RE: (western) classical music discussion
July 26, 2016 at 8:26 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2016 at 8:28 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
For a long time now I've been struggling to find any new composers for many years now but I've struck a rich vein that I am exploring. And it's not Russian either!
I've started listening to composers from the 20th Century. I was always sceptical of Arnold Berg because the one piece I had was his famous Violin concerto and it sounded discordant for the sake of it. But I realised, I just find the piece too depressing rather than discordant. And I had never really given Schoenberg a proper go. But I've really started to listen to Schoenberg a lot more and especially Bartok, I've bought Messiaen's turangalila symphony and next will buy some Schnittke. I first heard about Bartok on researching Shostokovich's string quartets. And after listening to Bartok's string quartets I decided to try the rest of his music. I'm so glad that I did.
It's not the easiest music to listen to but it's complex enough to stay interesting.
Which has come at just the right time because the person next to me at work chews gum all day with his mouse open and I need to listen to my music in order to drown out his incessant sucking noises.
Oddly enough I've also really got into Rage against the Machine's first album. I bought it when I was a Heavy Metaller growing bored of the genre, starting to mellow out as a person and first started developing a taste for Classical. I had never really liked RATM. But now the leftist revolutionary anger really appeals to me yet I haven't really been listening to any heavy rock for the last two decades. Very strange.
I've started listening to composers from the 20th Century. I was always sceptical of Arnold Berg because the one piece I had was his famous Violin concerto and it sounded discordant for the sake of it. But I realised, I just find the piece too depressing rather than discordant. And I had never really given Schoenberg a proper go. But I've really started to listen to Schoenberg a lot more and especially Bartok, I've bought Messiaen's turangalila symphony and next will buy some Schnittke. I first heard about Bartok on researching Shostokovich's string quartets. And after listening to Bartok's string quartets I decided to try the rest of his music. I'm so glad that I did.
It's not the easiest music to listen to but it's complex enough to stay interesting.
Which has come at just the right time because the person next to me at work chews gum all day with his mouse open and I need to listen to my music in order to drown out his incessant sucking noises.
Oddly enough I've also really got into Rage against the Machine's first album. I bought it when I was a Heavy Metaller growing bored of the genre, starting to mellow out as a person and first started developing a taste for Classical. I had never really liked RATM. But now the leftist revolutionary anger really appeals to me yet I haven't really been listening to any heavy rock for the last two decades. Very strange.
