Do you like classical music?

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I do! . I'm listening to Mozart right now.
Classical music is music in its purest form, and it's so relaxing during homework and any other time.

Bach and Handel are my favorite of the composers. Baroque is good in general though.

If we're talking instrumental music, my preference tends to be jazz, particularly the cool jazz school of the 1950s/early 1960s and jazz-blues. I like the mood of the music, as well as the improvisational nature of it. The funny thing is that I've never really cared for jam bands (i.e., Phish, Grateful Dead, etc.), which are basically improvisation-based rock music. Go figure...

I do like some music from the Romantic period, particularly Rachmaninoff. It just seems "freer" and more emotional to me than music from other periods, such as the Classical period (i.e., Mozart)...does that make sense? I do listen to Classical or Baroque music occasionally...I just tend to prefer Romantic.

it does make sense. dont worry.
you guys make me want to go out and hear a bunch of new stuff, now! got any favourite pieces you'd suggest?

Yes and especially Mozart.

I think one movie that opened my love for certain classical music was the movie Amadeus. That's when I started looking up more composers around his time. His music I love especially because they vary so much from jovial and happy to melodious and sad.

Other than him: Johann Sebastian Bach, Brahms, Franz Schubert, Gustav Holst, Beethoven and so many many more.

My favorite Rachmaninoff piece is Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14, especially if it's arranged for solo piano. Very beautiful, haunting melody.

On the jazz side...

My all-time favorite jazz album (so far) is "Kind of Blue," by Miles Davis. I love this album, particularly on rainy days.

I really like Sonny Stitt's version of "I'll Be Seeing You."

Wes Montgomery's "Bumpin' on Sunset" is a great piece.

Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" is a good one, too.

I also like Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight."

Hmm...I better stop before this list starts getting to long.

I like it, but Handel's Hallelujah Chorus absolutely makes me crazy.

Or, in other words,

I can't handle Handel.

Bach, Brandenburg Concerto 1, allegro.

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Handel, Water Music, allegro.

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Pachelbel, Canon in D.

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Vivaldi Four Seasons!! ! My favorite.

I like Mozart very much, and some Bach.

I don't like violent pieces: most of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, you get the idea. Lighten up guys FFS!

It's the only music i despise, it's not enough beat and joy in it, but I can like it if it has a connection to movies, f. ex disney, and videogames, like final fantasy, otherwise I find it depressing to listen to classical music.

Bach, Telemann, Pergolesi.

I call that music of panzies. Classical music is much more that that.


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Yes.like ALL types of music, and do listen to some classical to help me relax.

here's some good ones.

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I'm more of a romantic era type of person. Romantic, I find, is the happy medium between most baroque being very generic and formulaic and jazz being too errant and no pattern to follow.

Yes this may sound odd for someone who is diagnosed as having Aspergers, but it's kind of an escape to my formulaic life LOL

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Here's kind of a summary, in my opinion, of romantic era music, breaking away from the formula of baroque and laying the foundation for jazz, because chronologically, romantic is between baroque and jazz. Also, some famous composers composed in a romantic style, like Ludwig van Beethoven.

Do you like classical music?

Yes..some is more colorful, some is in complete harmony and some is just downright soothing. Depending on current variables, I can be enthusiastic or even numb, by the same piece.

Chopin is my fave, very moribund and moving. Says a lot for my current psycological state, but there you go.

Though seeing the New York Philharmonic do Pictures at an Exhibition was the greatest concert (followed shortly two days later by Tchikovsky's 1st violin concerto was grouse)

I still want to go to La Scala one day and see a production of Tales of Hoffman... next life maybe.