Classical Music-Is it dead or what?

[Deuce Bigolo]

I know it began way back but is it still being made or is it just resting on its laurels

What have todays composers created to rival the greats from yesteryear?

Its easily the most used music going around

Commercials & film Scores without classical music would be shite,do you agree or disagree?

[Pervert]

It's not a dead form. Some composers are still writing, and some rock musicians even try their hand at it. Part of the problem is it is perceived as stodgy and boring. Some of it undoubtedly is. But try listening to Saint Saen's Danse Macabre, or the first movement of Elgar's Cello doo-dah, or Rodrigo's guitar thingy, and if all the hairs on the back of your neck don't stand up, then you're probably dead.

If you're doing a version of Let It Be, for example, you can try a different arrangement, make it faster or slower, change the emphasis . . . . classical music doesn't seem to encourage that, and therefore can seem rather moribund.

Never been a big fan of Mozart; don't know why. Too many notes, perhaps

[Deuce Bigolo]

I wouldn't know one dead composers compostions from the next to tell the truth

Give me the best of each and forget the rest...someof those doo-dahs & thingys are really moving,if your in the mood or on the planet

It wasn't that long ago that all those metal heads went all orchestra
ie metallica so there must be something outside the scope of popular & unplugged that is seen as commercially appealing

[Pervert]

Howard Shore's Lord Of The Rings music is pretty damned impressive.

Most music forms, even jazz, have something worth listening to, that can draw a listener in. If that listener is then inspired to try other stuff, all the better.

[Deuce Bigolo]

I got to say film scores without the film sometimes fall flat

I'm not sure who the music was by but theres a scene in l
Last of the mohickans(spelling?)l when daniel day lewis is running to save
and old indian warrior...simply breath taking...without that story you wonder what impact it would have

I agree some of the older forms or more succinctly simpler basic forms where the instruments do the talking and not the tech gaddets

I heard a song recently which sounded like 20s/30s jazz called
leave me alone by natalie imbruglia that knocked me for six

Just simply different to everything else I'd heard but I'm sure there would be those more knowledgeable to say so & so does it better etc etc

[Pervert]

JJ was recently mourning the lack of lute music, and I can see his point. It is a majestic instrument. Lots of older instruments have fallen out of fashion, but make amazing sounds.

Last Of The Mohicans was a great movie, and the music did add to the atmosphere and the emotion. American Beauty is another example of the film composer's art. And Miller's Crossing.

[Deuce Bigolo]

Theres shed loads of instruments that have been made irrelevant
by technology but they miss the point if you can't replicate it live then its an empty creation

Its only when you go along to a live gig and hear someone playing say a mandolin that your aware of the diversity that each instrument can bring to a song

I suppose we will have to wait for Pokies to be banned before live music will ever return to its former glory days of providing entertainment

[bobbyreb]

howard shore is fantastic, speaking as a fairly uneducated music fan.Wasn't there a guy who posted here who was a proffesor of music?

[Sam Slater]

Yeah I remember him. Forgot his name though.

[bobbyreb]

steve r?