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There were some good points in this thread about attention span and the length of classical pieces. Being a young guy, I thought of some reasons that young people in particular might find it hard to "get into" classical: (1) it often has no lyrics that they can relate to (2) it doesn't have a lifest...

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Well I don't know if this is worthy of consideration: I am buying more Classical CDs than I would otherwise do because were it not for the internet and the fact that I can easily access a site like this, seek and get advice, then I wouldn't be buying as many as I am. In addition to that the net doe...

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Interesting to learn a bit about the history of this place.

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^ What the heck is this person trying to say? ----- I grew up with rock and pop, but during high school my main musical interest became electronic music of all kinds. I discovered classical when I was 20 or 21 with a "music appreciation" course in college. The first composition I remember really enj...

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There can't be 100 percent support for free trade because progress in one region entails underdevelopment in another region. ...But now that this process is global what are people from losing regions expected to do? What do you mean by "losing regions?" Ones that are less efficient at producing goo...

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Chinese are poor it is good that we buy their stuff, it is allowing millions of people to rise above $1-day poverty Exactly right. Free trade is ultimately beneficial for all parties, assuming that the parties to the trade have accurate knowledge about its costs and benefits. Sadly, many politician...

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In a recent dream there was some kind of symphonic music in the background and I was actually singing over it.

Of course, in reality I have an unpleasant singing voice and no vocal training, but I sounded pretty good in the dream.

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Sometimes, but the music is always unique to the dream (something I have never heard before), and usually forgotten shortly after awakening.

I guess my brain likes to create its own music for dreams rather than borrowing from waking life.

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Have to agree with John. I found much of it uninteresting and unpleasantly random-sounding.

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As I understand the Kansas case, researches have not yet established how the man got Creutzfeldt-Jakob -- whether by eating contaminated beef, inheriting it, or some other means.

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The opening post made me laugh.

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Apparently they are not preludes to anything in particular: http://www.chopinmusic.net/en/works/preludes/ "In spite of this example, however, Chopin created something completely new. Originally the french word “prélude” means nothing more than “introduction,” but in this form Chopin let the 24 prelu...

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ichiro wrote:Recently, there was a great score to There Will be Blood by Johny Greenwood (from the band radiohead). Its a strong score from a non-classical composer, very modern sounding.

I enjoyed that score quite a bit. Really fit the movie well.

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nadej_batiste wrote:Before you do ANYTHING ELSE, listen to music. I'm sure, since you're here, that you already do it...but that is the first step to music...listen first, play later. And yes, find yourself a good piano teacher!

Yeah, I have the listening part down.

Thanks for the advice, everyone.

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This thread is fascinating and informative.

Thanks to everybody who has posted.

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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument, and an unsuspected yearning to learn to play on it, that are bound to wake up and demand attention some day. Therefore, you who rail at such as disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful a...

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I've loved Brahms since I bought his piano concertos and Haydn Variations.

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karlhenning wrote:"Languague of Shakespeare"?

Haha! Indeed...

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Hmm, this sounds like it may be worth a look.

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Most people would refer to the ultra-romantic Andrea Bocelli and ultra- hunky Il-Divo as classical. Since these two examples probably out sell much of what this forum considers classical I would say the numbers above would need to be adjusted by about 99%. :D There is definitely a point there. It s...

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I would love to get a piano if I had a more permanent place to live.

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dirkronk wrote:These days, the ONLY places to find classical are Border's, Barnes & Noble, and the few used CD places around town. Sad...

Yep, I buy from Barnes & Noble.

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What I don't understand is why it still has so much appeal among the middle-aged. Nostalgia? That might be part of it. Another thing, I think, is that it may just be more difficult for a person who grows up listening mainly to simple, easily accessible music to break into more "opaque" kinds of mus...

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I think the key factors are more free time and disposable cash among the young. Those are what made a profitable, widespread youth culture possible. Once those came about, the popularity battle was essentially over. Rock began as kiddie music. Some guitars with a fun beat to get teens and young adul...

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I was mostly kidding with that comment. When I cast my vote, it will be for reasons other than spite.

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I don't think she'll win, but I kind of hope that she does just because it will irritate all those voters who gave us eight years of George W. Bush.

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There isn't really much of a gender disparity in Internet usage anymore. This article, for examples gives only a two percent difference.

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keaggy220 wrote:You're funny. http://www.classicalarchives.com/demographics.html

Wow.

I wasn't trying to be facetious, by the way: I really didn't know.

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keaggy220 wrote:We do know that more men enjoy classical than women.

We do? I would be interested in some data on this.

And if that is true, why is it?

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DavidRoss wrote:J.K. Rowling's books have probably done more to encourage the iPod generation to read than all of PBS's efforts combined.

Ah, but what will they read now that the Harry Potter series has ended?

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jbuck919 wrote:I overheard one woman remark: "That was nice but if only he hadn't repeated that theme so many times."

Heh. The funny thing is that non-classical music, at least the more popular stuff, tends to be far more repetitive.

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I was responding to the conversation of knotslip and henry about the "mosquito" ring-tone.

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Anyone have a spectrum analyzer they can put on this file. My spectrum analyzer said that the tone was actually around 15,000 Hz. If anybody is interested, you can download Audacity , which has a "tone generator," and test the upper frequency bounds of your ears (or the upper frequency bounds of yo...

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I agree with both of you. But we seem to see a substantial number of people who come to classical music relatively late, after having tried other types of music. I was one of those. Although I do wish someone had given me a decent sampling of what was out there before I took a music history course ...

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Almost nobody my age seems to like it, for example. Even some people who perform in the orchestra at my university seem to have little interest in listening to classical music, and asking them for favorite composers may draw up a blank. It seems like they generally listen to the same bunch of pop as...

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jbuck919 wrote:In years like this, leaves fall off the trees before they can change.

That happens every year here, unfortunately.

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Warm in Texas, but that's normal at almost any time of the year.

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Yes, it is.

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Wow, thanks for the responses.

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For a while I have had this CD of chamber music by Milhaud and enjoyed it very much. It was one of the first CDs of classical music that I bought. I had happened to see his Second Sonata for Viola and Piano performed live, fell in love with it immediately, and purchased the disc soon after. Anyway, ...

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I agree.

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Brahms - Piano Concerto #1. Third movement now.

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It seems like musicians who can do that do know the rules, though, in some kind of intuitive sense. Just as a native speaker of a language can speak perfectly grammatical or even beautiful sentences without knowing how to diagram a sentence, how to write his language, or even the names for the vario...

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Which Rorty piece is that from? I hadn't seen that before.

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IcedNote wrote:When listening, do you consciously track a piece's form?

I often try to do so, but since my knowledge and musical training are quite limited, I have a lot of trouble with it.

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karlhenning wrote:It's a nice change from the "Shakespeare didn't really write Shakespeare" crowd

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And just what about that do you disagree with? I don't know enough about Mozart scholarship to discuss Newman's claims. Seriously, Yes, he has been here but Attila the Honey who proudly calls herself Corlyss quickly made mince meat of him I see. I was just wondering because I had encountered Newman...

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I noticed a "Robert Newman" there, the guy who believes that most of the works thought to be written by Mozart were not actually written by him. Has that one ever posted on this forum?

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A few years ago, having been assigned the whole Fifth Symphony as a listening exercise for an introductory music class, I got through the famous first movement well enough. And then I heard the second, which is probably what "hooked" me on classical music.

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Truth be told, I haven't given either of those two symphonies a close enough listening to decide which I prefer, and reading this thread makes me realize that I left my box set of Beethoven's symphonies at home. I have the Fifth and Sixth on my computer and am listening to the Sixth now.

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