What do you think of Classical Music?

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I know, I read Gödel, Escher, Bach once or twice; but "essentially" was a bit too much for me... There is such a thing as beauty.

I love classical music. I love the expression and the pictures it brings to your mind.

you are absolutly right when i think of classical music it calms me down and i think of a forest and peaceful animals

I agree about Bach.

Also later classical composers around the time of Mozart became interested in a so-called 'perfect' mathmatical ratio found throughout nature. Many pieces of music (as well as art and architechture) were based on this 'Golden Section' or ratio.

One of my favourite Mozart operas (actually a singspiel) is 'The Magic Flute'. This is riddled throughout with almost an obsession with the number 'Three'.

But Bach is my favourite ~ Maths and Music meet in the fugue.

I appear to be the only person here who hates classical music, then.... Once more I bear a striking resemblance to a rather sore thumb.....

I don't hate classical music so much as have no interest in it whatsoever. For me classical is missing a bassline at least... sorry TAFKASH, not quite an ally....

Don't worry about me.... I can handle it....... I can carry on ploughing my lone furrow alone...... Especially if its with a broken violin

Hmmm, interesting. How exactly is Bach mathematical? Explain, say, how his Organ Fugue in G Minor (my favorite) is mathematical.

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The fugue is one of the most mathmatically organic forms in music. You can start with a very short subject (in some cases almost a motif) and the music will 'grow' out of it.

The G Minor fugue is a lovely piece (quite simple in structure but mathmatically interesting nonetheless). The interest lies in the opening leap of a fifth which seems to drive the design of the whole piece.

First subject enters on the 'G' and starts with a leap upwards of a fifth.

The next entry of the subject starts on the 'D' (entering at the fifth). Each entry of the subject thereafter enters alternately on the tonic and the fifth in either g minor or it’s relative major.

The subject is 10 bars long (multiple of five).

In between the entries of the subject there are episodes based on part of the material from the subject moving through the 'Cycle of Fifths' to add interest by moving through different keys.

About two thirds of the way through there is also a long pedal note on the fifth.

Hmmm, interesting. Thank you.

Not as Mathematical as my favorite genre of music, Math Rock. Which is a real genre of music... all though most bands wouldn't like to be labeled. I personally like the name, but I don't view math with the same stigma that most do.

Actually all music is applied mathematics, if you break it down into it's basic components.

I like classical music, but much of it doesn't have enough drums or low frequency parts for my tastes. But the stuff that is "dark and brooding" I really like. Some music that I like probably has some indirect influences from classical music.

I really like to explore music with a mathematical mind. But I am nearly tone deaf... so I just stick to understanding rhythm. I would like to improve my skills with the drums, but I am not consistent enough to play in a band. So I'll just play for my own personal amusement, and as a mental/physical exercise.

I am a huge lover of Bach. To me, classical music, especially Bach, is very sexy. I also like just about anything played by Itzhak Perlman or Vanessa Mae.

I always liked some classical music and hated others. I like "full" music with an up-tempo pace. My favorites are "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba", "Pictures at an Exhibition" and "Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor". When I was young (9 or 10) I went to an old cathedral and heard T&FiDM played on a huge pipe organ and was completely blown away.

I also like techno-remix works such as "Phantom of the Opera" by Harajuku.

When I was 20 I owned the complete "Hooked On..." record set.

I love classical and instrumental music!

Can't say that I've really been able to appreciate classical music, or even most pure instrumentals.
I prefer listening to something with actual lyrics...I guess that I just need something with an actual subject matter in able to enjoy it. And if it's something that I like that doesn't have words, it's probably something forceful with snare drums.

I like Orff's Carmina Burana, but I'm generally more into neo-classical a la Dark Sanctuary. I also like some of X-Ray Dog's epic scores for film trailers, such as the song "Gothic Power" that was in the trailers for "Lord of the Rings," etc.