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If you answered anything other than "Shostakovich's Ballet Suite No. 4", you are wrong.

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich == Greatest. Ever.

Those all suck.

Surely its "Wait and Bleed" by Slipknot?
I felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wander out where you can't see
Inside my shell I wait and bleed

I jest, I jest. That emo peice of crap shouldn't even be considered music.


I don't normally listen to classical, and I'm afraid if I say anything but that I'll get ripped apart, so I am going to have to say............

Double Team by Tenacious D?

(still joking, but its still a sweet song)

What's the point of posting in a thread where you've already said people disagreeing with you are wrong? :rolleyes:

Rhapsody In Blue-Gershwin
I wonder? does you opinion of shostakovich stem from the fact that "testimony" is currently on ovation!!!!!! Hmmmmmmmmm...........

"I've got the world on a string" - Frank Sinata.

Greatest song of all time.

I'm too sexy by Right Said Fred. It is not only the best song in existence but it is also a perfectly accurate description of my life.:D

Sorry to say I'm not familiar with any of those.

I'm too sexy by Right Said Fred. It is not only the best song in existence but it is also a perfectly accurate description of my life.:D

Classic. Total classic.

I'll have to go with "Too Drunk to Fuck" by Dead Kennedys. It's power is maximum.

Ugh. Why must you people make threads like this?

The need to assert the superiority of Classical music equates to small penis size. Fact.

Ugh. Why must you people make threads like this?
Blame the Jews, its not like someone else won't do it anyway.

And anyone who doesn't recognize The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1189977381292772054) as the greatest achievement in musical history is both wrong, and possessed of a small penis. When I hear that bassoon solo it just . . . words cannot describe.
Never before have so few brought tears to so many.

Blame the Jews, its not like someone else won't do it anyway.

And anyone who doesn't recognize The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1189977381292772054) as the greatest achievement in musical history is both wrong, and possessed of a small penis. When I hear that bassoon solo it just . . . words cannot describe.
Never before have so few brought tears to so many.

Oh dear god.

*ignores silly poll*
Beethoven's 6th, the Pastoral, Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan conducting.

Clearly beethoven's 9th.

Many of the most popular classical pieces are in fact the most beautiful, and it isnt a coincidence.

Which said, pachelbel's canon in D, bach's jesu joy of mans desiring, bach's cello suite 6 5 gavotte, and and the welsh 'suo gan' of Empire of the Sun fame are all also superlatively beautiful.

I like the Kronos Quartet's Lux Aeterna.

Man that is a good one. Violins=yum!

Clearly beethoven's 9th.



Agreed.

Something by beethoven I'd guess. Maybe the 5th Piano Concerto. Or maybe something by Bach.

Then again maybe something by Chopin.

It's hard to pick an all time number 1 really.

The music from The Tower of Doctor Zalost.




What?

I'd say the Rite of Spring, but then again, I am a loony.

Frank Zappa and the Mothers-Watermelon in Easter Hay.
Or, maybe Peaches En Regalia.



Perhaps Willie the Pimp....

I'll have to agree with New Granada and say Pachelbel's Canon in D.

From Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro(aka The Marriage of Figaro), in Act 3:
Duettino: 'Che soave zeffietto'

Absolutely fantastic =D wub it to death.

The most beautiful piece in my opinion has to be Greensleeves

I like Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 in C and the overture to the Marriage of Figaro. Also, the Lacrimosa section of his Requiem mass.

For Beethoven, I don't think anyone has mentioned Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 61, yet.

I came to take a poll on music, but there's nothing that doesn't resemble what my dog leaves on the lawn every day on that list. Where's the Heavy Metal!? :cool:

That emo peice of crap

Slipknot are emo now?

Of those on the list, my favourite would be Barber's Adagio for Strings, but considering I don't know the others very well, its not much of an opinion, and I can think of more beautiful pieces than the Barber. Such as the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th.

Classic. Total classic.

I'll have to go with "Too Drunk to Fuck" by Dead Kennedys. It's power is maximum.

Nothing of original question is worth voting for. While quoted song is great, I have to say that Bohemian Rapsody is the most beautiful music ever that has been and that will ever be.

