What a quaintly old fashioned definition. Cup of tea in hand when you wrote that?
Haha. You should hear me on country, too. And I prefer the word "discerning".
But you forgot about Bach.
Yes, but I didnt write it.. I googled "define music".Unfortunately I will have to deal with the fact that google also defines dubstep as a form of music..I have a cup of tea in my hand almost permanently, or atleast near by.. you can feel free to send me that earl grey.
And you only get the tea if you fit the composers I listed to the definition.
I have enough earl grey to get me through dolly parton's discography 10 times over unscathed.
Bergamot must be anaesthetising in large doses. Or hallucenogenic. That must be why Twinings took it out.
I will never succumb to Bach! We will always be enemies; in this life and the next.
Haha. You should hear me on country, too.
I'm just trying to get a lot of these musical purists to get off their mount.
this whole "dubstep/rap/country/Justin Bieber's not music" thing is rather ridiculous, don't you think? Of course it's music. It's organized sound. Is it good music? I don't like country or Justin Bieber or (most) dubstep, but I like some rap. You can say what you want about whether or not you like it, but that doesn't make it not music, just, in your opinion, bad music. It's awfully presumptuous to think one person gets to decide that another persons music isn't music.I know at least some of you were joking around, but I see that sense of condescension a lot in classical musicians and it gets old. I got harassed once by a violinist who told me percussion (I'm assuming she meant non-melodic percussion) isn't music. I then, of course, retorted that she shouldn't feel so smug, since her instrument could only play one more note at a time than drums, while I could play 9 more than her on a piano. (Yes, I know a violin can technically play 3 or 4 notes at a time, and a piano can play at least 12, or more, depending on how much you like mashing your fingers, plus accounting for the fact that a note can be held with pedal, but it's more effective as a response if you keep it simple). I've had old (and not so old) people at my church state that modern music is too simple, and it's just noise, as they devoutly listen to their 3 chord hymns Think about it. Wouldn't Mozart be appalled if he heard half the 20th century music so many of us enjoy? I think Mozart would be equally inclined to wonder why someone would listen to Schoenberg as to rap, yet people enjoy both.I'm not trying to make a statement like "Everything is art, the sound of footsteps is music, the wind is music, a white wall is art," I'm just trying to get a lot of these musical purists to get off their mount.
You're right dude. The definition of music is organized sound. So since dubsetp, country, rap is organized sound, then it's music. Music is only the pattern of sound waves of different frequencies and wave lengths vibrating the hairs in your ear, (forgot what they're called) and those vibrations are converted into electrical signals that are then sent to your brain to interpret.But despite that, J_Menz will still admire Bach, and I will still be loyal to my Rachmaninoff!
"Music is sonorous air..." -Ferruccio Busoni
"Thereby hangs a tail.." - Shakespeare (Othello 3/1)
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Never really noticed that before. What a fun lot the Elizabethans were.
'Bigger hands = better pianist'Yeah okay...
A number of threads on this forum would indicate that there are plenty of pianists who believe that as well.
I think you might've misheard the word "pianist" because I've heard that too!
Lol peeanist?
I've noticed a definite switch in pronunciation since I started taking piano lessons 11-12 years ago. People used to say "PI-anist" but now they say "pi-AN-ist". I'm thinking this might have something to do with the dropping maturity rate in people, but maybe I'm imagining it. I still say PI-anist because that's the way I used to say it and I think pi-AN-ist sounds dumb. What do you guys say?
"If you have a lot of concerts you don't have to practice as much, because you are practicing DURING the concert!" ..........
Me: I am playing on a funeral tomorrow, two pieces of ChopinFriend: Will you get payed for it?Me: Yes, 500SEK per piece, so 1000SEK total (1000 SEK are about $150)Friend: Wow, that is REALLY much hourly wage! Pianists must be really rich!Me: Well... If you count in all the practice I will have to do, it's not that much actually.Friend: But the practice is optional, you don't have to practice, so they can't pay you for it..Me: *Silent*
LOL. I actually used to charge people a few hours practice time if they required a specific piece that I didn't know.
My mom said that Bach was stupid.I don't like Bach, but... I wouldn't go that far. That would be a death wish! However, I did get a bit closer to my mother when she said that.
Perhaps, if her chief exposure to his music is hearing you play him, she might have not heard him at his best. Or she's just humouring you. Mothers do that sometimes.
She calls it the "Beethoven song" and she asks me to play it all the time, it's soo freaking annoying?@?@?!?!?!@1
Well I was listening to a youtube recording.She is NOT humoring me! Everything she says is 100% serious and she never changes her mind. The work and composer she knows is Beethovens 5th symphony. She calls it the "Beethoven song" and she asks me to play it all the time, it's soo freaking annoying?@?@?!?!?!@1
As if you first learn classical, to then go over to the "harder" accompanying ...
I was working on my audition repertoire for college. So I have to get that to perfection right? And I'm still not done, so I'm kinda reluctant to practicing at the school again. I've been working on the same 35 minutes of music for the past 8 months now, and I'm still not done. So they're gonna feel salty if they hear the same stuff again.
What are you playing?
Stupid things non-musicians say to us