Classical Music Appreciation Thread

[Carnage187]

I think classical music, or any music that pays attention to individual "voices," is great music, if not pure.

I'm not sure how many of you like it since it's basically a "sit-down" and enjoy the music type of genre.

Hopefully we get some quality youtubez, record links, and responses.

I'm writing a paper for school so I'll just start this off with some of my favorite pieces.
Not only are they relaxing but they are great to smoke to :classic:



Cavatina from the motion picture Deer Hunter by Stanley Meyers (performed by John Williams, the guitarist)



Maurice Ravel-Pavane for Dead Princess



Gabriel Faure-OP 50 Pavane



Erik Satie-Gymnopedie no.1

IF YOU WANT FULL RECORDS, A LOT CAN BE FOUND ON THIS BLOG

http://ladiscotecaclasica.blogspot.com/

Post some of your favorites!

 

[Carnage187]

Mille Regretz-Josquin Des Prez

This is a renaissance piece. This type of music is strictly contrapuntal. It was after Bach that composers started paying attention to chordal aspects of music.
super cool story

 

[Dabrowski]

While he was doing gospel, he recorded r&b under an alias to protect himself from those who considered r&b be secular (religious folks). It didn't work because many people knew it was him singing on the track.

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

If you dont like classical music, then you shouldn't listen to music as all.

I know, that's a bit harsh. And I am actually being a bit facetious. I love classical music...the Baroque age is my taste. I really like the harpsichord.

 

[Carnage187]

yeah the baroque period was definitely golden. I'm not sure how baroque scarlatti is but this is one of my favorites by him.



and then of course there is Bach





also, can dabrowski be banned now?

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

Scarlatti was a composer in the time period of Baroque, but was transitional in the Classical style and considered to be one of the "founders" of it.

 

[Carnage187]

some french minimalism



this song is on the first link after the album cover. All 3 of the gymnopedies are amazing.

disc 1 http://www.mediafire.com/?5dmadwzjqit
disc 2 http://www.mediafire.com/?oommmzedxno
disc 3 http://www.mediafire.com/?nmnymmhgm5t

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie.
Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. Later, he also referred to himself as a "phonometrician" (meaning "someone who measures sounds") preferring this designation to that of "musician", after having been called "a clumsy but subtle technician" in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911.[1]
In addition to his body of music, Satie also left a remarkable set of writings, having contributed work for a range of publications, from the dadaist 391 to the American Vanity Fair. Although in later life he prided himself on always publishing his work under his own name, in the late nineteenth century he appears to have used pseudonyms such as Virginie Lebeau and François de Paule in some of his published writings.
Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.