rinich

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   by rinich 17y ago

   I look at it another way. When I play classical music, I find that I develop an appreciation for its nuances that I don't initially have. I start liking every individual line for its melody, whereas at first I only hear one or two things. A
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   by rinich 17y ago

   b) more plentifully recorded That's a big one. There's some more obscure classical music that I happen to be a huge fan of. Problem is, with that music I came on listening to it as if it were a song and not a composition. When I listen to
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   by rinich 17y ago

   The reason classical music is less popular among the masses is not that it does not appeal to emotions - a lot of people would argue with that. I'm curious if you'd say that about Romantic music, which tried explicitly to evoke an emotion
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   by rinich 17y ago

   That's an utterly biased and thoroughly wrong accusation. Name one of those songs lacking melody and I'll point out exactly what line could get stuck in my head. Even songs that use chords as a hook don't get the entire chord stuck: There's
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   by rinich 17y ago

   I never thought to use Pandora for classical music! Upvote for a marvelous suggestion.
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   by rinich 17y ago

   And admittedly so.
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   by rinich 17y ago

   In the 20th century, classical music went a lot of interesting ways. A lot of the really innovative composers were focusing on dissonance and atonality — Bartók, Stostakovich, Varèse, Stravinsky. With that, there starts to be a challenge to