Favorite Serious Music

Seriously, I can't decide. But I couldn't live without Beethoven.

by the way, I didn't mean to offend by calling it Serious Music. But I couldn't call it Classical Music since I wanted you to pick among the various genres (please don't take offense at that term). :-)

The modern composer refuses to die - Edgar Varese

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Drifter

Wasn't he influenced a lot by John Cage?

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Huh?

:evilfrown: btw, I can understand why you don't consider pop music serious but pop music is the type of music on top of the charts and I would thought some DUers would like the music. Guess I was wrong :evilfrown:

please don't be offended - Serious is a term used for the music when you want to discuss genres other than classical.

I thought the :evilfrown: would appear that I was posting with a sarcastic tone.

Bach, Bach and Bach of course, but no Vivaldi et al no Bach.
I am a counterpoint and polyphony type. I like medieval as well.

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<---- this guy. :D

such as experimental (Phillip Glass, Radiohead, John Cage), and jazz.

but that's another discussion altogether I'm afraid.

because that is just one era.

Actually I think Glass and Cage fall in the realm of the Later Moderns.

We ought to start a separate Jazz poll - we could look at all the decades of Jazz that way and see who likes what.

I've tried to get jazz discussions going in general and they all seem to die.

That would have been my vote.

but you certainly could put him with the Later Romantic Pianists as he wrote some of the most impressive Romantic piano pieces.

Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Chopin, Vivaldi... and many others... hard to say which one would be a fav, but I suppose I would have to say Mozart.

and no Wagner?

It's the ring cycle all the way

the mount everest of music

Excuse me. (Course I would call him a lyrical modern and put him with Mahler and Shostakovich, wouldn't you?)

Even though he came about much earlier, I would say his music was so revolutionary as to have brought in the modern era.

never mind the Missa Solemnis, sonatas, concertos et al.

I guess I'd put Debussy and Ravel in there with Prokofiev, Bartok, and Mahler... I find that category the most interesting myself; though I love them all.

but I didn't, so: Mozart is my first choice, then Beethoven and Bach as close seconds.

I love D'Vorak and Tchaikowsky. I despise 12 tone music, I had to play "American Triptich" at Interlochen and pretty much all the kids hated it. We did do "Billy the Kid" by Copeland, Tchaikowsky's Fifth Symphony, "Le Coq d'or" by Rimsky-Korsikov, and Mendolssohn's "Reformation" Symphony, which we all loved.

My favorite pieces of music are D'Vorak's works-the Romance for Violin and Orchestra is a beautiful work, and the Ninth Symphony (From the New World) is cool because he wrote it to teach americans how to use their own music in developing american music. He uses rifs from "Three Blind Mice" and old black spirituals, among other things. John Williams ripped off the 4th movement for the "Jaws" theme.

"The devil with the violin", Paganini? Cani I write-in?

I'm all for Mozart, Schubert, and the rest of the gang. But I am hopelessly in love with early music -- madrigals, various settings of the mass, etc. Bring THAT on!

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Quite prophetic:

When you think is peace and safety:
A sudden destruction.
Collective security for surety, ye - ah!

There's so much wonderful, amazing, beautiful stuff in all those period. Listen to Vaughan Williams' "Variations on a Theme from Thomas Tallis", then listen to the original Tallis - I think it's the third piece from a "Psaltry for ummmm Bishp Richards?". But for the past few days I've had the scherzo from Beethoven's 9th symphony stuck in my head, especially the contrabassoon solo. And the timpani solo - I think that's from the 4th movement. I saw a conductor cue the timpanist with his right elbow for that solo once.....

I don't adore beethoven , Wagner, Puccini>Verdi and Brahams - don't get me wrong mozart is wondeful baroque in small doses like the Bminor mass -