I'm not sure if what he posted was more accessible for early listeners or more complex. Thanks for the reply.
Jacob Perry
as a rule of thumb, apart from inclination, follow a more or less chronological order when listening, as it might help to hear what composers were incorporating and reacting against
Because demographically speaking we're pretty similar more likely than not, and that might mean that we enjoy the same stuff.
This way I'll have a sort of shortcut to finding stuff I like.
Austin Murphy
people disagree about everyone here
Easton Parker
I personally would recommend you to pick either a random composer or go with the most famous ones. (Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven, Mahler, etc.) "This circle" will shit on everything. Except renaissance, but that's because the memers' taste isn't good enough.
If you want specific recs about a composer be sure to ask.
Care to elaborate or point me in the right direction?
Kevin Thompson
Mozart's fame derives from the fact that he was a child prodigy and died at an early age. What about Haydn, J.C. Bach, Gluck, etc.?
To be honest, I cannot give you an accurate response as to why I consider Mozart's music so good, I am no musicologist. I just like pretty much everything about him. His orchestration is superb, his harmony is really good and his melodies are wonderfully captivating and lyric (at least to me).
Ryan Reyes
That's something to consider.
I thought Bach was famous because he wrote The Well Tempered Clavier
Ayden Jenkins
J.C. Bach is one of J.S. Bach's sons.
J.S. Bach is famous for his fugues and contrapuntal works, mainly.
Henry Brooks
>Gluck I want this "Gluck is a good composer" meme to die.
Nathan Rodriguez
Do you listen to Bach? What're some of your favorite pieces?
youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY Is my favorite, but it's all I've listened to from him. It is included in the end of the movie rollerball, and I associate it with the power of an dystopian elite.
Samuel Wright
Gluck is great though. Singlehandedly reformed opera and was a huge inspiration for Mozart, Weber and Wagner.
Isaiah Hughes
I don't really listen to Bach that much. I can tell you what I enjoy the most:
Goldberg Variations Well-Tempered Clavier (Books I & II) Six Partitas For Solo Keyboard Toccata in C minor BWV 911
That I've heard that is really good:
Mass in B minor The Art of Fugue Six Cello suites Six Partitas For Solo Violin Most of his Cantatas
No this is terrible advice. The harmonically heavy high Baroque is obviously not going to appeal to a beginner more than the simple melodies of the classical era.
Do I play F sixteenth note, skip the E flat, and then just play the rest?
Ryan King
its a grace note. play it just before the E, as if its squeezed in between the bars. the Eb will be played at the exact start of the bar, but the F will precede it by a fraction of a second
Carter Moore
No expert but I believe you play the F and Eb as two 16th notes. I see this in performances of Mozart all the time.
Hudson White
ok actually I would like an explanation as to why people do this with Mozart
William Morales
thats fucking gay how am i supposed to count half a second
Hudson Sullivan
Try using your brain, or getting one.
William Hall
you shouldn't have to count anything, "fraction of a second" is just an expression.
Listen to some recordings to see what it sounds like, we're not your piano teacher
Hunter Ortiz
Reminder that Chopin is an underrated master of counterpoint and 2deep4plebs like Gould and poly
I agree, it just sounds weird when it's tied over to those three eighth notes. The next note is the upper neighbor so where exactly the trill stops and the next note begins is unclear. It's posthumous for a reason I suppose.
>>being a meme makes something bad The above statement not being true in general doesn't stop it from being true in this particular instance.
Nolan Wilson
Fucking amazing user. Thank you so fucking much!
Austin Bennett
The only way to keep this general alive is to relentlessly shit on G*rman composers.
Connor Moore
Bump
Oliver Rivera
>not liking Vivaldi Have a heart.
Adrian Harris
I've been checking out HIP recordings recently. I dig the tuning, I dig the often faster tempi, I dig the lack of vibrato, but holy hell, the period instruments, especially the brass, sound like shit. This has got to be the absolute worst part about the le HIP meme. I have yet to hear a single recording where the brass hasn't sounded downright vulgar and awful.
They should just take period practices but play them on modern instruments.
How can anyone tell if this comment is in the key of sarcasm?
Also:
How DO keys work?
Kevin Williams
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Logan Murphy
lmao, this general.
It's akin to somebody starting a "rock music" general and everybody proceeding to discuss Radiohead, The Beatles and Led Zepplin with varying degrees of superficiality. You're all so, so embarrassing.
Cooper Morris
top kekkers!
Thomas Lewis
It's pretty great though.
Michael Wright
>I have nothing to add contribute or get out friendo. no one likes a complainer
They really ought to record more of Palestrina's paraphrase masses. This and the Ave Regina Caelorum mass were both quite exceptional. youtube.com/watch?v=QNAmHM7cbpk