I'm an accordion conservatory student and I have to arrange a piece for accordion solo/chamber ensemble that includes accordion. Last year my teacher made me work on "in the steppes of asia central". Do you have any recommendation?
Adam Taylor
Did Shostakovich skip every lesson on how not to modulate like a barbarian?
Juan Cruz
Can we have an audio file of that? Sounds fun. As to recommendations, how bout something from mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition?
Noah Thomas
>end of a long work >second last movement is grave >last is allegro
I saw mahler 5 at the DSO about a month ago. was a great performance, david cooper on principal horn, who recently won the position of principal in the berlin philharmonic.
Bentley Harris
P E T Z O L D
Jacob Perry
nice
Leo Sanders
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Gabriel Martin
how do I into underrated mozart
Ryan Martinez
>those digits
Jack Cooper
>it's real
holy shit
at least he won't be missed as a Mussorgsky interpreter
What's up with CPE bach 'flute concerto' and 'cello concerto' in A minor? Did somebody just decided to use the flute instead of the cello? Preferences?
>not knowing they're all based on a folk melody Pleb.
Chase Hernandez
Proof? Thought so, retard.
Evan Thomas
Second link is unavailable. It is just me? >General folder #2. Mostly Romantic up to 20th century/modern, but also includes Bach and Mozart subfolders mega.co.nz/#F!lIh3GRpY!piUs-QdhZACFt2hGtX39Rw
>What does it mean for a song to be in "A Major" or "B Minor?"
Levi Walker
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Jordan Sanders
Wait wait wait I just have even more questions
How do I know the scales for each thing? Like B minor. What the hell is the circle of fifths
Actually curious
Explain yourselves you fucking anachronistic dweebs
Benjamin Cruz
You are not ready, initiate.
Robert Mitchell
every major scale has the same order of whole steps and half steps and likewise for minor scales Major scale: WWHWWWH Minor scale: WHWWHWW you can derive all of them from this
circle of fifths can probably be better explained via google but basically you start at c major and go up a fifth and get g major. c major has no sharps or flats and g major has 1 sharp. go up another fifth and you get d major with 2 sharps. then a major with 3, etc. starting from c major and go down a fifth you get f major with 1 flat. then go down again to get b flat major with 2 flats. etc
Noah Parker
>anachronistic dweebs Keys, Scales and the circle of fifths are heavily used in all modern music, especially the popular music you already listen to.
We're not anachronistic because classical music is timeless. Music theory certainly isn't anachronistic - as show by the same fundamentals or music being used 300 years later.
Help a /k/ommando out, Sup Forums. I have a classical music playlist with about 70-80 or so songs on it. Like 50 of them come from one album the London Philharmonic Orchestra put out. It has some great stuff that I love, but it's not enough. I would really like to expand this playlist, but there were so many people who had huge volumes of work that I don't know where to start. Recommend some pieces to add, or some artists to search through, please. Help a /k/ommando find more beauty in pure music that I can clean all my guns to. Here is the playlist for reference. open.spotify.com/user/nickmanley95/playlist/2JhVPIuaRc9vMGQn20OGcL
Brayden Garcia
Ultimate theory of music. It is the only one worthy of a philosopher. Let's start with tempo, and explain why slower music is bound to be worse. Because there's not much complexity in it, since not much happening in it, sonically, at any given moment (this is what it means for music to be slow). Also, better music needs more instruments, again due to complexity, ergo Sinatra is inherently inferior. Sinatra is pop music of the '50s and the '60s, the Britney Spears of his time. Early rap in fact, lol, since his voice is essentially the entire band, dominating to such an extent it may as well be rap. The same with many signers of that era, e.g. Bing Crosby, etc. That's why we talk of singers of that era instead of composers or bands, just like with rap artists. So at one end of the spectrum, at full speech articulation, you have a guy talking really fast, with either no music at all or a simplistic and repetitive background tune to avoid taking attention away from the fast-talker, and at the other end you have opera, where articulation is so faint that the singer can barely be said to be speaking, and where his voice is almost an extra instrument which no one can even understand what it is saying (which is where the libretto comes in). Moving on to theme, the ultimate genre of music is heavy metal, and especially its epic variety, fittingly also called power metal (Nietzsche would have loved this label, for obvious reasons). To make epic music you need an epic subject. Pop starlets sing about kissing boys and Eminem about his mother popping pills — not exactly subjects that anyone could write operas about, if you see my meaning. So how complex could the music to such petty experiences get? If if did get complex, it would clash with the simplicity of the feeling it is trying to convey, so the end result would still be inferior.
