Classical Music - Page 2

Bezo · 01-09-2004, 08:49 PM

Love classical? I write classical.

Well, neo-classical anyway.

Lycanthrope · 01-10-2004, 12:39 AM

Hey! Me too! My favorites are Mendelsohn (Mozart's reincarnation in the romantic period, when music was more interesting), Tchiacovski, Dvorak, Bach, Stravinski, Shostacovich, Gershwin, Saint-Sains, and several others. I'd like Mahler if I could find the time and attention to listen to him. I dispise Wagner, or at least most Wagner, and most other of the Late Romantic Germans, although there are quite a few noticable exceptions.
I like Beetoven too, although I usually opt for something later and more complex.
Oh, and cant forget Britten and Holst (yes, planets=cool, esp. Mars). Bernstine. Yes I know too much for my own good, but that's ok. I play the violin, and so get a lot of exposure.

Muffin Mage · 01-10-2004, 09:34 AM

Bah. I play sax, and most classical sax music is a) bad, b) transposed tuba/string bass parts, or c) Gershwin.

Illuminatus · 01-10-2004, 10:25 AM

Classical guitar rocks hardcore. I listen to all kinds of CLassical music, but not extensively, mainly because there's a lot I like and a lot I don't and it's hard to find a CD or tape with the right combo.

Lycanthrope · 01-10-2004, 11:08 PM

Muffin Mage: Check out bizet. L'arsien suite has a sax in it and its pretty good.

Edit: the sax also has a solo.

01-10-2004, 11:12 PM

Yeah, I listen to classical music, but I like jazz best. I play trombone and its where you actually get some solos.

FunnyLooking · 01-10-2004, 11:21 PM

I love classical, as it by far the best genre of music. Tchaikovsky is personally my favorite composer. Little Russian, Marche Slave, Swan Lake, and 1812 Overture all are totally hardcore.

Mendelsohn is pretty awesome, but I've only heard the Violin Concerto. It rules though.

No solos for trombone in classical music? Where have you been looking?

Oh, a recent classical composer nowadays is Frank Ticheli, who's really good if you've ever heard Blue Shades. It's bordering on jazzy though, making it ever cooler.

Lycanthrope · 01-11-2004, 12:36 AM

Funny Looking: As for Mendelsohn, yes the violin concerto is cool. You can get a good span of his carrier and its highlights from this list (this is the order he wrote them in, btw):
Octet
Midsummernight's Dream Overture
Fourth Symphony
Third Symphony (yes, he did write the fourth before the third. Its a long story)
Violin Concerto.

He really doesn't sound like violin concerto style until the third symphony though, he kinda came into his own then, but the rest are still cool. He wrote the octet and the overture when he was 16. Mozart wrote his first major noteworthy piece when he was 21.

Bezo · 01-11-2004, 03:00 AM

I wish my MP3.com page was still up so I could show you guys my stuff.

Oh well, hopefully I'll find a new host soon.

Lycanthrope · 01-11-2004, 08:50 PM

Oh well... I suppose I could, if I tried really hard, find some way of recording my pieces. Problem is that I write mostly orchestral music, and, well, if you've ever tried converting a midi file into an audio file when your midi system is incompattible with your audio recording software, you know what I'm talking about.

01-09-2004, 08:49 PM	#11
Bezo Shinobu Maehara Fanboy Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 357	Love classical? I write classical. Well, neo-classical anyway. __________________ Random Cool Quote: "Only one who renounces everything possesses the strength to transcend anything." Trema, Final Fantasy X-2 Not So Random Link: Come Check Out My Deviant Art

01-10-2004, 12:39 AM	#12
Lycanthrope Deus Lupus Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The City of Angels Posts: 2,925	Hey! Me too! My favorites are Mendelsohn (Mozart's reincarnation in the romantic period, when music was more interesting), Tchiacovski, Dvorak, Bach, Stravinski, Shostacovich, Gershwin, Saint-Sains, and several others. I'd like Mahler if I could find the time and attention to listen to him. I dispise Wagner, or at least most Wagner, and most other of the Late Romantic Germans, although there are quite a few noticable exceptions. I like Beetoven too, although I usually opt for something later and more complex. Oh, and cant forget Britten and Holst (yes, planets=cool, esp. Mars). Bernstine. Yes I know too much for my own good, but that's ok. I play the violin, and so get a lot of exposure. __________________ "With these seven easy steps, you, too, can be the authoritarian despot of your own principality. Machiavelli, your road to happiness" "I shoot Flying Monkies!" "Christmas had it coming its what it gets for taking over thanksgiving and threatening halloween with its weapons of mass consumerism" "Death to All Fanatics!" Official RP Action God Lycanthropic Poem "FOR YOU THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE." -Death Krylo and BMG are apparently my bitches.