Slipknot are emo now?
Anger is an emotion, isn't it? :p

Modest Mussorgsky's "A night on the Bald Mountain"

Frank Zappa and the Mothers-Watermelon in Easter Hay.
Or, maybe Peaches En Regalia.



Perhaps Willie the Pimp....


What? No Dont Eat the Yellow Snow or Nanook Rubs It?

Modest Mussorgsky's "A night on the Bald Mountain"

I prefer Duke Ellington's cover of that to Tchaikovsky's, personally.

What? No Dont Eat the Yellow Snow or Nanook Rubs It?

Joe's Garage FTW.

If you answered anything other than "Shostakovich's Ballet Suite No. 4", you are wrong.

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich == Greatest. Ever.
I dislike all classical music...

Surely its "Wait and Bleed" by Slipknot?
I felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wander out where you can't see
Inside my shell I wait and bleed

I jest, I jest. That emo peice of crap shouldn't even be considered music.


I don't normally listen to classical, and I'm afraid if I say anything but that I'll get ripped apart, so I am going to have to say............

Double Team by Tenacious D?

(still joking, but its still a sweet song)

Damn right it's double team.

I prefer Duke Ellington's cover of that to Tchaikovsky's, personally.

I never knew Duke Ellington covered that. That's bound to be very interesting, I'll have to see if I can find it somewhere.

Maybe "Fuer Elise."

I never knew Duke Ellington covered that. That's bound to be very interesting, I'll have to see if I can find it somewhere.

Its way hipper.

Duke ruled.

I'm going to be honest.. Classical music is boring! Just a bunch of violins and crap, and no lyrics. At least not that you understand.

My favourite songs are Sonata Arctica - Letter to Dana and Rod Stewart - I don't want to talk about it.

Weird music to you? ^^ Sonata is finnish power metal xD But that song is mellow. I like mellow music, because I'm not a mellow person. But.. Classical music is just too serene for me.

Its way hipper.

Duke ruled.

I think he made some great music. But somehow I can't combine his style with the atmosphere of "Night on the Bald Mountain"... it must either suck or be a piece of absolute genius. :)

Maybe "Fuer Elise."

I was thinking that, or maybe Bouree in E minor.

Simple, yet elegant.

I find classical music is much like heavy metal.
Put too much into it, and it becomes "prog metal" and then you have a "Yngvie Malmsteen" effect.

Its like over-seasoning a stew.

I'm going to be honest.. Classical music is boring! Just a bunch of violins and crap, and no lyrics. At least not that you understand.

My favourite songs are Sonata Arctica - Letter to Dana and Rod Stewart - I don't want to talk about it.

Weird music to you? ^^ Sonata is finnish power metal xD But that song is mellow. I like mellow music, because I'm not a mellow person. But.. Classical music is just too serene for me.

Serene? You've never ever heard "The Flight of the Bumblebee", right?

I think he made some great music. But somehow I can't combine his style with the atmosphere of "Night on the Bald Mountain"... it must either suck or be a piece of absolute genius. :)

I'd have to go with genius.

It takes quite a bit to make Tchaikovsky swing.

Uh... this is going to be worse than the "best movie" threads...

anyway, some of my favourites:

the Goldberg Variations by J.S.Bach
Die Zauberflöte and the Requiem by W.A.Mozart
3rd, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th Symphony by Beethoven
Piano Sonata n.8, n.21, n.29 (Hammerklavier), n.32 by Beethoven (n.32 is possibily the best and most innovative piano piece ever)
Piano Concerto n.5 (Emperor) by Beethoven
Ouverture from Guglielmo Tell by Rossini
"Largo al factotum" and "La calunnia è un venticello" arias from Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini
Preludes and La mer by Debussy
Mikrokosmos by Bartòk
Piano Concerto n.1 and the Rapsodies by Liszt
Das Ring der Nibelungen and Ouverture from Tannhäuser by Wagner
Igrok, Romeo and Juliet, Leftenant Kiže, Aleksandr Nevkij and Petja i Volk by Prokofev (iirc)
Messa da Requiem and the Triumph March from Aida by Verdi
The Rite of Spring, King of the Stars, The Firebird and Petruška by Stravinskij
The "Leningradec" symphony by Šostakovič
The Etudes by Chopin
Glagolithic Mass and Příhody lišky Bystroušky (the Cunning Little Vixen) by Janáček
The Improptu and the lied "Der Erlkönig" by Schubert
Peer Gynt by Grieg
Finlandia, the Black Swan of Tuonela, and Valse Triste by Sibelius
Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss
Tableaux d'une exposition by Musorgskij
Scheherazade by Rimski-Korsakov
I pini di Roma by Ottorino Respighi
The incidental music for Sergio Leone's "Dollar" trilogy by Ennio Morricone
The Planets by Holst
The soundtrack for classical Star Wars trilogy by John Williams
Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland
Pomp and Circumstance n.1 and n.4 by Elgar
West Side Story by Bernstein

