Classical Music

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My favourite piece of classical music for the moment would be Carmina Burrana, by Carl Orff. Mostly because I sing in a choir, and we're setting it up for a grand concert in early february next year. We are quite a big choir, so the atmosphere when we are singing is wonderful, and cannot be compared to anything else.

As for the game vs beethoven discussion: I think comparing theese two forms of music is a bit absurd. But as BM said, it is all subjective. In my oppinion, no music can be compared as long as it is of different composers. Comparing two different Maiden songs is relevant as the composors are the same, but two songs of two different songwriters, is not comparable because the composors have different purposes and visions behind their music.


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I recommend singing in a choir [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
Perun...my friend...is it truly wrong to assume that in the future people will look at the masterpieces of the 20th Century in the same manner that we look at the masterpieces of the 17th and 18th? I don't think this is so far fetched.
 
Mate... the definition of a masterpiece lies in the future, not in the presence. Many of history's greatest artists went by almost unnoticed by their contemporaries while the hype was on people mostly forgotten by now. I'm not saying it's wrong to like film soundtracks or video game scores -I pop in the Indiana Jones or Gladiator soundtracks in myself every once in a while- but to say that someone is in the league of Beethoven is nothing we are to judge. It is to be judged by those who come after us. Only then will people remember what is worth to be remembered.
 
Personally I prefer the more modern classical ("classical" meaning the general term the whole genre has been given, rather than the period) music. True, Beethoven was one of the best composers ever, but the emotion put in a lot of more modern classical cannot be beaten IMO.

Composers like Orff, Satie, Stravinsky, Holst, Debussy, Stockhausen, Bryars etc. really hit me with their music in a way that earlier pieces and composers don't. Not saying that Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach etc. are bad...
 
Flight of the bumble bee is awesome, and Carl Orff's O Fortuna of course [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--] and to keep pissing of perun I see no difference in making the score for an opera than making the score for a film.... Operas were "entertainment" back in the day as films are today.
 
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