I'm not so concerned with spiting Poly as to suggest John Cage is a composer of any kind, however ironic the sentiment may be.
Cameron Phillips
>boulez
hello cia!
Isaiah Morris
fuck OFF poly!
Jonathan James
Meh, I agree. This is why poly may win this time.
Hunter Clark
>can't get past the melody stage >new melodies just keep piling up
Brody Russell
write simultaneous melodies
Adam Hughes
Not everyone can be a composer
David Johnson
what do you guys think of this album
William Reyes
No, I suppose not but if you just give up on everything you want to do then suicide becomes the necessary conclusion of your worldview.
Jacob Long
And that's when user realized his fate as a page-turner for a third-rate pianist.
Ethan Cruz
I think making a thread about some random guy on youtube using his real identity is not only autistic as fuck, its an invasion of privacy. Fuck you, OP.
A composer who posts frequently on /classical/. One of the few, if only, tripfags still on here. He posts stuff by semi-obscure composers like Martinů and Schnittke, and chimes in with his two cents concerning composition, theory, etc. I appreciate his input and don't understand why some strongly dislike him (unless it's just a meme) as he doesn't do anything to really provoke anyone.
Dominic Phillips
what are some of his works.
Joseph Davis
He has a soundcloud page someone posted with his stuff on it. I don't have a bookmark of it but someone can probably post it. I didn't listen to any of it so I don't have an opinion on it. At least he's actually writing shit and putting it out there unlike me and probably most of everyone else on here.
lol I'm not Poly. I don't like Schnittke at all. Though I do appreciate the exposure people like Poly give to lesser knowns like him and Martinu and Rautavaara, otherwise I'd only listen to the common practice people and 20th/21st century meme composers
Cameron Jackson
Found another Japanese composer of some interest, Toshi Ichiyanagi
>it's the fugue guy HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA >muh musical gestures HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
but for real he's not bad. I would encourage him to be more adventurous but everyone has their own style, so what cha gonna do.
Carter Brooks
He doesn't have a style. Half his shit is academic fugues and the other half is Muhly-tier popist garbo
>mfw his symphony
Colton Walker
Don't mind me, just being the most ostentatious instrument.
Christian Long
What's the symphony that sounds like "Happy Together" by The Turtles. I know there is some symphony with a big cadenza that sounds like the "I couldn't see me" part. Its by Scriabin or something I think.
Is there any music more pretentious than classical?
Cooper Rodriguez
Pop
Logan Richardson
How do you reckon?
Adam Cooper
Lets talk about Bach. What are his essential works? As someone that's a beginner I'm trying to branch out and learn more. Some of the pieces already I know of include his Toccata and Fugue, of which I enjoy this arrangement for lute by Edin Karamazov:
Some of his pieces I see mentioned are his Art of Fugue, Well Tempered Clavier, and his English and French suites, but these compositions are so vast, is it important to listen to it all or are there select works that are recommended? There was also a concerto of his for two harpsichords I heard, I liked it but I haven't been able to find it since I heard it that day.
Zachary Reed
>muh mastering >muh postmodern relativity >I'm literally an artist >Hey everyone, look at what I like! >I like to antagonize people who listen to less popular music
Caleb Martin
>What are his essential works?
None of them
David Collins
>As someone that's a beginner I'm trying to branch out and learn more Skip Bach, go straight to Romanticism
Hudson Young
...
Dylan Gutierrez
>Romanticism that's not how you spell CPE Bach
Josiah Nguyen
I'm in love with Chopin. Who else would I like? Well known names are fine cause I don't know shit.
From the comments section: "One of most interesting aural experiences I've had, and almost apian. You can see and smell beeswax altar candles, but their silence hides the flurry and fervid ergonomics of their origins. This symphony is like a liturgical homage to unheard hive life, when all we've known is utility: candles and honey!"
>Seixas >Listening to a guy named after a playstation controller
Oliver Clark
This is pretty good, even if it is just another Jap Messiaen epigone. Way better than Gershwin, Copland, Glass, Cage, Riley, Feldman, Reich, and all the other jokesters in the American "canon", if you can even call their shithouse a canon.
Carson Rodriguez
What are Beethoven's essential works? The only ones that I am familiar with that are worthy of mentioning are his Appassionata and Moonlight Sonata
>In 1967 [Leonard Bernstein] claimed that it is ‘only after we have experienced all this through the smoking ovens of Auschwitz, the frantically bombed jungles of Vietnam, through Hungary, Suez, the Bay of Pigs, the farce-trial of Sinyavsky and Daniel, the refuelling of the Nazi machine, the murder in Dallas, the arrogance of South Africa, the Hiss-Chambers travesty, the Trotskyite purges, Black Power, Red Guards, the Arab encirclement of Israel, the plague of McCarthyism, the Tweedledum armaments race—only after all this can we finally listen to Mahler’s music and understand that it foretold all.’ What did he mean by this?