...

and that's just the "classical" works!

I could go on with metal (Waltari's Symphony in Deep C, Iron Maiden's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner...) or rock (Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody)...


added: I really want to point out the March of the Prague Castle Guard.

Serene? You've never ever heard "The Flight of the Bumblebee", right?

or the 1812 overture, complete with cannon?

Rachmaninoff is good, but I prefer Dukas, Tchaikovski, and Dvorak.


But THE most beautiful? Lotus Feet. Steve Vai.

I'd have to go with genius.

It takes quite a bit to make Tchaikovsky swing.

You think so? I think some pieces do lend themselves to swinging... bits like the Russian Dance from Nutcracker, or the fairies from Sleeping Beauty ;)

Rachmaninoff is good, but I prefer Dukas, Tchaikovski, and Dvorak.


But THE most beautiful? Lotus Feet. Steve Vai.

Dukas and Dvorak... great! I forgot those in my previous post.

You think so? I think some pieces do lend themselves to swinging... bits like the Russian Dance from Nutcracker, or the fairies from Sleeping Beauty ;)

Well, perhaps you have something there.

After all, the chords played on classical guitar pieces are the same ones used in Heavy Metal today, so its all about time signatures, syncopation, and tempo.

Wagners "Ride of the Valkyries" for instance always sounds like a heavy metal song to me.

Possibily, metal will evolve into a new classical-type style, with huge orchestras...:cool:

I'm sorry, but you forgot to put Raffi's "Bananaphone" in your poll. Just letting you know. kthnxbye

Possibily, metal will evolve into a new classical-type style, with huge orchestras...:cool:

Already has. Dream Theater have played with the Octavarium Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMcpA8nzCFw), and a number of other bands have played with orchestras too.

Possibily, metal will evolve into a new classical-type style, with huge orchestras...:cool:

Heh.

Youre about 30 years too late.

Black Sabbath already did it.
But when it comes to metal...they pretty much did it all.

Metallica did an album covering a bunch of thier old tunes with a full orchestra.

Many albums have been released doing symphonic versions of The Who, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, you name it....

Some cool, some not so cool.

Already has. Dream Theater have played with the Octavarium Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMcpA8nzCFw), .

...and lots of bands that dont suck as well.




Heh, sorry.

Couldnt resist a cheap shot at Dream Theater.

...and lots of bands that dont suck as well.




Heh, sorry.

Couldnt resist a cheap shot at Dream Theater.

Lol, no worries. :fluffle:

I'd say Albinoni's Adagio or Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

If you answered anything other than "Shostakovich's Ballet Suite No. 4", you are wrong.

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich == Greatest. Ever.

What about the song for which you're named? Guaraldi is highly underrated. *nod*

O Fortuna has win like qualaties also.

Blame the Jews, its not like someone else won't do it anyway.

And anyone who doesn't recognize The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1189977381292772054) as the greatest achievement in musical history is both wrong, and possessed of a small penis. When I hear that bassoon solo it just . . . words cannot describe.
Never before have so few brought tears to so many.

WTF? How the hell did that thing get made? Who thought it was a good idea & actually stumped up the cash for it? :eek:

I'll have to agree with New Granada and say Pachelbel's Canon in D.

This is the only classical piece that I can recognise by name & by sound, so I'm going to with it too.

If you answered anything other than "Shostakovich's Ballet Suite No. 4", you are wrong.

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich == Greatest. Ever.

Pachelbel's Canon in D, listen to anything else == your a retard. :D

Heh.

Youre about 30 years too late.

