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No Rachmaninov or Tchaikovsky. No piano or violin music. Nothing in G major. nt

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In Reply to: RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most? posted by John C. - Aussie on February 20, 2015 at 21:48:16

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Hard to believe you are serious! (nt) - John C. - Aussie 15:31:57 02/21/15 (8)
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Enjoying 12,000 mostly classical CDs via Sennheiser HD800 headphones & M2TECH Vaughan DAC -> HeadRoom BlockHead headphone amplifier fed from a Meridian (Sooloos) server system.
The main 7.1 MC electrostatic speaker system is for A/V at night.
- Or D minor - the saddest of all keys? - andy evans 01:59:26 02/22/15 (1)
  Nigel Tufnel:"It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why��.."
  - The reason they weep... - D Harvey 06:54:47 02/22/15 (0)
    ...is cuz some assclown is playing "the white keys" again.
    
    dh
- More seriously: Almost any genre from the Golden Age ... - rbolaw 16:09:26 02/21/15 (5)
  the Golden Age being from about 1955 to the present.
  - (Tongue firmly in cheek) [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 22:01:24 02/21/15 (3)
    - not entirely ... - rbolaw 07:49:32 02/22/15 (2)
      I actually got a chuckle out of your post, since these days most of my music listening centers around the periods pre-1860 and post- OK, can't say 1955 and toss out early Miles Davis and Messiaen, so post-1935. If there was a fallow period in Western music, I'd put it from the death of Schubert in 1828 to the emergence of Debussy and modernism around 1894.
      
      Some great music in that period, though. A few years ago I spent a lot of time studying and listening to that music -- Alkan, Reinecke, and so forth, while reading Charles Rosen's superb (but dense) book, The Romantic Generation. But I would follow Mark Twain's example and call it not the Golden Age, but the Gilded Age. ;)
      - rbolaw - jult52 09:39:49 02/25/15 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: not entirely ... posted by rbolaw on February 22, 2015 at 07:49:32
        
        I'm also a fan of Rosen's "Romantic Generation." It's one of the few books that have very actively affected the way I listen to Liszt, Chopin, Berlioz and others from that era.
      - Schumann GT Schubert (IMHO) - Chris from Lafayette 15:47:15 02/22/15 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: not entirely ... posted by rbolaw on February 22, 2015 at 07:49:32
        
        I have no doubt that you'll eventually come around on Alkan too! ;-)
  - I listen to the TWO Golden Ages. - D Harvey 16:59:09 02/21/15 (0)
    Renaissance thru Baroque, and then 1890 or so to the present!
    
    Not to say I never listen to what came in between. But that stuff remains by and large less compelling than the rest to my ears.
    
    dh
I like how you think... - Paul_A 15:03:42 02/21/15 (0)
...but I have to disagree with you about G.

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