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offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-04-13 14:22 [#01141029]
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Whats the appeal of this genre ? Most of it is cheesy as
hell, and isnt very intresting to listen to ? Modern
electronic music is far more complex, dare I say it ! You
have an open pallet . You can be the whole band in one. No
stupid drummers. Even though drums are cool. You can make a
computer an instrument. Velocity, Timbre, Cutoff, Resonance,
etccc...so why would anyone who is intrested in music claim
that classical music is suprior to TECHNO, drum n bass or
even POP MUSIC?


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:23 [#01141033]
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yes im afraid so, but others might disagree


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:28 [#01141046]
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erik satie

nuff said


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:34 [#01141059]
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ian knoll

nuff said


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-04-13 14:35 [#01141062]
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Can he werk a drum computer like squarepusher can ?


 

offline Komakino from Tan-giers USSR (Russia) on 2004-04-13 14:35 [#01141063]
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boring question.


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:37 [#01141067]
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boring answer.


 

offline Komakino from Tan-giers USSR (Russia) on 2004-04-13 14:38 [#01141070]
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answer?


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:38 [#01141072]
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boring thad smoyer.


 

offline Nora on 2004-04-13 14:38 [#01141073]
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i enjoy classical music, especially when i'm coming down
from drinking. its just the best thing to listen to imo.


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:39 [#01141075]
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erik satie


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:39 [#01141078]
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who the fcuk is that >?


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:40 [#01141082]
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find out


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:42 [#01141084]
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brilliance.


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:44 [#01141089]
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my father


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:45 [#01141091]
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he is a genius, of which i believe there are few


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:46 [#01141093]
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have you ever heard of Thad Smoyer, hes pretty genius.


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:47 [#01141097]
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go for the gymnopedies 1-3 (his most famous work)

then go for the gnossiennes and nocturnes.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-04-13 14:48 [#01141100]
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i wouldn't say it's superior.. or that really any type of
music is.. as long as it is expressing some kind of
emotion.. and when it comes to emotion, classical music
seems to be more focused on melody and less on texture and
non-discernibly-toned rhythmic sounds. in my opinion, melody
is an easier and more powerful means of emotional
expression. the more texture and rhythm oriented music like
"rock", "techno", "pop", etc, usually combine the two
elements.. but sometimes the beats are used to make up for
the less-than-interesting or intense melodic elements. the
"beat" part of the music really caries no real emotional
quality, as in happy, sad, etc... if you disagree, listen to
just a drummer playing a beat.. his/her beat can
sound powerful, it can sound like its meandering in
an off-kilter fashion, or it can sound like it is
maintaining a straightforward pattern that might symbolise
some kind of intensity.. it may be slow and lacklustre.. but
it's not usually possible to convey emotion through rhythm
alone. no one ever says "hey what a sad-sounding beat."
so, what it all boils down to is, all music that uses melody
has the same possibility of expressiveness.. if one is to
add rhythm, it doesn't make the song better or more
expressive, or worse.. it just means that the composition is
relying on a rhythmic element.

..so,
no, classical music doesn't suck.
it's quite good, in my opinion.


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:49 [#01141101]
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i agree, theres advantages and disadvantages to ANY
artform.

theres bad paintings in any style, bad films of any genre.



 

offline celloncllone from anywhere but in (Germany) on 2004-04-13 14:50 [#01141104]
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monoid obviously hasn't listened to any classical yet,
because classical is like fuckin butter on bread......you
gotta have it man. and if you think you don't you're just
some asswit who thinkgs electronic msuic is the answer to
everything


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-13 14:52 [#01141106]
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yeh, i dont view classical so much a genre as i do a time
period.

they did alot with what they had.

if mozart or beethoven were using cubase and dsp's, theyd
put d james and everyone else in their places.


 

offline plaster from splitska 10 on 2004-04-13 14:58 [#01141111]
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i can't believe ur statement monoid...
just tell me why is electronic music so complex than
classical?
if you didn't notice music that we listen is made purely of
well arranged loops with maybe 3 chords and that't,and on
the other hand classical music is somewhat different.
tons of chords are involved,harmonic progressions and
stuff...
not only you gotta have the itch for music like nowdays ,but
you have to know how each instrument works and what are his
caracteristics.
so i have to dissagree with you!



 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2004-04-13 15:00 [#01141115]
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sometimes monoid, likes to go against the grain

i applaud him for that


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-04-13 15:04 [#01141121]
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..not to mention that music wouldn't have the level of
complexity it does today if it wasn't able to build upon the
music of the past, which was complex for its time.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2004-04-13 15:06 [#01141125]
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I admit that most of the time I find Classical music pretty
boring, and the instruments at the time were incredibly
lacking IMHO... but Classical is good for certain
moods/times of day. I don't hate it but I don't love it
either.


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2004-04-13 15:30 [#01141166]
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The instruments are lacking...? The fack?


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-13 15:33 [#01141176]
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"Modern electronic music is far more complex"

yeah right, how much classical have you even listened to
anyway?


