Poll
Question:
What am I in relation to the art? (select as many as apply)
Option 1: Singer
Option 2: Instrumentalist
Option 3: Appliantist (performer)
Option 4: Conductor
Option 5: Musicologist
Option 6: Amateur enthusiast of music history
Option 7: A daily listener
Option 8: A weekly listener
Option 9: Composer
Option 10: Air conductor
Option 11: Air guitarist
Option 12: Air cellist
Option 13: Banana
A complementary poll.
Karl, how did you get those check boxes? :o ::)
Why didn't you add "composer"?
Silly oversight.
Now emended (and without marring anyone's vote).
Air conductor and daily listener for me! :)
Air conductor, daily listener, amateur music historian. 0:)
8)
Too bad there was no air pianist option! :D
Weekly listener. That fits to me best these days.
Quote from: Henk on May 10, 2011, 12:19:26 PM
Do you speak honestly? $:)
It was honestly an oversight, and I honestly think it perfectly silly for a composer to forget to include composer.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 10, 2011, 12:53:00 PM
It was honestly an oversight, and I honestly think it perfectly silly for a composer to forget to include composer.
I understand. Sure I believe you. Crazy, Karl, it's more craziness then seriousness, I hope you feel so about this as well.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 10, 2011, 12:53:00 PM
It was honestly an oversight, and I honestly think it perfectly silly for a composer to forget to include composer.
I personally smell a conspiracy. By leaving out "composer" Karl was preparing a basis to claim that he is the sole composer on GMG. Good thing this diabolical plan was nipped in the bud. It could have been in the courts for decades! 0:)
Daily listener and air conductor.
Then I added conductor because air conductor IS conductor!
PS: I do occasionally conduct now, but I did conduct between again 10 and 16, and twice more later.
Air conductor, daily listener, and amateur enthusiast of music history (with particular interest in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries).
Sarge
An Instrumentalist (Double Bass), Daily (Or at least Semi, but more than Weekly) listener, and an amateur music history enthusiast who's trying to learn to be professional :)
Instrumentalist, daily listener, and banana were my answers. There were no teacher or airhead options for me to choose.
Quote from: Szykneij on May 11, 2011, 02:24:37 AM
Instrumentalist, daily listener, and banana were my answers. There were no teacher or airhead options for me to choose.
Why banana?
Quote from: Henk on May 11, 2011, 02:26:50 AM
Why banana?
When in doubt, banana.
http://www.youtube.com/v/TIxgBZbHSkg
Quote from: Szykneij on May 11, 2011, 02:24:37 AM
Instrumentalist, daily listener, and banana were my answers. There were no teacher or airhead options for me to choose.
Ach, another honest oversight . . . .
My own votes (of an unimpeachable integrity) are: singer, instrumentalist, conductor, daily listener, composer & banana.
Quote from: Henk on May 11, 2011, 02:26:50 AM
Why banana?
Banana ROCKS, Dude! 8)
See:
http://www.bananarama.co.uk/ (http://www.bananarama.co.uk/)
(Almost) daily listener, (amateur) instrumentalist, pointed stick banana.
I am an air composer.
I chose 4 options:
Amateur enthusiast of music history
A daily listener
Air Conductor
Air Cellist
:)
Amateur enthusiast of music history
Daily listener
(Ocassional) air conductor - esp. with very rhythmic & pumped up music...
Quote from: Sid on May 11, 2011, 08:45:28 PM
(Ocassional) air conductor - esp. with very rhythmic & pumped up music...
Like?
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 11, 2011, 08:48:46 PM
Like?
For me anyway, Rimsky-Korsakov's
Russian Easter Festival Overture always gets me doing some major 'air conducting'.
or Mendelssohn's 5th Symphony.
Quote from: ChamberNut on May 11, 2011, 08:51:00 PM
For me anyway, Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture always gets me doing some major 'air conducting'.
or Mendelssohn's 5th Symphony.
Well I tend to "air conduct" quite often, especially if it's a very hushed, melodic section. But as far as the rhythmic stuff, I always seem to do Bartok's
The Miraculous Mandarin, Stravinsky's
Jeu de cartes, or Villa-Lobos'
Genesis, especially the Villa-Lobos as there's this section in this ballet where music absolutely cuts loose with a primal rage.
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 11, 2011, 09:03:20 PM
Well I tend to "air conduct" quite often, especially if it's a very hushed, melodic section. But as far as the rhythmic stuff, I always seem to do Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin, Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes, or Villa-Lobos' Genesis, especially the Villa-Lobos as there's this section in this ballet where music absolutely cuts loose with a primal rage.
Right, I tend to air conduct during the hushed moments, just as much as the high energy rhythmic sections. :)
I really love to air conduct the beginning of the 2nd movement of Tchaikovsky's 5th. :)
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 11, 2011, 08:48:46 PM
Like?
