Posted on 03/18/2015 11:10:35 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Will classical music disappear?
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Still available (used) today, at the nearest Half-Price Books.
A pity ... Do you know if she recorded some of her own material eventually?
It was movie soundtracks that got me into classical music. I collected many soundtrack LPs, and got used to the sound of an orchestra. Some soundtracks actually included classical pieces. From that, it was a small jump to listening to and collecting classical music recordings.
You have to recognize that modern classical music can be found in movie scores. Some of them are quite dramatic and lovely. http://www.hans-zimmer.com/index.php?rub=discography&bt=2&numid=1 It is alive and well and the new composers are every bit as talented as the old !
Indeed.
Classical music will last forever. It may not be performed by symphonys in the future but the music will survive. It’s indie, rap, disco and other disposable music that will be easily forgotten.
We believers in Christ know that even though the hounds of hell are at our doorstep, they cannot and will not win.
Every single nation will be destroyed, but as for Western Culture....it will be the only culture that survives. Every other regressive, degenerate, and retrograde culture will be a part of the dustbin of history soon.
Soon the “New Song” that will be sung will make Classical Music seem like a gibberish. (Rev 5:9)
It may virtually disappear here, but Boogieman is correct: some Asian cultures (e.g., Japan, South Korea) will perpetuate it, for they appreciate it as fewer and fewer in the West still do.
Totally agree with Prager, thanks for posting.
Live365 - Cinemix streams high quality soundtracks 24/7 with few to no interruptions. I listen mostly in bed, helps me sleep.
Totally agree with Prager, thanks for posting.
Live365 - Cinemix streams high quality soundtracks 24/7 with few to no interruptions. I listen mostly in bed, helps me sleep.
Why bash vevo? I can site some examples of great tunes with that label. If you don’t like them...... I don’t bash classical that I don’t like.
Lots of Classical music is being written today. It’s all for movie soundtracks.
I’m already mourning the loss of elevator music. Classical will not go away. It may change, as when Stravinsky came aboard, but it will not die.
Come on! That’s all they ever listen to in Star Trek, that can’t be true!
With respect to Dennis Prager (whom I read with appreciation), I figured out that film scores (inherently programmatic) were the modern equivalent of classical music - in the broad versus period sense - as a child of ten; this was long before I developed a significant appreciation for any music, especially classical: Like it or not, film scores generally made sense to me, as did true classical music; atonal “classical” music was literally nonsensical in that it was purely arbitrary, without any anchor to attach it to the human mind or soul.
After I was laid off and returned to school (c. 2000), I studied music at first a college and then a university. I knew what to expect philosophically/politically, but it was even worse than my expectation.
I knowingly made the mistake of opining this very thing (i.e., that film scores are the modern classical music) to the ranking music history professor; he, a confirmed leftist with an apparent homoerotic agenda, categorically dismissed my assertion without discussion.
The Babylonians had a seven-tone “major” scale; it is natural to the human being. This is just one more way in which leftists virulently hate and aggressively attack inherently human dispositions.
Schoenberg was philosophically akin to Marx and Nietsche: A nihilist who hated truth and beauty, and wanted to subvert both.
Before Stravinsky, the public wanted to hear the latest/newest classical music, for it had the fundamental elements of music: melody, harmony, rhythm, in ever-renewed combinations, producing a specific ‘affect’ (emotional effect); in other words, it was music with purpose and meaning. (Tchaikovsky, a melodic genius, was beloved in America more than in Russia!).
After Stravinsky and his successors, the public suddenly wanted to hear “old” classical music. The resurgence of Bach, Telemann, et cetera, is largely a 20th Century phenomenon, due to the ascendancy of atonal/serial music, and not just due to the development of recording technology.
I recommend the book, Dionysus Rising, by E. Michael Jones:
Although I am technically a classical musician (i.e., I occasionally get paid to sing in professional choral ensembles), I am a pop guy at heart.
Now that I have studied the history of music, I understand better why that is so: My favorite instrument is the human voice - the original musical instrument.
Classical music stations rarely play choral music (except on Sunday morning, and on holy days such as Easter).
This is ironic, for most of what people consider true classical music - strings, brass, winds, without any vocals - all came about as adaptations of vocal chant or chorus.
That is why I seldom listen to classical stations, and why I prefer to listen to middle-period Beach Boys [Pet Sounds, SMiLE, 20/20, Sunflower, Surf’s Up, Holland], the stuff that gets little or no airplay: It has the elements of music, melody, harmony, rhythm, in richly varied arrays, elements that are deficient or missing from much current music.
I think an excellent example of this is the first Hunger Games soundtrack: I consider this the best combination of film score [James Newton Howard] and pop music [The Civil Wars, et al] I have ever heard, and I won both albums. The music all seamlessly blends with the cinematic material, and enhances its emotional effect.
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