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Is My Music Pretentious?
Be My Head:
Personally, I think there IS music that's being overplayed which was written by dead white european males. There's room for the classics, and the new and maybe more interesting to us music.
Yeah, Mozart is overplayed, and I'm honestly not much of a fan of his music. If that offends you well then, I don't know what to say.
I think the new thing is mixing live musicians with recordings of electronic music. That seems pretty cool to me and I think we should continue with it. There's also a lot of overlooked compositions from the last century; like stuff from composers such as Toru Takemitsu. And there are some overlooked dead white female european composers that we should revisit. Such as... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1tnzcXPWbI&fmt=18
And some Takemitsu...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT7m9LLB-Ds&fmt=18
Sounds nothing like what those white guys composed.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 06 Aug 2009, 18:57 ---But the majority of bands write new music. Orchestras just play often boring music dead white dudes wrote. Why the fuck does Mozart ever need to be performed ever again? I'm sure we've got some stonking vinyl lying around. New music is much more interesting.
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old dead white dudes? sounds like someone hasn't heard of tallarico-sensei's truly monumental achievement, Video Games Live
Johnny C:
khar's arguments are a wonderful series of arguments in favour of the billion albums of ambient music you can find made by dudes on the internet who have no idea how to write a song or even approach music without turning out the light and fumbling in the darkness like a kid who's never seen a bra before
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 06 Aug 2009, 18:57 ---Orchestras just play often boring music dead white dudes wrote.
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This is just the same dead-end generalisation that you were using against theory. As a counter-example, Stockhausen got orchestras to improvise en masse - I helped engineer the broadcast of one of these by the BBC Symphony Orchestra when I was at the Beeb (the broadcast wasn't as good as the best of the try-outs, sadly).
phooey:
--- Quote from: MadassAlex on 29 Jul 2009, 19:27 ---That doesn't stop you from using the enharmonic notes!
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I am glad you like theory so much and stuff, but the word you're looking for is 'accidental.'
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