01-10-2004, 10:25 AM	#14
Illuminatus The Dread Pirate Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Where the wild things are Posts: 1,310	Classical guitar rocks hardcore. I listen to all kinds of CLassical music, but not extensively, mainly because there's a lot I like and a lot I don't and it's hard to find a CD or tape with the right combo. __________________ Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is the extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada. -Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary

01-10-2004, 11:08 PM	#15
Lycanthrope Deus Lupus Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The City of Angels Posts: 2,925	Muffin Mage: Check out bizet. L'arsien suite has a sax in it and its pretty good. Edit: the sax also has a solo. __________________ "With these seven easy steps, you, too, can be the authoritarian despot of your own principality. Machiavelli, your road to happiness" "I shoot Flying Monkies!" "Christmas had it coming its what it gets for taking over thanksgiving and threatening halloween with its weapons of mass consumerism" "Death to All Fanatics!" Official RP Action God Lycanthropic Poem "FOR YOU THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE." -Death Krylo and BMG are apparently my bitches.

01-10-2004, 11:21 PM	#17
FunnyLooking Funny Looking Productions Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: In Your House and Coming to Get You Posts: 431	I love classical, as it by far the best genre of music. Tchaikovsky is personally my favorite composer. Little Russian, Marche Slave, Swan Lake, and 1812 Overture all are totally hardcore. Mendelsohn is pretty awesome, but I've only heard the Violin Concerto. It rules though. No solos for trombone in classical music? Where have you been looking? Oh, a recent classical composer nowadays is Frank Ticheli, who's really good if you've ever heard Blue Shades. It's bordering on jazzy though, making it ever cooler. __________________ Mirrors Always Lie -Funny Looking Productions Sing me to Symmetry Muse of the Mathematic We worship all equations the simple and quadratic Algebra, Geometry, Set and Number Theory All admired equally In our Purgatory and Pathogorean secret society. -Fermat's Last Tango "The Aftermath Last edited by FunnyLooking; 01-10-2004 at 11:24 PM.

01-10-2004, 11:12 PM	#16
Hoboken Guest Posts: n/a	Yeah, I listen to classical music, but I like jazz best. I play trombone and its where you actually get some solos.

01-11-2004, 12:36 AM	#18
Lycanthrope Deus Lupus Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The City of Angels Posts: 2,925	Funny Looking: As for Mendelsohn, yes the violin concerto is cool. You can get a good span of his carrier and its highlights from this list (this is the order he wrote them in, btw): Octet Midsummernight's Dream Overture Fourth Symphony Third Symphony (yes, he did write the fourth before the third. Its a long story) Violin Concerto. He really doesn't sound like violin concerto style until the third symphony though, he kinda came into his own then, but the rest are still cool. He wrote the octet and the overture when he was 16. Mozart wrote his first major noteworthy piece when he was 21. __________________ "With these seven easy steps, you, too, can be the authoritarian despot of your own principality. Machiavelli, your road to happiness" "I shoot Flying Monkies!" "Christmas had it coming its what it gets for taking over thanksgiving and threatening halloween with its weapons of mass consumerism" "Death to All Fanatics!" Official RP Action God Lycanthropic Poem "FOR YOU THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE." -Death Krylo and BMG are apparently my bitches.

01-11-2004, 03:00 AM	#19
Bezo Shinobu Maehara Fanboy Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 357	I wish my MP3.com page was still up so I could show you guys my stuff. Oh well, hopefully I'll find a new host soon. __________________ Random Cool Quote: "Only one who renounces everything possesses the strength to transcend anything." Trema, Final Fantasy X-2 Not So Random Link: Come Check Out My Deviant Art

01-11-2004, 08:50 PM	#20
Lycanthrope Deus Lupus Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The City of Angels Posts: 2,925	Oh well... I suppose I could, if I tried really hard, find some way of recording my pieces. Problem is that I write mostly orchestral music, and, well, if you've ever tried converting a midi file into an audio file when your midi system is incompattible with your audio recording software, you know what I'm talking about. __________________ "With these seven easy steps, you, too, can be the authoritarian despot of your own principality. Machiavelli, your road to happiness" "I shoot Flying Monkies!" "Christmas had it coming its what it gets for taking over thanksgiving and threatening halloween with its weapons of mass consumerism" "Death to All Fanatics!" Official RP Action God Lycanthropic Poem "FOR YOU THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE." -Death Krylo and BMG are apparently my bitches.