    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.

    I guess it's the way the music effects me?

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    That's kinda amazing Fuzzles!

    Im terrible staying awake at the cinema, goodness knows how a live performance would go.

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    I know basically 90 percent of you will say the Cello

    but fuck you, the Oboe is the best instrument in the orchestra

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSAllHtkaa0

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    Bass Clarinet is the worst, obviously.

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  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    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.

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  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    Aww yes!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ
    If I could have a job in an orchestra, it would be Person Who Lights The Cannons.

    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.

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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    facetious wrote: »

    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!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA71PRwkaaA
    (you may have seen this ballet danced to! it looks effortless)

  • Sir FabulousSir Fabulous Malevolent Squid God Registered User regular
    One of my all time favourite composers is Gabriel Faure.

    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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  • marty_0001marty_0001 I am a file and you put documents in meRegistered User regular
    We play mostly classical music... but we could give it a shot.

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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

  • marty_0001marty_0001 I am a file and you put documents in meRegistered User regular
    In the Hall of the Mountain King will forever be my pump up track.

    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

  • PeccaviPeccavi Registered User regular
    I really enjoy Pachelbel's Canon in D Minor, which has been sampled by a billion modern musicians
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA-2hl1Vbc

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

  • NogginNoggin Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    March to the Scaffold by Berlioz, a bit slow at first but so intense

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwCuFaq2L3U

    edit: didn't realize first link was disabled for other sites

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQbuJ24Wzg I will never get sick of any rendition of this song.

    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

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    #pipe wrote: »
    I know basically 90 percent of you will say the Cello

    but fuck you, the Oboe is the best instrument in the orchestra

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSAllHtkaa0

    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.

  • djmitchelladjmitchella Registered User regular
    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:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zbbN4OL98

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Oh god I'd forgot that.

  • djmitchelladjmitchella Registered User regular
    Another one from the 1500s -- my sister and brother-in-law are in this choir:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAmD7h5Yyc

  • djmitchelladjmitchella Registered User regular
    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.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHp4LLnlKIg

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Hold the fucking presses

    How did I miss this thread?!?

    I love classical music!

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Everyone what is your favourite Requiem

    You can't pick Mozart's Requiem because then it's just boring

    Mine is probably Verdi's Requiem because of the Dies Irae

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Prove it.

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    I don't know many requiems! I would like to hear some though.

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Prove that Verdi's requiem is my favourite?

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Yes.

    Come hum it to me in its entirety with a smile on your face or I wont believe you.

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Well if you are going to listen to any one requiem then it absolutely needs to be Mozart's requiem

    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

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Ohhh I know this - yes, its beautiful! Also kind of sad at the same time.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    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.

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Most people know the most famous Requiem's or at least their most famous movements, because they are used a lot for a whole bunch of things

    The Verdi's Requiem Dies Irae was used in a Mad Max trailer recently, for example

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Yes.

    Come hum it to me in its entirety with a smile on your face or I wont believe you.

    That may be difficult...

  • WuShockWuShock Lawful Good South BrownbackistanRegistered User regular
    I have given explicit instructions to my family that at my funeral, the recessional will be Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2.

    The whole damn thing, just so I can troll all of my friends one last time.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    I want Eric Whitacre's "Sleep" at my funeral

    Make the bastards cry

    Also it's really good piece of choral music for reals

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxjWNJU8rNE

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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    It is very jolly at the end.



    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.

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    I'm going to ask that someone hire Solar to hum the entirety of Verdi's Requiem Dies Irae with a smile on his face at my funeral.

  • WuShockWuShock Lawful Good South BrownbackistanRegistered User regular
    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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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    I'm going to ask that someone hire Solar to hum the entirety of Verdi's Requiem Dies Irae with a smile on his face at my funeral.

    Prepare to be disappointed

    I'm going to sing it

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