Lately it's been things like Monteverdi's
Vespers & Beethoven's late quartets. But these pieces are difficult to air-conduct because there's a lot of rhythmic changes that go on, so you have to be alert in order to do a "good job." :P
The last time I air-conducted intensively was with thousands of other people :o . I was at an open air concert in summer of Shakespearean classics - Mendelssohn, Walton, Nicolai, Prokofiev. & to top it all off, the traditional symphony under the stars ending, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture - can anyone resist air-conducting that, I ask? It was kind of liberating to do this. I'll probably go again next year just to air-conduct like that again. A friend of mine came, but I don't remember him air-conducting, he was doing funny accents - German for the Mendelssohn, Russian for the Prokofiev, etc. We were drinking a bottle of wine during the performance, you see...
With some lively music (not just classical) I don't think I can really just sit down, somehow it would feel too constricted.
Quote from: starrynight on May 12, 2011, 12:20:30 AM
With some lively music (not just classical) I don't think I can really just sit down, somehow it would feel too constricted.
Good music should physically move you. I want to cry when I see a classical concert audience all seated neatly in their rows, as unmoving as the dead.
Quote from: Grazioso on May 12, 2011, 04:45:13 AM
Good music should physically move you. I want to cry when I see a classical concert audience all seated neatly in their rows, as unmoving as the dead.
Well, move you isn't quite the "gotta dance" question.
And, why need people wear how they are moved like a message on a T-shirt? ; )
Daily listener, air conductor, amateur enthusiast of music history.
I don't see the "air pianist" option though. ;D
Quote from: Florestan on May 12, 2011, 04:51:05 AM
I don't see the "air pianist" option though. ;D
Exactly!! ;D
air conductor, daily listener and instrumentalist.
a) When will we see an air conducting subforum?
b) Is air conducting causing tornados?
Quote from: ChamberNut on May 11, 2011, 06:14:35 PM
I chose 4 options:
Amateur enthusiast of music history
I really wanted to choose that, but I'd be fooling myself if I did.
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A daily listener
Air Conductor
Air Cellist
:)
These three, I chose. But I must add that I'm a better air violinist, having learnt to play the basics about 15 years ago, than an air cellist.
Ooh, there must be significant differences in air Cello/Violin/viola playing.
Quote from: Tapio Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on May 12, 2011, 07:08:55 AM
Ooh, there must be significant differences in air Cello/Violin/viola playing.
Oh, indeed.
Quote from: Szykneij on May 12, 2011, 07:58:33 AM
One must air sit for the cello.
And if playing un-HIPpily one has to adjust for the phantom presence of the endpin.
Singer, Instrumentalist, Performer, Amateur enthusiast of music history, Weekly listener--well,
at least weekly. It would be "daily" if I could afford the time from my own practice-rehearsal-concert-gig schedule. 8)
Quote from: Tapio Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on May 12, 2011, 06:52:13 AMa) When will we see an air conducting subforum?
Probably very soon, since you suggested it. :)
Quote from: Tapio Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on May 12, 2011, 06:52:13 AMb) Is air conducting causing tornados?
Only on Jupiter. ;D
Wannabe composer/teacher/music historian :)
Quote from: Grazioso on May 12, 2011, 04:45:13 AM
Good music should physically move you. I want to cry when I see a classical concert audience all seated neatly in their rows, as unmoving as the dead.
One (minor) reason I don't go to concerts is how out of place I look head-banging to Beethoven.
But "No, this is Aht, don't you understand? You must give no sign of enjoying the experience, but are permitted (required?) to clap at designated times. That is
all."
What about live and let live? From both directions?
The poll needs a genius option. Tsk.
Well, only for you.
Quote from: jochanaan on May 12, 2011, 12:32:59 PM
Weekly listener--well, at least weekly. It would be "daily" if I could afford the time from my own practice-rehearsal-concert-gig schedule. 8):)
But being a musician don't you have to listen to music at "work" as well, perhaps a lot more attentively than you might do while playing a CD? :)
Quote from: eyeresist on May 12, 2011, 07:10:22 PM
One (minor) reason I don't go to concerts is how out of place I look head-banging to Beethoven.
I always head-bang, keep the rythm with my right foot and tap my hips with the fingers at concerts --- but I do it with a Classical restraint. ;D
In the privacy of my home I'm an unbound Romantic. :D
Quote from: Opus106 on May 13, 2011, 05:57:15 AM
That's new.
Well, it's not exactly the hips, but the part above the knee when you sit --- my English is not good enough: any help?
Quote from: Florestan on May 13, 2011, 05:59:40 AM
Well, it's not exactly the hips, but the part above the knee when you sit
Ah, gotcha.
Quote from: Opus106 on May 13, 2011, 06:06:40 AM
Ah, gotcha.
You certainly did --- but could you name it in proper English? ;D
Quote from: Florestan on May 13, 2011, 06:07:48 AM
You certainly did --- but could you name it in proper English? ;D
The thigh?
№ 35, Julian Assange's thigh . . . .
Quote from: Opus106 on May 13, 2011, 05:51:59 AM
But being a musician don't you have to listen to music at "work" as well, perhaps a lot more attentively than you might do while playing a CD? :)
Indeed I do. 8)