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ArishMell · 70-79, M
So-called "classical", which of course includes Classical; plus 1960s-70s rock and 1960s pop, and traditional folk.
The loose term "classical" with small 'c' covers a gigantic, centuries-wide spread of secular and sacred, instrumental and vocal music from Mediaeval to Rennaisance, on to Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern and up to Contemporary - the last being music written now.
Though I find the really avant-garde creations uninspiring, even pointless. I find some of the strictly Classical sonatas a bit dry and academic - I admire the skill needed to write and play them though.
Many Baroque pieces evoke the B adjectives: the big, bright, brassy, bouncy Baroque. (Its contemporay Lutheran and Catholic traditions inspired a lot of deeply sacred music, but many of the secular Baroque pieces were course, composed as unashamedly for entertainment and for money, as anything now.)
My favourite orchestral works are from the Romantic and Modern style eras.
My tastes are far wider than that though, to include some jazz, blues, brass bands, organ music, and a lot of the symphonic music written for films and video games. (I've seen few if any of the films and have never played a computer game!).
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On the opposite side, most Big Band arrangements, American crooning, rap, dance-club styles, anything sampled and the manufactured chart stuff now made, all leave me cold.
The loose term "classical" with small 'c' covers a gigantic, centuries-wide spread of secular and sacred, instrumental and vocal music from Mediaeval to Rennaisance, on to Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern and up to Contemporary - the last being music written now.
Though I find the really avant-garde creations uninspiring, even pointless. I find some of the strictly Classical sonatas a bit dry and academic - I admire the skill needed to write and play them though.
Many Baroque pieces evoke the B adjectives: the big, bright, brassy, bouncy Baroque. (Its contemporay Lutheran and Catholic traditions inspired a lot of deeply sacred music, but many of the secular Baroque pieces were course, composed as unashamedly for entertainment and for money, as anything now.)
My favourite orchestral works are from the Romantic and Modern style eras.
My tastes are far wider than that though, to include some jazz, blues, brass bands, organ music, and a lot of the symphonic music written for films and video games. (I've seen few if any of the films and have never played a computer game!).
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On the opposite side, most Big Band arrangements, American crooning, rap, dance-club styles, anything sampled and the manufactured chart stuff now made, all leave me cold.