GRRRRR... this is not music... (Ulog #38)
Most of the time, I'm playing and performing music from the Baroque (sometimes Classical, sometimes earlier) period of Western "Classical" Music. It is a time and language and style of music that really appeals and touches me, and it is something that I do decently enough (well, at least people aren't throwing anything hard at me...).
So, it is often a bit of a shock to the system when I come across contemporary modern pieces. The rhythms, harmony and the sound world are completely alien to me.... and the the writing is often very poor for the instruments that are being written for. It is as if they are making the pieces irrationally difficult for no discernible reason.
So, I have very little patience for this sort of music, but it is the calling of the job sometimes. I'll do the best that I can, but to be honest, the piece excerpt in the top photo is best described as unplayable... probably sounded decent enough coming out of a computer, but to me it resembles a random number generator.
Anyway, this is the piece that it comes from. If you are interested, give it a listen. It's not really my cup of tea!
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FOR TSE: You have got to be kidding me!! This stuff is crap!! And I'm not much into modern music either. I'm not as enthralled about classical as you are. I play what most people call "classical" a lot, but it's mostly the Romantic composers and the Impressionists. There's something a little too "mathematical" about the Baroque period for my tastes. (I don't know how else to describe it ... so that's how it came out.)
You don't want to know my "impression" of the thing you included here. (Oh, wait ... I already gave it to you.) Seriously, I couldn't play it. I couldn't even listen to it for more than 30 seconds. (SIXTEEN MINUTES OF THIS SH*T. Jesus, give me a break!!) I commend you for your fortitude. That paycheck must really matter. As someone whose life is the Classical / Baroque style, this must have been pure torture.
... But on the Baroque front, a lot of the 'modern' (non-specialist) interpretations from the last century (and even still in this century) have suffered from the Victorian and 20th lens of interpretation. Meaning that they dutifully played the notes in time, without realising that the score was a skeleton to be improvised and played in a rhetorical manner (like speech, with the accompanying geuestures in time and affect), so not the typewriter-like and dry approach that you might be thinking of!
It is much more heart on sleeve than the modern tradionalist approach!
I may be a bit to Conservative in my music taste to enjoy that music...
It's worse to play!
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@cmp2020 and I have this conversation all the time. There are notable exceptions, but in large part, It seems like "classical" music took a wrong term some time around the early 20th century.
Agreed... there was a real wrong turn somewhere! It used to be that "high-art" music was much more similar to the "pop" music of the day. That and the fact that it wasn't listened to... and that musicians and composers were the same thing... then, composers became a specialist profession (ie, not a practicing musician) and demanded that their music was listened to!
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hmmm, interesting. I find that difficult to follow as well. Classics are more my style.
It's much worse to play... but then after listening to the recording of it, I still don't know what an audience would find interesting in it...
Howdy sir bengy! so it sounds like you are saying that modern music sucks, is that about it?
I am on your page. I posted about the Baroque Music this morning (briefly) Adaggio per favore.
I'm going to take a look! Yesterday I put up some Buxtehude music that might be the sort of thing you might be interested in, Early German Baroque.
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