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1 posted on 05/04/2008 6:41:07 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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Related “ping” to you. :)


2 posted on 05/04/2008 6:43:16 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: forkinsocket
somehow the "malaise" classical music afficionadoes feel is the fault of rich American white men. I can just tell.

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The Pope happens to prefer classical music.

3 posted on 05/04/2008 6:47:04 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (what is it you hope to find here?)
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I’m calling BS
Classical music is alive and well and finds new audiences all the time AND modern rock and roll, all modern music.. is based on the “call and response” pattern of western classical composition


4 posted on 05/04/2008 6:51:43 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Ping for later read while I listen to one of my 6000 classical LPs...
5 posted on 05/04/2008 6:53:26 PM PDT by colinhester
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Thank you for posting this. I did a thesis on a similar topic called “The Industrialization of Music,” which I feel began around the time of Mozart and Beethoven, and then swept the landscape after the French Revolution. Very interesting topic. And a little sad for me, as I watched the Classical Era begin to disintegrate before my very eyes in the history books. I was torn: it seemed to coincide with the demise of the aristocracy and the new “liberty” of the coming world and, while I believed deeply into the concept of liberty, I also felt some grief for the beginning of the demise of Classical Music. A real conundrum.

Bookmarking. This is a good article.

Cheers.

6 posted on 05/04/2008 6:55:45 PM PDT by EggsAckley
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I have also heard it argued that realistic art was killed off for half a century precisely because of the appreciation Hitler and Stalin had for it. That is why, so the argument goes, we have had to put up with dots and smears masquerading as art for so long.


7 posted on 05/04/2008 6:59:35 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: forkinsocket

We don’t have a large collection of classical cd’s, but classical music is mr sneakers and my music of choice, along with Latin Mass music (Tallis, Palestrina, etc)


8 posted on 05/04/2008 6:59:47 PM PDT by sneakers (Liberty is the answer to the human condition.)
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Classical forms in modern music

Impressioni di Settembre

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10 posted on 05/04/2008 7:04:46 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Hmm, what about Hollywood movie scores?


15 posted on 05/04/2008 7:10:39 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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I also call BS.

Classical music was simply the best music that could be written in its day, being an exercise in the management of the sound assets offered by an orchestra made up individual artists using very specialised instruments.

Make no mistake: if Mozart is reincarnate amongst us, he is using Cakewalk and synthesizers.

As a metaphor, consider the Amish - they claim to not want to use "modern technology", yet the technology they use was quite modern only a few hundred years ago, so the Amish aren't against "modern technology" per-se or they wouldn't be using the modern plow, horse harnesses, grain mills, etc.

17 posted on 05/04/2008 7:11:02 PM PDT by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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While I consider the Tenor Solo of Beethoven's 9th the pinnacle of western music - music changes, and it's hard to turn away from brilliance in any form.

Alot of the people who used to carry the banner for classical music are moving on.

25 posted on 05/04/2008 7:17:14 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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Image hosted by Photobucket.com XM came with the car... the only reasons i keep it are 110, 111 and 112
26 posted on 05/04/2008 7:17:41 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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Classical music record labels are dying.The people who patronize symphonies and opera are contemptously referred to here on this forum as "elitist". Go ahead start a thread on the Van Halen drummer having a cold -- 500 replies guaranteed! Americans Idle thread has, what, 7,000 replies?! Shame.

The local classical music radiostation here, the one and only, down from two 20 years ago, won't even play complete pieces, symphonies or concertoes, only short movements, that as often as not are associated with some trashy movie melodramas. Here is the theme from the Julia Roberts movie, the announcer will say. Groovy!

That said, I'm afraid that Cakewalk/synthetizer QWERTY keyboard virtuosos of "techno" and "house music" are no Mozarts of the day.

28 posted on 05/04/2008 7:20:50 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (You're gonna cry 96 Tears on my Pillow!)
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Would this be of interest to your classical music ping list?


29 posted on 05/04/2008 7:23:05 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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To: forkinsocket

Nothing like Baroque in the morning. Classical music is great and its still heard and appreciated by bunches. But to call it, “serious music,” is not going to enhance its dissemination to the masses of cd-buyers.


31 posted on 05/04/2008 7:25:10 PM PDT by Rudder ("There is only one chief. Obey him." [Rush Limbaugh, April 30, 2008])
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As Ross points out, trivially but accurately, “when any self-respecting Hollywood archcriminal sets out to enslave mankind, he listens to a little classical music to get in the mood”.

No, they are moralizing and attempting to make a beautiful thing ugly by association. It's about the height of their artistic talent.

32 posted on 05/04/2008 7:25:57 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: devolve

Of possible interest!


41 posted on 05/04/2008 7:31:46 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: forkinsocket

bump for reference -


45 posted on 05/04/2008 7:36:01 PM PDT by EverOnward
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I have a 1947 published book “Dictionary of Opera” that flatly states that Handel operas are so musically and theatrically archaic that they will never be seen again by modern audiences.

Wrongo. Performances of Handel operas have skyrocketed worldwide between about 1990 and the present.


48 posted on 05/04/2008 7:41:32 PM PDT by rod1 (uestion)
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he doesn’t consider himself classical, but this fellow has a classical sound: http://www.william-joseph.com


50 posted on 05/04/2008 7:43:19 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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