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Hawksong

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What about "old" music?
« on: 20 Nov 2007, 05:54 »
Heyas-- been reading the forums and getting slowly but steadily more confused. I got into "indie" music because of this comic-- yes really, I had never heard of indie rock before I got turned onto QC. However, pre-QC, I listened to a LOT of music...I was a vocal performance undergrad with a side interest in musicology (or music history if you want to call it that). Sooooo...how about "old" music as it were? By which I mean not only classical, but 20th-Century composers of music that could be termed "art music"? I myself have composed a few pieces, but I also know several professional composers, and I think their music is also valid and worth listening to...anyone else here know or appreciate that kind of music, too?
I'd post links or clips if I had any, but it's amazing how you can almost never find, say, Eric Whitacre on YouTube or what have you.

For the record, if anyone wants to do some serious searching, the composer I am currently very impressed with is named J.D. Frizzell-- he's verrry good.
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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #1 on: 20 Nov 2007, 20:48 »
Oliver Messiaen. Amazing composer, i was thinking of uploading some of his work to the sendspace thread right now, as a matter of fact!
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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #2 on: 20 Nov 2007, 21:53 »
I studied baroque and classical trumpet briefly. I'm not really that into it any more, though. A friend of mine is studying composition and is well into serialist composers, and has written a few pieces based around stuff like the electromagnetic spectrum and such.

Other than that, I don't mind a bit of Erik Satie or John Zorn every now and then. Haven't really heard many other contemporary "classical" composers (or whatever they call the genre these days). I'd probably give anything uploaded a listen, though...
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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #3 on: 20 Nov 2007, 23:55 »
Quote from: E. Spaceman on 20 Nov 2007, 20:48
Oliver Messiaen. Amazing composer, i was thinking of uploading some of his work to the sendspace thread right now, as a matter of fact!

Wow, definitely have to second this one as well. Olivier Messiaen's compositions are absolutely amazing.

Even though it's obvious, I'll throw Édith Piaf out there for good measure. :)
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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #4 on: 21 Nov 2007, 00:11 »
PALESTRINA

Some really awesome monk chant composer from the renaissance. His compositions were what convinced the Catholic Church to accept polyphony. Really, really nice stuff, can't recommend anything specific but his stuff shouldn't be too hard to find.
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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #5 on: 21 Nov 2007, 03:32 »
Quote from: E. Spaceman on 20 Nov 2007, 20:48
Oliver Messiaen. Amazing composer, i was thinking of uploading some of his work to the sendspace thread right now, as a matter of fact!

Do it! I love Messiaen, but all my stuff by him was on my now dead hard drive.
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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #6 on: 21 Nov 2007, 05:14 »
Oh yeah, Messiaen is awesome :)  I particularly liked "Quartet for the End of Time."

I'll dig up some stuff to upload, definitely, once I find it...somewhere in this crate... :-P

Palestrina is probably my favorite early polyphony composer. Sooooo much more fun to listen to than Ockeghem  :roll:

Anyone ever listen to Eric Whitacre? I have some mp3s of his I can upload sooner than my other stuff, so I'll do that now. I've actually sung some his work and it's incredible to experience and to sing. Especially Cloudburst.
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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #7 on: 21 Nov 2007, 05:24 »
Inon Zur is an Israeli composer who does amazing things for the scores of video games and such. You should probably check out the stuff he has for download here.
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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #8 on: 21 Nov 2007, 05:25 »
I like!

Have you listened to any Jack Wall? Among other fun stuffs he did music for some of the Myst series.
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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #9 on: 21 Nov 2007, 11:11 »
Quote from: Hawksong on 21 Nov 2007, 05:25
I like!

Have you listened to any Jack Wall? Among other fun stuffs he did music for some of the Myst series.

Some of the best music to write to ever.
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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #10 on: 21 Nov 2007, 14:02 »
Quote from: Hawksong on 21 Nov 2007, 05:14
Anyone ever listen to Eric Whitacre? I have some mp3s of his I can upload sooner than my other stuff, so I'll do that now. I've actually sung some his work and it's incredible to experience and to sing. Especially Cloudburst.

I am quite the Whitacre fan. My high school select choir tried to perform a piece of his, but unfortunately, it's very hard things for a 16 piece choir to do. I actually have his Cloudburst album, which has most of his major choral works condensed into a block of musical crack.
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Hawksong

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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #11 on: 23 Nov 2007, 12:08 »
Our primary collegiate choir did Cloudburst and Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine, in the same year (the year they went to Carnegie Hall, in fact-- that was University of Southern Mississippi Chorale, the year of Hurricane Katrina).
The choir I sing with (the Concert Choir, kind of second fiddle to the main Chorale but still a good group) did "A Boy and a Girl" by Whitacre, this fall. It was VERY difficult and required a lot of work! But sooooo worth it!
I'm still trying to find my copy of "I thank you God" by JD Frizzell...grrrrr...wanna upload it, but no CD in sight yet.
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Re: What about "old" music?
« Reply #12 on: 23 Nov 2007, 12:42 »
Guys, Igor Stravinsky. The Rite of Spring may be the greatest piece of music ever.
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