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Re: Classical music lovers- what is the best musical period?
I've always found most boroque to be very mathmatical and not very expressive. I don't like very modern music because often it isn't very musical sounding to me.
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9/4/2005, 12:36 pm
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Re: Classical music lovers- what is the best musical period?
I don't like music theory myself 
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9/7/2005, 8:08 am
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Re: Classical music lovers- what is the best musical period?
On revisiting this poll I must comment that my opinion of Schoenberg has changed. Now I'm a huge fan. And I can say that in sprechgesang too  .
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9/29/2005, 4:45 pm
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Re: Classical music lovers- what is the best musical period?
You should really try some other English composers if you like Elgar, like Frank Bridge and Ralph Vaughan Williams. An English composer of the same period who wrote a few lovely works for viola and piano - Rebecca Clarke - is worth giving a listen to. I think her Morpheus is the best short peice for viola and piano ever written.
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Re: Classical music lovers- what is the best musical period?
Did Rebecca Clarke write a piano trio?
If it was her, it was very good.
Listen to Benjamin Britten too.
I disagree with the idea that Baroque music is not emotional; it simply expresses emotions in a different way than Romantic music (for instance) does. Baroque composers manipulated the emotional content of their music quite deliberately according to the Doctrine of the Affections; which, sadly, I know very little about; but which sets out formulae for representing emotions (eg- an ascending figure represents happiness; the tritone represents the Devil, certain keys mean certain things (and, before the advent of equal temperament, different keys sounded vastly different and would have had quite different aesthetic and emotional effects)) and also covered the use of musical rhetoric.
While it is true that the music of this period is very precise and mathematically ordered, in my opinion this adds to its appeal. Following the threads of a good Baroque work adds the pleasure of an intellectual exercise to the pleasures of emotional and aesthetic experience. Of course, a well-constructed work will always provide a rich, satisfying experience in these three areas (which is why I detest pop music, as it only provides me with sensory-motor stimulation).
For the exemplar of this type of well-constructed work, go and listen to Bach. His music shows a sense of movement and purpose; all of his works have a sense of shape and direction, and, if we listen to his music, we find that it is for the simplest of reasons, those being:
His harmonic language. Bach is a master of manipulating his harmonies to shape the rise and fall of emotion; of tension and release.
The fact that he always keeps the rhythm moving: in particular, whenever there is a major cadence, a line will almost always begin movement.
(This next point is only an observation based on my listening. I am fairly certain it is an accurate one; however; I will have to study some scores of Bach's to verify it)
The fact that he avoids the root-position tonic chord until the final chord of the piece or movement.
These factors combine to make music that seems to move forward; to propel itself inorexably towards its final cadence.
I'll stop going on and on now....
--- Breathing is important! If you don't breathe, your sound will deteriorate, your phrasing will suffer, and you will die.
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