I dont like most of germanic and similar classical music.
Its really dead compared to the fire in some of the music of traditional eastern or southern european music and music frome elsewhere.
The composers often had lost any contact to the real magic energy of ancient music and of the music in nature and life itself.
They had often lost the knowledge that good music is either extatic, meditative or euphoric in a good way or for firey dances and healing passion.
Almost all european classic music has the dead beat rhythm of machines, too much influence by early capitalist, industrialist, mechanical machine worshipping rich people that lost any contact with magic people living an intense, free life like gypsies for example.
Theres no mechanic machine rhythms in nature- the infinitely strong beats in nature are all rubati. Volcanoes, storms, solar eruptions, waves are the most rubati and the strongest things in the world and machines are nothing compared to that- not the strongest machine of the world could survive the rubati of a volcanic eruption for example.
Early capitalist/industrialised mechanic, intellectual and often psychologically depressing/ill/sick music does mostly not heal or extatic but just makes sick.
Certainly, most known composers had some good moments where even their dead mechanic rhythm music sounds like something a bit alive but in most of the cases its nothing compared to the magic fire in gipsy music for example.
And worse, many of the celebrated composers were no people to get too involved with cause some of them were more or less bad people in private life and worse, did stuff for money too much and had a sick sexual life instead of healing, respectful erotic life.
So I dont think that boring, overintellectualized, mechanical and often sick music is so interesting or healthy to get too involved into.
Anyways, you just have to liberate your own creativity and then I am sure most of you can do a much better job in writing music than most of what the celebrated composers produced for money or whatever bad reasons.
If you want to be overintellectual, you can get even this done in beautiful magic music or do other things like creative writing, painting, sculpture, architecture, gardening and other stuff that makes your music much richer.
have a nice day
It's interesting how we get these preferences, isn't it? This is a bit like I feel about Mozart, but it's because his music is much too formulaic. Virtually all the chord progressions are hackneyed, done to death, and he's done them all hundreds of times before.
But I don't feel the same about the whole genre. I'm passionate about the musical forms of J S Bach, who does sometimes recycle harmonic forms, but more often he seems to be endlessly exploring, re-hashing, tweaking, trying to surprise the listener. It would also be hard to imagine a composer who was more genuinely pious, studious and long-suffering. His music expresses extasy, meditation and euphoria in abundance, along with the deepest sorrow, yearning, hope and patience.
I was surprised to hear your view of such a wide genre, particularly about the mechanical style of it. Rubati? I'm not sure I quite understand. Eastern, gypsy music, like virtually all traditional music, includes the clear, sharp beats of drums and other percussive instruments, played (by the most skilled) accurately on the beats, for the sake of exciting the listener, who might also be a dancer. How can you dance well and enjoyably if the rhythm isn't precise? And if a beat is precise, isn't it, in a sense, "mechanical", or indistinguishable from beats made by machines?
Much "germanic and similar classical music" - including much of Bach's work - was actual dance forms. We don't do those dances, on the whole, anymore, so we forget. Some are joyful or frantic; some are stately; some are delicate.
No criticism - at the end of the day, opinions are just what they are, and who knows where they come from? Loads of people love Mozart, for reasons I'll probably never understand!