What's your favourite aspect of classical music?

[vandermolen]

In a published interview, I said: "Music starts where words stop." I love how music can express things that are beyond words.


Additionally, I will be the first to admit that I do love the alleged aloofness and snobbishness that classical music afford.

+1

[vandermolen]

Is it like some kind of metaphysical experience then?

Not sure, but your comment makes me think. At its best it expresses something very important that cannot be expressed in words. Despair turning into defiance is something that my older brother than I love in classical music (Walton Symphony 1?)

[Florestan]

In a published interview, I said: "Music starts where words stop." I love how music can express things that are beyond words.

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." ― Victor Hugo

"When words leave off, music begins." - Heinrich Heine

"Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Andersen

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley

[some guy]

Boring. I'd rather listen to a great musician express their deep creative side through their music. It's much more special and I learn a lot more and am often moved a lot more too. Beyond words.

I'm sure the feeling would be mutual. About the boring part.

About the "deep creative side," I'm sure many of the people I hang out with--do you hang out with people, yourself?--would be dismissive if not contemptuous. At the very best, they'd be a skosh embarrassed, probably.

[Monsieur Croche]

I'm into music for the thrills.

Classical music, from some of the most antique music we have to the music being made today = thrills I can't get through any other means.

[James]

About the "deep creative side," I'm sure many of the people I hang out with would be dismissive if not contemptuous. At the very best, they'd be a skosh embarrassed, probably.

Sure they would .. it's called humility, but if they spend most of their time on it and they are extremely passionate about it - it's there. The deep creative side, that is.

[Mirror Image]

This:

My favourite aspect of classical music is melody! It doesn´t have to be hummable, it doesn´t have to be memorable --- it just has to be.

No melody, no music for me!

And this:

The emotional aspect of it. The (sometimes) sense of communicating with the composer.

With my own added comment:

Not only am I into the melodic aspect of music, but I've always been fascinated by harmony and rhythm. But, in general, if I don't find what I'm hearing alluring or stimulating in any way, then chances are that I won't continue to listen.

[some guy]

...in general, if I don't find what I'm hearing alluring or stimulating in any way, then chances are that I won't continue to listen.

I wonder if it is possible to break out of this loop: If I don't like it, I don't like it.

[EigenUser]

I wonder if it is possible to break out of this loop: If I don't like it, I don't like it.

I agree with you, if what I think you are trying to say is what you are trying to say.

I usually like to think of not liking something as a possible learning experience. Why not? I used to despise Stockhausen's Gruppen, but I kept at it. Now I actually enjoy it and see it as a rather fun piece. I also never used to care for Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra and most Berg. Not true at all anymore!

If we only listen to things we like immediately, how are we going to get anywhere?

[71 dB]

If we only listen to things we like immediately, how are we going to get anywhere?

Most people don't want to get anywhere. That's the reason why most people do have so narrow taste on music.

[Super Blood Moon]

The sound that it makes.

+1

But only certain sounds by certain guys.

[Karl Henning]

+1

But only certain sounds by certain guys.

Atonal honking!

[James]

[Jay F]

I like its Mahlerness. And also its Bachness, its Mozartiness, and its Beethovenescence. And then there's its Shostakovichosity. And its Brucknerality.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

+1

But only certain sounds by certain guys.

And ladies, of course.

[71 dB]

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