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07-06-2006, 12:59 AM
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Favourite composers
Right, yes, yes, we've heard what songs you've been listening to - pretty revealing, really, good heavens. But what about favourite composers? Fancy a bit of Chopin, do you? Or, erm, is Philip Glass more to your taste...?
Speaking for myself (a luxury, I'll allow), I'd have to say that I've got a taste for Samuel Barber. Like many a misguided youth, my favourite piece of music is Adagio for Strings, though I'm also very fond of the Cello Concerto, Op. 22. Second to Barber in my estimation is Henry Purcell, and third on the list is Georg Handel (I've an unhealthy obsession with Zadok the Priest). And then, for my sins, yes, I like Gilbert & Sullivan. I'm sorry, but I do. I even stuck John Wellington Wells in my avatar.
Now relate to us all in horrendous detail the secrets of your musical tastes.
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07-06-2006, 01:18 AM
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Would this be a good place to request some Techno?
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07-06-2006, 01:26 AM
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Not really. Unless you have money. Lots of money. Lots of money that you don't mind giving to me, so that I can go out and buy an inexpensive CD for you - and then pocket the rest, cruelly and callously, like the blackened soul that I am.
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07-06-2006, 01:58 AM
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You're gonna hate me ... But my favorite's Nobuo Uematsu, the guy who composed the music for the Final Fantasy games. Some of his stuff is really innovative and great--though since it's designed for video games, most of it never ends, but loops endlessly. Still, if you listen to "Liberi Fatali" from FF8, or "The Dark Messenger" from 9, or "One-winged Angel," in an orchestral version ... Some of it is fantastic.
I also admire some of the movie composers such as John Williams for Star Wars, Harry Potter and others, and Danny Elfman for such beauties as The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Simpsons theme.
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07-06-2006, 02:19 AM
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I like Tchaikovsky. Carl Orff, too. And of course Wagner... And no one can dislike Beethoven. Not really a fan of Mozart, though. I prefer the romantic composers.
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07-06-2006, 02:26 AM
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Orff is marvellous - though one pretty much has to go out of one's way to find anything of his aside from CB.
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07-06-2006, 02:40 AM
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Okay, okay ... Nicholai Rimskey-Korsakov's "Scheherezade" is my personal favorite classical piece ... Except I think it's officially classified as "Romantic." *shrug*
Another famous piece of his (I know I'll never spell this right), "Capricio Espaniol," was also quite good.
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07-06-2006, 02:50 AM
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ravel - bolero
beethoven - moonlight sonata
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07-06-2006, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Hodge
I like Tchaikovsky. Carl Orff, too.
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What about Haydn, or JS Bach? or mr webber himself? Bach makes Carl Orff seem more like Jack Orff in my opinion...
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07-06-2006, 10:19 AM
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I'm more of a seventies person, give me Motown's Norman Whitfield.
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07-06-2006, 10:53 AM
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I don't really listen to plain music, I don't like it alot, but I'm going to take a shot and make myself look stupid.. I like:
John Williams (I think he composed the music for Harry Potter?)
Beethoven (I like whatever is by him, though my friend says that Moonlight is his best, so I'm going for that one)
(Not much music but I liked the composing of the LOTR, and Enya's voice is strikingly wonderful I'd say...)
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07-06-2006, 03:36 PM
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philip glass for modern...i have 2 of his cd's...amazing
shostakovich for classical (im only 16, he counts as old)
bach for REALLY fucking classical
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07-06-2006, 04:53 PM
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Martyn O'Donnell is absolutely amazing.
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07-06-2006, 08:16 PM
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Hoffmeister, Bruch, and Bach...I've played Concertos by all of them and I lurrrve them dearly.
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07-06-2006, 08:19 PM
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Snoop Doggy Dog
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