What Are You Listening To Right Now? II

Black Francis · 04-12-2018, 07:47 PM

josht23musiclover · 04-13-2018, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Can you play these pieces or do you just know them that well from listening?

No I can't. I played the piano as a teenager and did play a couple of Chopin's works, but I had to quit playing for various reasons right when I was becoming good enough to consistently play works by the greats. However, that experience opened my eyes to the solo piano repertory and for a few years after I was obsessed piano music, especially Liszt, but also guys like Chopin, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff: too obsessed, as it meant I didn't realise they were just some of very many. I know quite a bit of their piano music pretty well but I don't return to them that often these days as I'm branching out/exploring.

OccultHawk · 04-13-2018, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by josht23musiclover

No I can't. I played the piano as a teenager and did play a couple of Chopin's works, but I had to quit playing for various reasons right when I was becoming good enough to consistently play works by the greats. However, that experience opened my eyes to the solo piano repertory and for a few years after I was obsessed piano music, especially Liszt, but also guys like Chopin, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff. I know quite a bit of their piano music pretty well but I don't return to them that often these days as I'm branching out/exploring.

As a listener, it takes a long time to get to know a classical composition. When I was a teenager the classical records I bought were predictable: Beethoven symphonies and string quartets and Mozart operas and symphonies. I still generally like the ones I know best the most. Probably not because they’re objectively the best but just because that’s what caught my eye in a record store decades ago.

People who keep dozens of composers and hundreds of compositions in their heads and can identify them after only hearing brief passages have my respect.

On the other hand, I remember when I was in my twenties it blew my mind how people could identify jazz standards so quickly. Now I can do that pretty damn well for a non-musician.

ManifestBlasphemy666 · 04-13-2018, 05:49 PM

SmokeAndMirrors · 04-13-2018, 08:06 PM

grindy · 04-14-2018, 07:52 AM

josht23musiclover · 04-14-2018, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

As a listener, it takes a long time to get to know a classical composition. When I was a teenager the classical records I bought were predictable: Beethoven symphonies and string quartets and Mozart operas and symphonies. I still generally like the ones I know best the most. Probably not because they’re objectively the best but just because that’s what caught my eye in a record store decades ago.

People who keep dozens of composers and hundreds of compositions in their heads and can identify them after only hearing brief passages have my respect.

On the other hand, I remember when I was in my twenties it blew my mind how people could identify jazz standards so quickly. Now I can do that pretty damn well for a non-musician.

Ah well I'm not one of those people who keeps that many in my head :P The reasons I know the Liszt Sonata so well are because it's (probably) his greatest work and I was obsessed with the composer, and also because I was a teenager at the time and teenagers have an easier time memorising things. These days, even though I'm only a few years older, it takes more work and, indeed, many classical works do take a long time to get to know, especially for someone as average as myself. I find very large-scale composers like Mahler, and ones with extremely dense motivic/contrapuntal development, to be very difficult and they can take awhile. The rewards are, however, enormous.

Mindy · 04-14-2018, 11:28 AM

new kid cudi tune...smashing pumpkins sample

omar101 · 04-15-2018, 09:39 AM

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innerspaceboy · 04-15-2018, 10:56 AM

I'm in the mood for some swampy hoodoo gris-gris voodoo. (Mood lighting optional.)

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