In Reply to: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) posted by Teresa on July 1, 2012 at 01:59:53:
No offense, but for the most part the stuff you say you liked was the middlebrow stuff, if that. It's no surprise to me that you found it simplistic, because it is.
If you really want to understand how sophisticated and rewarding music can be, you have to listen to the greats until things "click" and you appreciate them. That means Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, first and foremost, as well as Haydn, Brahms, Handel, Schubert, and others in the great German tradition.
We are talking musical sophistication that is orders of magnitude greater than what you've been listening to. Indeed, I'm not sure you're even hearing music, because you place much too much emphasis on timbre. If you find the piano reduction of Beethoven's Fifth as exciting as the symphonic version, you are hearing the music. Otherwise, you're just listening to sound.
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- You never understood classical music - josh358 17:16:31 07/03/12 (11)
- RE: You never understood classical music - Teresa 18:15:55 07/03/12 (10)
- RE: You never understood classical music - Mali 07:41:36 07/04/12 (1)
- I think the story line helps the composer compose exciting music. - Teresa 20:50:52 07/04/12 (0)
- RE: You never understood classical music - josh358 06:07:55 07/04/12 (7)
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- RE: You bring up interesting--even important--concepts, yet your understanding is incomplete, therefore misleading - josh358 12:18:27 07/04/12 (5)
- Perfect pitch is a nonsense in the context of equalised temperament - Timbo in Oz 16:12:23 07/05/12 (1)
- RE: Perfect pitch is a nonsense in the context of equalised temperament - josh358 17:02:14 07/05/12 (0)
- RE: You bring up interesting--even important--concepts, yet your understanding is incomplete, therefore misleading - Raymond Leggs 15:55:04 07/04/12 (2)
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- RE: You bring up interesting--even important--concepts, yet your understanding is incomplete, therefore misleading - josh358 16:27:11 07/04/12 (0)