What Music are you listening to right now?--The Second Verse

[jacqulina 162]

trance mix here 

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Brahms - Symphony No. 2 in D major

[timmie 988]

Gruppo Sportivo - Beep Beep Love

 

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Camille Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C minor

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

The Lovin' spoonful - Summer in the city.

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 1 - Heartlessly interpreted by Glenn Gould.

[Odainsaker 2,137]

"Tackey & Tsubasa 5th Anniversary Premium Live" concert DVD, from which I am currently now liking...
 
"Kamen"  -「仮面」-  "Mask"
 
"Aisōkyoku (Serenāde)"  -「愛想曲(セレナーデ)」-  "Serenade"

[jacqulina 162]

melody from heaven i love this tune

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Hayen: Symphony No. 101.

[ThirtyThree 141]

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

[jacqulina 162]

mixed techno not hard soft.,

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Asking Alexandria - To the stage

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Schubert: Quintet for Strings

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

The Canadian Hymn

 

I know metal, classical musik and hymns are a strange mix of taste of music 

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

^ why would you think that?  Music is music, and noise is noise.  In some cases, some people's music is other people's noise.

 

Currently hearing: Mozart: Piano concerto no. 26.

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

^ no, this was just something I realised for myself. It's quite rare somebody likes so different kinds of music. And, oh I forgot film scores/music

[ThirtyThree 141]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxmt4PX6gto

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 -- The Emperor.

 

This is one of the pieces of music I'd take to a desert island exile.

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Asking Alexandria - Not The American Average

 

Oh yeah, Beethoven, Brahms, Grieg 

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

There is no doubt that Brahms was Beethoven's successor.  Did you know he was so bowled over by Beethoven's ninth symphony that he did getn't up the gumption to write his first until he was 34 years old?  Then he produced an absolute master piece.

 

Currently hearing: Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E minor.

[Lindsay Tobias 0]

The foggy dew by the chieftains(the long black Vail)

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Cartellieri: Symphony No. 1.

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Oh, I finally found someone to talk about classical music 

[Ded 30]

'Ambitions' - Donkeyboy

 

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Oh, I finally found someone to talk about classical music 

Anytime, my friend.  What do you like?  I like pretty much everything from Pythagoras, Hildegard von Bingen, Claudio Monteverdi, and forward to modern times.  I am not much on metal.  How do you feel about pentatonic music (e.g. Amazing Grace)?

 

I also like music parody.  Did you ever hear Anna Russel's 22 minute Ring of the Neibelungen?  How about Peter Schickele (a,k.a. P.D.Q. Bach)?

 

Currently listening to: Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major.

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

 

Oh, I finally found someone to talk about classical music 

Anytime, my friend.  What do you like?  I like pretty much everything from Pythagoras, Hildegard von Bingen, Claudio Monteverdi, and forward to modern times.  I am not much on metal.  How do you feel about pentatonic music (e.g. Amazing Grace)?

 

I also like music parody.  Did you ever hear Anna Russel's 22 minute Ring of the Neibelungen?  How about Peter Schickele (a,k.a. P.D.Q. Bach)?

 

Currently listening to: Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major.

 

 

Well well, I like classicmusic, film scores and metal. Tha's basically what I like best. I play piano and guitar myself so my interest really goes into two different directions. And I'm also very interested in the techniques behind composing and arranging music, especially movie scores (because they managed to be a mix of both classical music and instruments mixed up with modern elements and the ability to give music some more of a character) About pentatonic music, I do not really know any examples, I know the pentatonic scale however. (and I know Pentatonix which is an awesome a cappella band). I also like some of modern music pieces (except fomr metal). What I don't like is when music turns into some kind of run-of-the-mill music (I always love challenging, interesteing music like Bohemian Rhapsody) The most challenging piece I've ever played was Fantasia in D minor (Although I'm not a fan of Mozart) And yes, music parodies can be somewhat entertaining

However, what do you mean by Pythagors and Hildegard von Bingen (I didn't know they where into music)

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Pythagoras invented the pentatonic scale.  (Same guy who is responsible for all your trouble in Geometry.)  Pentatonic music is heard in many of the tunes brought to America by the black slaves in the 17th century.  Much of that genre survives today, the example I gave being one of the most prevalent (Amazing Grace).  Since you play piano, you must have noticed the whole thing can be played on the black keys (the pentatonic scale).  The well tempered scale of thirteen notes was invented about the time of J.S. Bach hence his book The Well Tempered Clavier.

 

Hildegard von Bingen was a nun in the 11th century.  She composed a lot of church music and set the tone for it for centuries.  See the wiki reference for her bio.  I am heavily into the vocal literature so that is probably why I know about her.  In my current deteriorated condition I have become a bargain-basement counter tenor, but I used to have a nice tenor/baritone voice when I was active.  Asthma has pretty much wrecked by ability to sing some of the melismatic stuff I used to do.

 

In any case, I am rather into appreciation of vocal and keyboard literature from around 1600 to the present.

 

My music satellite feed from the cable company seems to be off this morning, so I am now listening to a playlist on Rhythmbox.  Currently the Toreador Song from Act II of Carmen by Georges Bizet sung by Bryn Terfel.  This is a set of ripped tracks from a CD titled simply 'Bryn'.

 

In fact, it just ended and the next track is Shenandoah.

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Hah, yeah I know Pythagoras and Hildegard von Bingen but I didn't know they had anything to do with music. Also, vocal (classical) music is not really my thing (Operas and stuff).

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Well, if you liked the recent productions of Les Miserables, then tell me what you have against opera?  And what did you think of Cats?

 

My satellite feed is back:  Currently hearing Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6.

 

Oh, and I like many of the so-called Broadway Musicals, most of which are really grand operas but popular as the originals were when initially produced.  Looking at some of the old warhorses such as La Boheme (La Boreme), one can really understand why it was very popular in the early 1900s when it was very "slice-of-life" in the Paris of that time.  I really like Puccini, but he is over worked.  The same holds true for G & S.

 

Music theatre by whatever name remains a popular genre.  Of course motion pictures helped quite a lot with productions like South Pacific which took a real slice out of American racism at the time (1940s). 

 

One of the things on my Bucket List I will probably never make is the Bayreuth Festival.  While I can probably enjoy the Ring in a week, I think a performance of Parsifal would probably put me to sleep.