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How many people are going about life listening to music without realizing just how good it can be? I never realized how good music could be until I listened to pic rel. How many people are listening to top 40 on autopilot and only kind of enjoying it, but not knowing how much more they could enjoy their music?
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>>129927730
99% of the population.
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>>129927730
The rat race folks at large
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>>129927730
Most classical is good music, but it's held back by the limited instrumentation and weak rhythms. And yes, I know there are exceptions, but most exceptions are unlistenable modern art crap. Jazz improved on classical by adding strong rhythms, and jazz fusion improved on jazz by adding variety to the instrumentation. Despite this, I listen to more classical than jazz fusion simply because there's so much good classical out there.
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>>129928542
Classical music is infinitely more inclusive in its instrumentation than Jazz or Jazz fusion. How can you even think that between Bach and Wagner there is a lack of timbral diversity? Just an insanely ignorant opinion. It's the same with rhythm. An enormous diversity in the handling of rhythm. And you think Brahms and Stravinsky are lacking in strong rhythms? You really need to study classical music more.
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Listening to Gesang der Juenglinge and feeling so above the hylic dregs of earth my propellor beanie is keeping me in the clouds
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>>129927730
Tchaikovsky is pretty mid tho
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>>129930904
t. Pleb
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Classical is literally elevator and background music.
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>>129928629
>infinitely more inclusive in its instrumentation
It lacks the most important instruments (excluding gimmick compositions nobody listens to):
>electric guitar
>bass guitar
>synthesizer
>drum kit
Jazz fusion uses all these while retaining the harmonic sophistication of jazz, making it objectively the best genre.

>And you think Brahms and Stravinsky are lacking in strong rhythms?
Compared to rock/metal/EDM, yes.
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>>129931263
Stravinsky is more rhythmically complex than 99% of rock music. Only some metal and prog rock is even in the same ballpark.
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>>129927763
99% of the population aren’t listening to music, anon. certainy not shitty us chart music. zoomers are as broke as boomers with the cynicism
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>>129927730
When you say "good", do you mean the symphony itself, or this particular interpretation by Leonard Bernstein (and the New York Philharmonic)?

And yes, it's a huge difference, and your intelligence will be judged depending on how you answer my question,
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>>129931291
>rhythmically complex
Strong rhythm = loud repetitive banging noises. Complexity doesn't matter. Loud repetitive banging noises make music exciting. Classical cannot do this properly because concert halls have too much reverb.
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>>129931559
So you're just complaining that classical isn't rock music?
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>>129927730
Post yt link please! I wanna listen to this but I see so many different versions on YouTube. I don't know which one I should pick.
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>>129931559
it's called a refined taste. Maybe you think putting ten spoons of sugar in your coffee tastes great, but you cover up the taste of coffee, Maybe you think, soaking everything in ketchup tastes great, but it tastes only like ketchup if you do that.
Everything deep and good needs a bit of patience and effort to get into. The solution is not to force yourself to enjoy it, though. You'll realize when your time has come.
I couldn't get into classical music as well, now I think there's nothing better and more sincere.
And I always thought that it's just unlikely that people who dedicate their life to music and have the deepest understanding of it find enjoyment in music that is in some way mediocre to rock music. That's actually laughable.
Rock and Pop have hardly anything to offer that classical music doesn't do better at least somewhere.
I listen to rock and pop as well, but to very selected groups and pieces that can somehow convey a similarily sincere feeling and message.
The Beethoven piano sonatas alone give you enough enjoyment for a lifetime.
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>>129933634
>piano sonatas
Solo piano is not enjoyable. Piano isn't expressive enough to stand alone. It's intentionally designed this way. The action disconnects the keys from the hammers each time so all you can control is how hard to hit them (pedals are just a performance aid to simulate extra fingers, half-pedaling is a rarely used extended technique). Piano concertos > piano sonatas.
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>>129927730
Seems to me that you were always listening to shit music
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>>129927730
boooring zzzzzz
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>>129933053
Listen to OP's pic
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>>129927730
Damn this was fucking boring. What to listen for something similar to waltz of flowers
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>>129927730
>How many people are going about life listening to music without realizing just how good it can be? I never realized how good music could be until I listened to pic rel.
I'm a big Tchaikovsky fan but never warmed up to the Pathétique.

I prefer the ballets, swan lake for example. And the concertos.
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>>129928542
>Most classical is good music, but it's held back by the limited instrumentation and weak rhythms.
limited instrumentation... yeah man, unlike jazz that uses drums, bass, piano, saxophone or trumpet, and the occasional guitar or organ. Unlimited instrumentation in jazz!! /s

go away kid
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>>129933929
>Solo piano is not enjoyable. Piano isn't expressive enough to stand alone
Solo piano is all I listen to (not really, but I do prefer it over orchestral and ensembles).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L31ftDLTlog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mhp7lrYjTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQDKjDeV5W0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE413i1eAso
>half-pedaling is a rarely used extended technique
Absolutely not. Only shitters don't pay attention to how much they're pedalling.
My piano teacher's teacher wrote a book and developed their own notation to indicate even finer degrees of pedaling than just full, half, and off.
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>>129938584
>drums
The most important instrument of all. BTFOs orchestra percussion.
>bass
Orchestral upright bass is usually played bowed, which misses the essential bass character.
>piano
Not a good instrument, but it's rarely played solo so the other instruments can cover its weaknesses.
>saxophone
The king of woodwinds. Second only to electric guitar in expressiveness. Rarely used in classical.
>trumpet
Mediocre brass, but jazz at least uses mutes for increased expression, which classical almost never does.
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>>129939482
There's like 5 jazz fusion bands. Check and mate.
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>>129927730
i think all classical music is shit quite honestly. just because you really enjoy it doesnt make it superior to other forms of music. also im an old fag been collecting music since 1990 so im not a little kid
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>>129933929
yes, that makes the piano a very special instrument, because it creates an illusion of dynamic. That doesn't mean it's not enjoyable. It's very dumb to think millions of educated people finding deep enjoyment in Bach's, Beethoven's and Schubert's piano works somehow fake their emotions. In fact chamber music is the deeper music, because it allows composers a more direct way to convey their ideas.
The piano has the limitations that you describe, but the art of playing the piano is to overcome these limitations and make them into a strength, that strength being to create an illusion that can transport any emotion or musical idea.
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>>129939736
The piano didn't exist during Bach's lifetime, lol.
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>How many people are going about life listening to music without realizing just how good it can be?
Holy main character syndrome lmao
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This place has never been about music or quality anyhow, over the last few months or so it's showing, before the sewer flooded here this place was a murky swamp too acidic to have any lifeform, now there's the sewer as well, but "they" aren't doing anything worth impression.



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