The most boring music you've heard

[knight66]

Pachelbel Canon and Gigue.

Mike

[Florestan]

Gade & Bruckner

(runs away for his life)

[zamyrabyrd]

Practically all of Czerny and Hummel, and a lot of piano music by Weber.
Also Salieri and some of Clementi.

ZB

[abidoful]

Gade & Bruckner

(runs away for his life)

Funny thing about Bruckner; he has written some of the most LONGEST pieces, but i never get bored! I actually was quite astonished few days ago when i heard a piano piece of his and i thought "how nice small piece" and i looked the duration and it was over 5 minutes! Something to do with his sense of time???

[Christo]

The problem with boring music is, that I/we never play it. So how can I really know? (I know for sure that the only time I ever fell asleep during a concerto was with a Schumann piano recital in the open air in a garden in Rome - so I guess I find Schumann boring, but I how can I be sure?) 

[abidoful]

The problem with boring music is, that I/we never play it. So how can I really know? (I know for sure that the only time I ever fell asleep during a concerto was with a Schumann piano recital in the open air in a garden in Rome - so I guess I find Schumann boring, but I how can I be sure?) 

Now when come to think of it, i was really bored during a seemingly endless performance of the Schumann "Davidsbundlertänze".

So, thanks

[The new erato]

I just played the first disc of the Brilliant set of Haydn Barytone trios, and it was insufferably boring. Hope this is because it was early works, very little of the sparks of the piano trios and string quartets were noticeable here.

[greg]

Pachelbel Canon and Gigue.

Mike

I agree here. I never understand why the Canon is so popular.

[knight66]

I agree here. I never understand why the Canon is so popular.

The reason is here........

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,15872.msg396308.html#msg396308

Mike

[Lethevich]

César Cui would like this thread - finally something he can win at!

[Szykneij]

I agree here. I never understand why the Canon is so popular.

Anything becomes boring if it's overplayed. Get out your guitar and check out this score:

http://www.8notes.com/members/1327.asp?ftype=pdf


It's really a finely crafted piece and a lot of fun to perform (unless you're stuck with the ground bass part, I guess). I have my high school orchestra perform it every five years so each student gets to experience playing it before they graduate.

[listener]

R. Murray Schafer:  Son of Heldenleben
A 20 minute fantasia/auto-encomium on his works (dodecaphonic and atonal) that no one can recognize because they were commissioned works that got their one performances by different orchestras across the country.

[Christo]

I agree here. I never understand why the Canon is so popular.

As you may know, Rob Paravonian is of the same opinion:

                        http://www.youtube.com/v/JdxkVQy7QLM

[mc ukrneal]

Some unexpected comments. I find that music is usually boring when I don't like the performance. But if the performance is good (or to my taste), then I won't think the music boring.

I like Gade, Bruckner, Saint-Saens, Hummel, etc. Hummel is a good example. I used to think him terribly boring. But then I heard one of his piano concertos performed by Stephen Hough on Chandos and I suddently couldn't stop playing the music. So it wasn't the music that was boring, it was the performance/interpretation. Since then, I have discovered other composers in the same way. So if you think someone's music boring, you may just need a different approach.

[abidoful]

César Cui would like this thread - finally something he can win at!

ouch!!! : D : D

[Wanderer]

César Cui would like this thread - finally something he can win at!

The best worst music? 
Actually, his lieder are quite lovely.

[DavidRoss]

As you may know, Rob Paravonian is of the same opinion:

Not really, he just hates that as a cello player his part was boring while everyone else got to play lovely melodies.

I've found that some music that once seemed boring grows more appealing once life's taught me to appreciate its virtues.  But not Pachelbel's Canon.  From the time I first got to know it back in the '60s it has always offered a peaceful respite from a world gone mad.  Just like the Beatles's Come Together.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

But not Pachelbel's Canon.  From the time I first got to know it back in the '60s it has always offered a peaceful respite from a world gone mad. 

I can enjoy this piece in the form of George Rochberg's 6th String Quartet, which contains a variations movement based on the notorious Canon. A refreshing illustration of "making the old new."

[Christo]

Not really, he just hates that as a cello player his part was boring while everyone else got to play lovely melodies.

I've found that some music that once seemed boring grows more appealing once life's taught me to appreciate its virtues.  But not Pachelbel's Canon.  From the time I first got to know it back in the '60s it has always offered a peaceful respite from a world gone mad.  Just like the Beatles's Come Together.

Please don't worry. We agree on that (and on more than you would expect, but not on everything  ). Anyhow: I find Rob Paravonian very funny, and that's the only reason I posted this.

BTW, I don't know this Beatles' song at all. (I was too young in those days, grew up with a strict & highly personal diet of classical music, only came to pop music in the early 1980s. That's why. But we would agree on the concept of music as a consolation of the soul, I think.) 

[Sergeant Rock]

I've found that some music that once seemed boring grows more appealing once life's taught me to appreciate its virtues.  But not Pachelbel's Canon.  From the time I first got to know it back in the '60s it has always offered a peaceful respite from a world gone mad.

I like it so much I bought this:



Sarge