 

offline plaster from splitska 10 on 2004-04-13 15:38 [#01141187]
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widen ur horizons zephyr...if you love music you gotta be
able to take it as it is,and not judge it.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-04-13 15:47 [#01141216]
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Monoid, you suck.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-13 15:48 [#01141221]
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I love classical music.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-13 16:03 [#01141266]
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I really do love it. Some of the most beautiful musiv I've
ever heard is classical.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-04-13 16:45 [#01141316]
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it is a boring trick, Thad.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-04-13 16:46 [#01141318]
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..and what about modern classical music?

to keep close to the electronic genre - Cage, Stockhausen,
Xenakis, Reich, etc.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-04-13 16:51 [#01141323]
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yes, a lot of the modern stuff directly influenced the
fringes of electronic that we know and love...

best to be a peace with all music, because you maximize the
number of brilliant minds you come into contact with


 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2004-04-13 17:11 [#01141350]
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classical music was composed to be heard live, not canned on
a record or cd. beethoven's ninth symphony is a good
example.

as tibbar (i think) pointed out, classical is not a genre or
style at all. it refers to western music of a period
spanning hundreds of years.

to say that classical music sucks (implying that "classical"
represents a specific style or genre) or lacks complexity is
to reveal your ignorance of classical music.

that said, 99% of classical music, and 99% of electronic
music, is not interesting to me. you like what you like,
but i'd guess that monoid has probably heard about .00001
percent of existing recorded classical music.

thus concludes another episode of plaidzebra's classical
corner...


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-04-13 17:12 [#01141352]
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in fact, I would be surprised if Monoid has heard more than
the same percentage of modern and/or classical electronic
music.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2004-04-14 00:10 [#01141595]
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just in their tonal color and what they were used for...
Pianos send better now, guitars sound better now, brass
(probably) sounds better now... I'm saying the instruments
have been improved upon repeatedly, and I'm not even going
to start on what new doors electric instruments, especially
synths, have opened. Also, of the classical I have heard,
most of the melodies do not please me for some reason, I
don't have a problem with classical, but from most (there is
some I do like) it's not really my favorite.

plaster: if by 'not judge it' you mean just indiscriminantly
listen to every piece of music that comes my way and not
decide whether or not I like it, then no.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2004-04-14 00:10 [#01141597]
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pianos send = sound*


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-04-14 00:21 [#01141599]
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Satie is way over-rated by certain sections of the ''IDM''
world, who overlook far superior composers, just because
Dickhead James happened to mention him once


 

offline Bremzen from utrecht (Netherlands, The) on 2004-04-14 01:24 [#01141639]
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yet, Satie stil roxxor's (and in my opninion, Dickhead does
certainly NOT! HA! there! I said it!)

"and when it comes to emotion, classical music
seems to be more focused on melody and less on texture and
non-discernibly-toned rhythmic sounds."
NO! VARESE! Ligeti! Xenakis! VARESE! Stockhausen! Varese!
VARESE!
not that these composers are actual "classical", but since
you all call Satie a classical composer i figured wtf...


 

offline Skink from A cesspool in eden on 2004-04-14 01:25 [#01141641]
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Long answer to this question:

NO !


 

offline brokephones from Londontario on 2004-04-14 01:26 [#01141642]
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I dont like putting a blanket over an entire genre. So Ill
say "splorchnarf" instead...


 

offline Bremzen from utrecht (Netherlands, The) on 2004-04-14 01:35 [#01141652]
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that pretty much wraps this thread up!
haha


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-04-14 01:54 [#01141663]
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I really like some classical music, particularly the
more minimal stuff (Air on a G string, Barber's Adagio for
Strings, etc.) but I agree with you that some of is quite
cheesy. Almost like overwrought Trance/Dance breakdowns in
some pieces, with the inevitable; intro, build, fade, build,
big crescendo, play out. It's almost like the pop music of
its time, even if it is more complex. I do like some of the
full orchestra/choir "powerful" stuff like Orff and
Beethoven's 5th and 9th.

It also does my head in when people refuse to acknowledge
things like Mount St. Michaels etc. are probably a lot
closer in sound to the way RDJ intended, than the way a
classical composer intended for a piece to sound when played
by an orchestra (sheet music, even with additional
instructions written on it is inherently limited). I mean,
you get things like soloists adding their own bits in,
conductors/orchestra leaders "editing" (primitive remixes?)
the piece, More or less sections being used than intended
(eg people using brass where none was specified).

There is no way that there can be a "definitive" version of
a classical piece, the way the original composer intended,
unless of course it's modern and the composer gets his
orchestra to record a version and declares that "how he
intended it". But, a lot of modern classical music is gash
and nowhere near as good as the old stuff... I've not heard
anything more recent than from the 1930s that compares to
the greats.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-04-14 02:00 [#01141666]
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certain classical composers (not among the first) follow too
many rules when making their music. This results in muzak.
The ones who DON'T follow too many rules made GREAT music!


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-04-14 02:09 [#01141673]
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Yes, I blame the really rigid rules of musical composition
at the time more than the composers themselves. We've got to
remember that classical visual artists (painters, engravers,
etc.) didn't really stop striving for photo-realism until
the camera was invented.


 

offline Torture Garden from Feelin' 2Pacish on 2004-04-14 06:38 [#01141946]
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Everything that is played today can be traced back to
classical in some way or another, I'm talking about harmony,
rhythm and melody here. Modern classical is great. Steve
Reich is incredible, Schoenberg, Arvo Part, Zappa, Zorn etc.
Then you have a lot of the more adventurous progressive
bands like Art Zoyd, Univers Zero & Blast. Many of those
bands are based around composition.
If you find some classical to be cheesy, fine. But I think
there is something for everyone, not just in classical but
in every genre.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-04-14 06:41 [#01141954]
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how can you put Frank Zappa in "classical?"


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-04-14 06:44 [#01141959]
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Rachmaninov would rape your pussy techno bitchez in the ass,
bitch.


 


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