Black Sabbath already did it.
But when it comes to metal...they pretty much did it all.

Metallica did an album covering a bunch of thier old tunes with a full orchestra.

Many albums have been released doing symphonic versions of The Who, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, you name it....

Some cool, some not so cool.

Yeah, I know, but I hope the classical/metal production is just beginning and not coming to a stop: it will take some more years to evolve into something similar to classic music. I think that the Apocalyptica are a good step in that direction. But I'm waiting for longer, organic pieces, like the Waltari's Symphony in Deep C (if you never listened that, do whatever you can to get hold of it, it's wonderful!), instead of collections of shorter pieces.

I was thinking that, or maybe Bouree in E minor.

Simple, yet elegant.

I find classical music is much like heavy metal.
Put too much into it, and it becomes "prog metal" and then you have a "Yngvie Malmsteen" effect.

Its like over-seasoning a stew.


A) Prog Metal has nothing on Shostakovich and his obnoxious Neo-Classical buddies (Rite of Spring has 6 part divisis in the bloody viola section) for overcooked and absurdly overdone music.

B) Not all Prog Metal is really too much. Symphony X, for all that their vocalist makes me want to kill myself, are much more minimalist than other, non-prog, metal groups. Even Malmstein really doesn't have too thick a voice (although he really only has one song, with scales starting in different places),

C) You'd like anything pre-Wagner. After that it becomes "Bigger is better" until everything, quite litterally, totally sucks. These days, it's back to a minimalism where everyone plays one note in different ways and it's called "masterful". :rolleyes:

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I'm hard-pressed to choose between Fuare's Pavanne and Sainte Saen's Introduction et Rondo Capriciosso.

Another goody is Bach Cello Suite: 2, movement one.

"Too Drunk to Fuck" by the Dead Kennedys

Can't beat Opera for beautiful music, classical can be good, but not a thing of beauty by my estimation.

Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus. And you should leave a "None of the Above" choice, doncha think?

Now I have to find them and listen to them. Just on general ability, I'd have to go with the Shostakovich

Admittedly, I haven't heard all of those, but the one I would rank the highest is the Adagio for Strings. Of pieces not on the list, I might nominate the prelude to Tristan und Isolde, the first movement to Mozart's piano sonata in A major, and the third movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony.

Tonto, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it...
Kemosabi, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it...
Custer, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it...
Apache, jump on it, jump on it, wowowowowowowowowo!!
A-hunga-hunga-hunga-hunga

Can't beat Opera for beautiful music, classical can be good, but not a thing of beauty by my estimation.

You mean 'orchestral/instrumental' can be good? Opera is generally considered as part of classical music.

Most of this thread is obnoxiously banal music-bashing. Like most music threads, really.

A) Prog Metal has nothing on Shostakovich and his obnoxious Neo-Classical buddies (Rite of Spring has 6 part divisis in the bloody viola section) for overcooked and absurdly overdone music.


There's nothing "absurdly overdone" about Shostakovich's work.


C) You'd like anything pre-Wagner. After that it becomes "Bigger is better" until everything, quite litterally, totally sucks.

Generalize much? I posit that the music you listen to, literally, totally sucks. Yeah, and the music your mum likes too.

Pachelbel's Canon in D, listen to anything else == your a retard. :D

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I'm sorry, I've just been wanting a chance to use this.

I like mellow music, because I'm not a mellow person. But.. Classical music is just too serene for me.

Yeah, whenever I hear the Dies Irae from Mozart's Requiem, I definitely notice how incredibly serene it is... :p


Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus.

Nifty! I meet very few people who know that piece at all, let alone love it. (I'm a fan myself - it's a deceptively simple little piece of music, but well-performed, it can be truly lovely.)


As for my own choice for "most beautiful piece of music ever"...well, I'm not going to choose. All of those listed in the poll are reasonable contenders, but I can think of several dozen equally reasonable contenders, and which of those I might prefer is entirely dependent on my mood. I'm feeling Fauré-ish at the moment, so today I might choose his Pavane. Ask me again tomorrow and I have no doubt I'll say something entirely different. :)

Yeah, whenever I hear the Dies Irae from Mozart's Requiem, I definitely notice how incredibly serene it is...

Yes, not to mention such listless pieces as Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, the finale to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, or Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture....

