Anyone like any other style of music?

[dave_mc]

The term 'classical' is totally overused. I mean, people call classical anywhere between the early 1600's (Baroque period: Bach, etc.) to the late-ish 1800's (Impressionist period: Debussy, Ibert, etc). That's like 200 years, whereas the 1980's spawned about ten different genres of metal!

Yes, but classical is the accepted term to cover all it's subgenre's. Just as metal covers Thrash, death metal, black metal, power metal etc etc.

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[Philly Q]

In my ignorance, I'd have used the term "classical" to include any orchestral music including 20th century composers like Messiaen, Prokofiev, Stravinsky etc, so I've learned something from your post Muzzzz!

(Unless it had singing, then I'd call it "opera")

But ultimately, they're just labels, what do they matter.

[noodleplugerine]

In my ignorance, I'd have used the term "classical" to include any orchestral music including 20th century composers like Messiaen, Prokofiev, Stravinsky etc, so I've learned something from your post Muzzzz!

(Unless it had singing, then I'd call it "opera")

But ultimately, they're just labels, what do they matter.

I'd still call Prokofiev, Shostakovitch, Debussy, etc, Classical music, even though it's in the modern period, and so would most classical music fans tbh.

Opera I'd also call classical music (Unless it was written by Phillip Glass :roll: )

[rahnooo]

I'd still call Prokofiev, Shostakovitch, Debussy, etc, Classical music, even though it's in the modern period, and so would most classical music fans tbh.

Opera I'd also call classical music (Unless it was written by Phillip Glass :roll: )

Indeed. The important (yet rather semantic) difference is the distinction between "classical music" and "Classical music".

The former can be applied to orchestral and choral music from medieval lute music and Gregorian chants, to the works of John Cage or Gustav Holst (to name but two 20th century composers).

In contract, "Classical music" denotes a very small time frame, that which falls between Baroque music (Bach and Vivaldi) and Romatic music (Rachmaninov and Elgar). Hence Mozart is a true "Classical" composer, while all the others mentionned are "classical" composers.

Fo what it's worth, my favourite composers to listen to are Berlioz and Stravinsky, favourite to play (orchestrally) are Gershwin, Bernstein, Vivaldi and Bach.

*Rahnooo*

[Muzzzz]

^ +1 on Gershwin. That guy did a LOT for jazz and modern music.

[Brodo]

lately i have been broadening my musical horizon and listening to a pretty wide range of tunes for a 13 year old.

at the moment i am exploring more experimentle music (the mars volta, the flaming lips ect) and have come across musicions such as hendrix (which i never listened to before, but still liked his music), john mayer, porcupine tree, buckethead, john 5 and an amazing band called apocalypitica, who are 4 celloists and a drummer who play metal and classical, and even have an album of metelica covers where instead of singing they use the cello as the voice.

i've even got gnarls barkleys album (although i haven't listened to it yet)

[noodleplugerine]

apocalypitica

Oh god.

Not them again :|

[Elliot]

Well - I hate metal, I can just about have a laugh with AC/DC and I get on OK with Led Zepplin, anything else is just wrong for me (which makes it hard to find things to play on the electric).

Generally I listen to acoustic guitar type folk (Jansch, Renbourn, Davey Graham) and Nu Folk (Vetiver, Espers that stuff), renaissance and baroque stuff, classical guitar, 60s rock and some of the newer Fat Possum raw blues like RL Burnside, T Model Ford or Seasick Sam.

[99_not_out]

Seasick Sam.

Is he the guy with three strings on his guitar - one heavy gague on A and two lighter on B / high E - and plays slide?

[Kilby]

Seasick Sam.

Is he the guy with three strings on his guitar - one heavy gague on A and two lighter on B / high E - and plays slide?

Nope that Seasick Steve (sorry I'm being Mr Pedantic)

Him and Ray LaMontaine where the musical high point over the christmas period

[99_not_out]

Seasick Sam.

Is he the guy with three strings on his guitar - one heavy gague on A and two lighter on B / high E - and plays slide?

Nope that Seasick Steve (sorry I'm being Mr Pedantic)

Him and Ray LaMontaine where the musical high point over the christmas period

Seasick Steve: thanks Kilby, now I know who he is I can acquire some of his tunes. Saw him on Jules Holland but forgot his name! And no worries about being pedantic: Je suis un software engineer, exactness is a science :)

+1 for Ray, what an amazing voice that man has.

[Kilby]

Seasick Steve: thanks Kilby, now I know who he is I can acquire some of his tunes. Saw him on Jules Holland but forgot his name! And no worries about being pedantic: Je suis un software engineer, exactness is a science :)

+1 for Ray, what an amazing voice that man has.

Well the Jools appearence is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GvoqSx0ReI and theres several youtube clips of him playing Belfast late last year (I fecking missed him)

The problem I have with My LaMontaine is he sounds exactly like Tom Grey (out of Gomez) who you can't really hear so well on radio play, but on CD or live sounds amazing

If you havn't already done so get the album "Bring it On" for a perfect mixture of swampy blues, pop and stoner blues (Liquid Skin is a little more poppy but still an excellent purchase)

Hey I'm still sad enough to write Win32 apps in assembler, just to prove to a couple of developers that point & click programming is wasteful (sad isn't it)

Rob...

[broken cord]

I think there are only two genres of music - good music and bad music.

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