Classical vs Pop music
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Most classical music makes me want to throw a chair through a window. What makes me hate it even more is the snootiness associated with it. Old farts who smell like the inside of a twenty year old clarinet case sticking their nose in the air trying to impress you with how "sophisticated" they are, describing the composer as some sort of genius level musical god, then describing the music note for note in flowing complexities of music theory leaving the impression the composer actually wrote his music that way...
Some people do that to modern composers too.. but you can still talk to the actual composer or performer and ask him if he was thinking about all the complex theory and hear him say " Nah... it just sounded good".....
Here's another perspective on how those old dead farts wrote music. They sat down at the piano and played what came into their head, then wrote it down on paper so they could remember it later. Music theory was invented later to give stuffy old farts who smelled like clarinet cases a way to explain it.
Hmpfh.....
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Most classical music makes me want to throw a chair through a window. What makes me hate it even more is the snootiness associated with it. Old farts who smell like the inside of a twenty year old clarinet case sticking their nose in the air trying to impress you with how "sophisticated" they are, describing the composer as some sort of genius level musical god, then describing the music note for note in flowing complexities of music theory leaving the impression the composer actually wrote his music that way...
Some people do that to modern composers too.. but you can still talk to the actual composer or performer and ask him if he was thinking about all the complex theory and hear him say " Nah... it just sounded good".....
Here's another perspective on how those old dead farts wrote music. They sat down at the piano and played what came into their head, then wrote it down on paper so they could remember it later. Music theory was invented later to give stuffy old farts who smelled like clarinet cases a way to explain it.
Hmpfh.....
@Larry said in Classical vs Pop music:
Most classical music makes me want to throw a chair through a window.....
Hmpfh.....Philistine.
But you knew that, of course.
("Philistine" means
a : a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values
b : one uninformed in a special area of knowledge) -
@Larry said in Classical vs Pop music:
Most classical music makes me want to throw a chair through a window.....
Hmpfh.....Philistine.
But you knew that, of course.
("Philistine" means
a : a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values
b : one uninformed in a special area of knowledge)@George-K said in Classical vs Pop music:
Most classical music makes me want to throw a chair through a window.....
Hmpfh.....Philistine.
But you knew that, of course.
("Philistine" means
a : a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values
b : one uninformed in a special area of knowledge)George, do you prefer Ode Rico or Parfum de Vandoren?
