Poll: Do you listen to classical music?

[ThatLankyBastard]

I only really listen to one piece of classical music, "Night on Bald Mountain" by Modest Mussorgsky...

 

[Dr. wonderful]

I perfer Mozart.

Well I listen mostly to Beethoven,Haydn,Chopin,Mozart and Schubert.
How about you escapist's?

....No Offense.

But you listed only TWO classical musicians.

The other three were ROMANTIC composers.

And BTW, I listen to Hiphop and some Rap does that meke me retarded?

Classical music is in fact several era's.
For instance there is the baroque,classical period music,romantic music and then modern classical music which have composers such as Igor Stravinsky and John Adams.
If I would have said classical-era music then you would have been right but you're not.

I never said that you were retarded, just rap.
Because I think some rappers insult poetry by calling them selves "poets".

*Pinch nose* True.

and on the subject of Rap, It's IS poetry, just a different kind. Urban almost, sure what they saying is wrong ~and stupid~ it is expressing themselves.
Take this verse:

It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead
I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin' changes
learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers
and that's how it's supposed to be
How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
but things changed, and that's the way it is

is it a rap or a poem?

I have no idea what it is but this is what I consider poetry:

Spoiler

Suddenly the night has grown colder.
Some deity preparing to depart.
Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,
they slip between the sentries of your heart.

Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure,
they gain the light, they formlessly entwine;
and radiant beyond your widest measure
they fall among the voices and the wine.

lt's not a trick, your senses all deceiving,
a fitful dream the morning will exhaust---
Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving,
Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.

Even though she sleeps upon your satin.
Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
Do not say the moment was imagined,
Do not stoop to strategies like this.

As someone long prepared for this to happen,
Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.
Exquisite music, Alexandra laughing.
Your first commitments tangible again.

You who had the honor of her evening,
And by that honor had your own restored---
Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
Alexandra leaving with her lord.

As someone long prepared for the occasion;
In full command of every plan you wrecked---
Do not choose a coward's explanation
that hides behind the cause and the effect,

You who were bewildered by a meaning,
whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed---
Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.

What I posted was about a man procaiming that he want violence to stop, his friend is dead and he dosen't understand why people are just randomly killing one another.

It can be considered both a Poem and rap.

 

[AWAR]

le snip

This is a poem too:
will offer you this wise piece of advice
It's a simple fact of life that never fails
It's this if you like to scratch your bum
You should never bite your finger nails

It's guite similar to your "Poem and rap" in the sense that its interpretations are limited and possesses no structural or vocal aesthetic value whatsoever in which case I personally think it's not art, merely a wall of text that rhymes.

 

[Kris015]

Nope, not really. But i do listen to symphonic metal.

 

[Cogwheel]

I listen to a lot of orchestral music.

Classical? Not so much. I love most classical music, mind, but a few things get in the way. First, I know nothing about it, and Youtube is remarkably unhelpful where finding new stuff is concerned, in this case. I know that Bach is pretty amazing, though.

Also, remembering actual bits of music (what's the proper term here? Instrumentals? Not songs, certainly) is something of a closed book to me, what with stuff being named/catalogued in an exceedingly stupid manner back then.

Help would be appreciated, hint hint. I am being very subtle here.

..Yes I'm joking. Should learn to get some stuff done myself, after all.

 

[BonsaiK]

Well Escapist's.
I'm a big fan of classical music but of course I listen to all sorts of it, except for rap and hip hop which stands for retards attempting poetry.
(No offese towards well, retarded people)
Well I listen mostly to Beethoven,Haydn,Chopin,Mozart and Schubert.
How about you escapist's?

I had classical music shoved down my throat from the time I was about 5 years old, all the way through to when I did a music degree. I've heard almost all of it and I like almost none of it, and not from a position of ignorance - I understand exactly how it works and to me that's what makes it dull.

I probably only really listen to classical music these days when it's used in a rap song.

 

[Trull]

Ever since I started Fallout: New Vegas, and my character in my play was from the 1940s, I can't get enough of that music. It's classical in a way

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Some of the more modern, stranger stuff, and even then, very little.

'Proper' classical music bores the pants off me.

 

[Kris015]

Nope, not really. But i do listen to symphonic metal.

Its only classical if it has neoclassical influences or follows classical music theory, otherwise its just metal with an orchestral backing.

Don't know much about music, but it's the closest i get to classical music tho

 

[badpun]

Nope i can respect it, but it just doesn't suit my tastes.

 

[Ickorus]

Sometimes but not much really, I have a great respect for it because it's true music unfettered by the music industry but I tend to stick to my post rock music which is kinda similar in a way.

I personally love this song:


Because it makes me feel like I could conquer a nation by myself.

 

[Galletea]

I listen to all types of music, including classical. My favourites are Saint Saens, Holst and Bizet. It depends on my mood.

 

[Vault101]

Im not sure if movie/game soundtracks count But I like to listen to them from time to time

I do know a few classical peices but they have such confusing names I can't name them

 

[Guffe]

Well I like the fact about Classical music that you have 100 or more members syncing into one loud great sound and often it sounds very good. I also like it because I listen to its successor, that is Metal! but not on a daily basis or anything but sometimes....
Unless...
does this count?

 

[busterkeatonrules]

I'm a Romantic Period enthusiast myself. Johann Strauss II and Giachino Rossini are my favorite composers, probably due in no small part to all the cartoons I watched as a kid that featured the music of both.

Yay for cartoons! That's how I got into classical as well. The animators of the 40s and 50s ripped off a lot of great composers, but my personal favourite has to be Franz von Suppe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-iWuvFhzE

That's the overture to "Morning,Noon and Night in Vienna". WB actually used the WHOLE THING as the musical score for one memorable short, featuring Bugs Bunny as the conductor!

 

[Sephychu]

J.S Bach is a great man. I listen to him as much as I do Megadeth or Metallica.

 

[Lilani]

Why yes, yes I do. I'm not too much into the "oldies" as they played them though, I prefer modern arrangements. E.S. Posthumus, Bond, and the great Leopold Stokowski rock my world. I'm not sure if their styles technically count as "classical," but they're close enough to me, and MAN are they powerful.

Spoiler: Here is Bond

Spoiler: And here is E.S. Posthumus

The second none gets really good at 2:00, and is actually a "remix" of its original version. I prefer this one though, it's much more intense.

 

[De-Moti]

Yes and no.