Post a link to one of your favorite pieces. 😃

uh oh

*floods you with a tsunami of music*

You have to pick a favorite

Do it

🗡

Jk. I’ll post an accessible great piece from Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Chopin

Do it

Chopin 4 the win

https://youtu.be/4Bqp2C098UI this piece describes the spirit of heroic individualism as it first started to arise in the mid 19th century, which also accompanied nationalism. Many would agree that Chopin might be the most important figure for Poland’s cultural identity

https://youtu.be/ikTkMaPyZWM Rachmaninoffs 1st concerto is greatly overshadowed by the 2nd and 3rd but it’s a perfect concerto, and the pianist is just amazing

I love the Polish

https://youtu.be/7XGyWcuYVrg?t=20m59s Scriabins 2nd piano sonata is only 2 movements, and the first is very calm and reflective and has an epic middle section, and the second is fast paced and quite dark

That video contains 3 different performances of the same piece. The time stamped one is the best imo

I hear Tumblr is getting woke

I swear I used to know what all that meant back in my Music Appreciation elective class

In the sense that they’re banning all pornography, which floats 99% of Tumblr? Yes

@RoadtoDawn and I thought I was being outsider friendly 😣 Still top tier pieces

a concerto is basically a 3 movement piece with a full orchestra centered around a single instrument playing as a soloist

I insist on not adjusting your terminology for my sake, proper language is always important

Oh right

Yh the problem is it’s a whole field of study that hasn’t really been active in the past 50 years in regards to new *actually* famous composers

So people kind of shy away from it because of how complex it is but also because it seems outdated

> famous composers

> modern ones

M8

But its still high quality art that relates to life in every way

I don’t know much about this shit right

Yeah its kinda becoming a lost art :(

But as far as I can see the only “classical” pieces produced and got/made famous in the past fifty years have been Commie inspired bullshit

Of course it’s gonna degrade

Communists ruin everything they touch

Postmodernist works lol

People like xenakis

Next thing you know they’re gonna label Mozart a transgender polyamorous demosexual

I was raised Protestant (not Protestant anymore) and had the delight of listening to an organ and choir during church services. I think it stuck with me all of my life and plays a large role in my appreciation of classical

And game soundtracks. Like jeremy soule with skyrim

Like as I said I don’t know much about this area of music/musical history in general, but whenever I see modern works it’s always got that French/South American revolutionary zeal

Exactly

And I’m sitting here thinking what the actual fuck

Pinochet didn’t go far enough with the helicopters