Seriously, though, there's nothing wrong with a genre that covers the serene as well as the exciting, especially within the same work. Who wants to hear the same mood throughout the entire piece/song, or even the entire genre, anyway?

Anyway, from the choices on the poll, I had to go with the Rachmaninoff.

But Barber's Adagio came close.


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I'm sorry, I've just been wanting a chance to use this.

*fap fap fap*

Yes, not to mention such listless pieces as Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, the finale to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, or Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture....

Seriously, though, there's nothing wrong with a genre that covers the serene as well as the exciting, especially within the same work. Who wants to hear the same mood throughout the entire piece/song, or even the entire genre, anyway?

If you want crazy/chaotic, Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a: Allegro Molto. It conveys crazy desperation.

"The Nightingale Enslaved by the Rose," by Rimsky-Korsakov.

My favourite classical musical work is either the J.S. Bach Mass in B Minor, the Mozart Requiem, or the Fauré Requiem. Although, I also like just about everything else, that isn't too over-the-top, loud, incomprehensibly dissonant, or totally minimalistic (which sadly covers a good deal of music today, both classical and popular). My primary difficulty with those types of music is my synaesthesia, which creates an effect akin to severe astigmatism or a migraine headache when I listen to such organised sound patterns.

Love, Me by Collin Raye & Amazed by Lone Star!!! Sure, there are loads of mushy love songs in the world but I find these two, exceptional, to say the very least! That's just me...I know...I'm weird!

If you answered anything other than "Shostakovich's Ballet Suite No. 4", you are wrong.

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich == Greatest. Ever.

No no no no, its JukeBoxHero by foriegner!

There's nothing "absurdly overdone" about Shostakovich's work.

I beg to differ.



Generalize much? I posit that the music you listen to, literally, totally sucks. Yeah, and the music your mum likes too.

The music I listen to totally sucks. OK. I'm cool with that. The music I listen to does totally "suck". I like it that way.

My mother likes Shostakovich.

I'm a personal fan of Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata. Has a lot of energy in it, which I generally prefer to the slower, more relaxing peices of classical music that most favor.

Out of those, though, I think I'd go for Barber's Adagio.

I'd just like to add that the Symphonie Espangole is as boring as hell for the majority of musicians. It's good if you're a violinist, I suppose, but the rest of us have hellishly dull parts.

But.. Classical music is just too serene for me.

Shostakovich's First or Fifth, serene?

Ginastera's "Estancia", serene?

Khachaturian's "Spartacus", serene?

You are a total lunatic!

Pachelbel's Canon in D, listen to anything else == your a retard. :D

Oh, bullshit.

That piece is overrated and worthless.

Oh, bullshit.

That piece is overrated and worthless.

Yeah, it's the only classical piece I've heard where the rock cover is better than the original:p

Those all suck.
QFT

Erik Satie's -Gnossiennes-. So much with so little.

Moonlight Sonata.

Moonlight Sonata.

Have you heard the the 2nd and 3rd movements?

Have you heard the the 2nd and 3rd movements?Sure, but in terms of "beauty" I think the first is best.

Banana Phone.

Banana Phone.

Pfft, if that's what you think then you obviously haven't heard the Badger Song.

Sure, but in terms of "beauty" I think the first is best.

Yeah, that's true.

1.learning to play keyboards volume 1
2.ghosts and ghoulies
3. holiday rock

If you answered anything other than "Shostakovich's Ballet Suite No. 4", you are wrong.

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich == Greatest. Ever.

Wrong.

AC/DC FTW!

Surely Ennio Morricone's Finale from Once Upon a Time in the West.

Also, watch a short film called Lasso by Salla Tykka if you can.

On second thought, Shostakovich's 5th Symphony is actually quite nice.

Wrong.

AC/DC FTW!

Wow... Talk about a dialectic of evil... On one side Shostakovich in all of his frurstratingly overwrought and completely uninteresting splendor and on the other side a synthetic modern pop-group.

My own personal hell.

Erik Satie's -Gnossiennes-. So much with so little.
Excellent choice. Satie is very underrated.

Excellent choice. Satie is very underrated.

Meh, I've always found him boring and from what I've read, I get the impression that he didn't take his music very seriously.