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But you do need to appreciate it. You don't need to enjoy listening to it, you don't need to play it on your car stereo, you don't need to know the name of every symphony composed by Beethoven, you don't even need to know how to spell Beethoven. But you do need to acknowledge that it is good.

Just my personal opinion.

it is quite soothing...

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It isn't all good though.

It isn't all good though.No Genre is all good, but there is a reason it is called Classical.

I like it, though.

Ehm, don't talk down on me like I don't know anything about music. It is called classical because of the style and time period. It has nothing to do with the quality.

Ehm, don't talk down on me like I don't know anything about music. It is called classical because of the style and time period. It has nothing to do with the quality.

Ya know Metallica is going classical.... rofl you tart, its called CLASSIC... :P

Ya know Metallica is going classical.... rofl you tart, its called CLASSIC... :P

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Ehm, don't talk down on me like I don't know anything about music. It is called classical because of the style and time period. It has nothing to do with the quality.
Yeah, and not everything people call "classical" is truly classical. Most of it is Romantic.

I don't make a point of listening to a lot of it, but I've never disliked it.

Ehm, don't talk down on me like I don't know anything about music. It is called classical because of the style and time period. It has nothing to do with the quality.

Didn't see your name up there. Anyways, I think he was commenting that classical music as a style is good. Sure there are crappy pieces in any genre of music, but that doesn't make the whole genre is crap.

My point is, and none of what I just said made my point for me it was just rambling, I agree that classical music is good. Wow, I think I just made a run on appositive...is that even possible?

Heh, yea...Mozart is Romantacism, not Classical...oh, and be sure not to confuse classical with neo-classical. There are tons of musical periods. People really aren't very informed.

Ehm, don't talk down on me like I don't know anything about music. It is called classical because of the style and time period. It has nothing to do with the quality. :roll: Too much caffeine? Don't get your panties in a twist, I simply was trying to make the point that music without merit doesn't survive for hundreds of years being performed regularly in a short and clever manner. I obviously was unsuccessful in communicating this to you.

...but it does...

Not everything that guys like Beethoven wrote was ingenius, however, because he had a few great hits, people started saving all of his music, no matter the quality...

Info on CLASSICAL Music (http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/eras/classical.html)

...but it does...

Not everything that guys like Beethoven wrote was ingenius, however, because he had a few great hits, people started saving all of his music, no matter the quality...Perhaps you missed that little disclaimer "being performed regularly" that I threw in, his 'lesser known works' are lesser known for a reason.

I spent a lot of time during my senior year of high school studying music from the Romantic Age... it was all quite good... and I know the difference between that and classical music... but that was some time ago.

It's times like this that I wish I had the music to Moonlight Sonata.


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Heh, yea...Mozart is Romantacism, not Classical...oh, and be sure not to confuse classical with neo-classical. There are tons of musical periods. People really aren't very informed.

Sorry, Mozart is classical. Anyway, I like the composers from the Romantic period better anyway:

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Among others....

Another great composer that isn't classical would be Johannes Bach. He was Baroque.

It isn't all good though.No Genre is all good, but there is a reason it is called Classical.

Actually it's called that just because it incorporates classical themes of composition, as opposed to folk music from the same time period.

It isn't all good though.No Genre is all good, but there is a reason it is called Classical.

Actually it's called that just because it incorporates classical themes of composition, as opposed to folk music from the same time period.

As far as modern composers go, how about:

Robert W. Smith
Frank Ticheli
Bob Margolis
Jack Stamp


Probably many others that I can't think of right now. Oh, and free, legal samples of all of those (except Smith) can be downloaded at www.ManhattanBeachMusic.com

It isn't all good though.No Genre is all good, but there is a reason it is called Classical.

Actually it's called that just because it incorporates classical themes of composition, as opposed to folk music from the same time period. :roll: Why is everyone taking my attempt at a clever and humorous reply so literal?

It isn't all good though.No Genre is all good, but there is a reason it is called Classical.

Actually it's called that just because it incorporates classical themes of composition, as opposed to folk music from the same time period. :roll: Why is everyone taking my attempt at a clever and humorous reply so literal?

Why does everyone take my bullshitting so seriously? :P

Fantasia Nova - Bob Margolis. Hehe, if you don't laugh at the first movement, check your pulse.