Joshua Collins
>slower, simpler tunes are inferior >there is not as much beauty in The Swan as in Vivaldi's Four Seasons because The Swan is slower
Caleb Stewart
>Moonlight Sonata sucks ass compared to Eine Kleine Nachtmusik because it utilises only one instrument
Jason Reed
And finally, there is length. Pop music must by its very nature be brief, since it is so simplistic and repetitive that if it went on for more than a few minutes even its braindead fans would get bored of it. Also, domination of lyrics precisely for the benefit of unmusical people. No lyrics in classical music because it is music. Music is supposed to convey its meaning via melody, which of course must be interpreted for the message (=feeling) to be received, but peasants don't have the attention span or subtlety for that, ergo lyrics are introduced to literally tell the peasants the meaning. Wherever lyrics are introduced they dominate in the listener's ear, to the detriment of the music, because their meaning is easier to interpret. Least dominant in opera, out of all the lyrical forms, which is why opera can be pretty good music. Utterly dominant in rap, which is why rap features such shitty music, usually even stolen from a catchy pop tune, since rappers can't even be bothered to compose anything. Also, lyrics tire you out due to the intensity of the spoken word. Even if Blind Guardian singer Hansi Kürsch could write a song that went for an hour, 1. He wouldn't be able to sing it, 2. His audience would be so tired in the end that they'd feel as if they came out of a lecture hall that, besides the lecture, also blasted heavy music at them for an hour. But it is not only the music that degenerates with the addition of lyrics, but also vice versa, since the requirements of the melody — such as it is, in pop music — constrain the lyrics too, condemning them to simplicity and repetitiveness. I mean, it's not like you can deliver an interesting lecture via song lyrics, which would at least have kept the listeners entertained, so childish, repetitive stuff only, and since repetitive they must be kept brief — which is how we went from hour-long symphonies to three-minute pop songs.
Angel Brooks
TL;DR
Christopher Watson
This just confirms the stereotype that metalfags are the worst
Jaxon Turner
Do you get off of being retarded on the internet?
Andrew Reyes
I ask for help in discovering new classical music to listen to and you clutter up the fucking thread with your insufferable bullshit. Are you actually retarded, or are you just pretending?
Bumping for some help with All suggestions are appreciated
Gavin Green
Sorry Nick, I don't use spotify so can't see your playlist.
Search for some music by the composers on pic related and see what you like
John Scott
That's a pretty good introductory list - a lot of good choices imo. First thing you should do is to find your favourite movements on there that are from bigger works and then listen to the full works. e.g Try listening to Dvorak's 9th symphony in full and not just the second movement - or all of Beethoven 5/Mozart's 40th/Carnival of the Animals. Some of the tagging of the composers on that list isn't very clear which is unfortunate.
Other than that, just look up 'famous pieces by x;' x being the composers on that list you like the most. Don't worry too much about which orchestra is playing or whose conducting, unless you particularly like a piece and feel compelled to listen to multiple interpretations to find out what one you like the most. Try out some of the pieces in the OP link too, look in the Baroque, Classical and Romantic folders.
Also, try listening to your local classical radio station to find new artists.
Cooper Cruz
I only agree that slower minimalist pieces are not as engaging/interesting as those at faster tempi
Jack White
Anyone like my work?
Brandon Cook
I don't know if it's because I'm a pleb but Die Walkure is boring as
Connor White
Picture saved. Thank you Sounds like solid advice. Screenshotted so I won't forget, thanks!
Samuel Bell
Listen to some of the Flying Dutchman. Very easy to get in and listen to a few arias
Cooper Hall
Pieces you have nutted to?
Brayden Morgan
Very much.
Jaxson Barnes
What's wrong with his modulations? Or should I say, what's not to like about them?
Connor Turner
>ctrl+F "praise be to our Lord and Savior Messiaen, for his name sounds vaguely like 'Messiah' which means that his music is basically God-tier by default" >zero results wtf y'all
Aiden Myers
I seriously can't find a decent recording of Haydn - Symphony no. 39 and I don't want to rip it off youtube.
Colton Watson
>praise be to our Lord and Savior Messiaen, for his name sounds vaguely like 'Messiah' which means that his music is basically God-tier by default That really isn't funny.
Matthew Taylor
not Pinnock?
Chase Nguyen
>cleaning guns try unaccompanied cello pieces, you can start by looking up yo yo ma/bach later you can try schoenberg
