Second to last post wins!!!!!!

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Rach was being supportive of a friend and Liszt was just being humble. Keep the dense textures of Medtner and empty virtuosity of Alkan. I'll keep Chopin and Rach—Who actually understood that the piano is an instrument not a calculator.

1. This makes it a lot more obvious that you used predictive text, lol.

2. Medtner isn't any "denser" than Rachmaninoff; if anything Rachmaninoff often writing music to fit his giant hands made his pieces a lot "denser" than Medtner's.

3. Alkan isn't "empty virtuosity" and I made an entire thread debunking this: https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=80296.0.

4. Chopin and Rachmaninoff knew how to write fairly simple, "easy listening" music that doesn't need to be analyzed very heavily at all to be thoroughly enjoyed. Contrast this with Medtner, whose works almost always need at least a few listens to grow on you, or Alkan, whose genius only becomes apparent after you extensively analyze the piece in question (as I said in the "Alkan is not 'empty virtuosity'" thread, this is ignoring his early period).

5. If you want a composer who treated piano as a mathematical instrument, then I suggest Xenakis. :)

Also, new page.

[j_tour]

Just saw this, and before I respond I just want to show everyone how much red underline there is:

You deserve it.  A lot of red in there.  What are you a communist or something?

[j_tour]

Oxford English Dictionary.

Learn it, know it, live it.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

HOW FUCKINBG DATRE YOU.[/size]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Shame

I just don't like Mozart's solo piano compositions, lol. His contemporaries (e.g. Clementi) are much better in that regard, though Mozart is unmatched for chamber/orchestral music (at least until 1877).

[j_tour]

I came on Tom Hulce's face once.  That's one degree of separation from Mozart.

That's right.  Giddyap.

[j_tour]

Chop chop, Fu Manchu.  Time's a wasting, but thighs are basting. 

You just going to watch this time? 

That's another bill as a service fee.

Pay up, Geronimo.  Or Hieronymus, if that is your real name.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

I am no longer busy, so I can probably expand the pieces in scoreguessr now.

From what I can see, doesn't look like this came to pass.

AP exams, or are those over?

[liszt-and-the-galops]

I don;'t.

Given your comments about them, I think it's safe to say that you've interacted with a lot less of them than I have, so my faith in that community is more justified than your lack of faith.

[j_tour]

From what I can see, doesn't look like this came to pass.

AP exams, or are those over?

You got a lot of nerve coming in here, with your "go-go" attitude and your smarmy ways. 

How many ways can I say "git!"?  There's 50 ways to leave your lover, but for you it's only the town drain.

2. Medtner isn't any "denser" than Rachmaninoff; if anything Rachmaninoff often writing music to fit his giant hands made his pieces a lot "denser" than Medtner's.

That's adorable.  It confused "dense" for "sparse."  One of these days it may be walking and using words like a simian or even a child.

[j_tour]

Just like a young man, coming in for a quickie.

You must feel proud and good.

Strong enough to beat the world.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Getting back to the "thread statistics" tracker thingy, I'm planning to catch up on it pretty soon. Expect it to get posted around July-August.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Given your comments about them, I think it's safe to say that you've interacted with a lot less of them than I have, so my faith in that community is more justified than your lack of faith.

I may as well add that I think a lot of the reason people don't like that community is because the loudest group happens to be the (extremely loud) NSFW part of it. Imagine if the only things aliens knew about humans came from pornhub.

Still, you can find plenty of the non-NSFW variety even just by stumbling on it. Though if you recoil at the sight of fur, then you'll probably have blocked most of the communities where they exist.

Also, if you recoil at the sight of fur, maybe this will win me the thread:

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How do you make a beaver grin, thou child?

HI J TOUR!!!!!!

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I just don't like Mozart's solo piano compositions, lol. His contemporaries (e.g. Clementi) are much better in that regard, though Mozart is unmatched for chamber/orchestral music (at least until 1877).

You don't like K 533? That's some of the most beautiful counterpoint ever written.

[j_tour]

HI J TOUR!!!!!!

Hello to you too, you angry little parrot.

[j_tour]

You don't like K 533? That's some of the most beautiful counterpoint ever written.

I dare say there was some legato octave arpeggi in there somewhere.  But I've been wrong before, and I could be mistaken.

But, if the child doesn't care for the music Mozart made at his primary instrument, well, that's just a darn shame then, innit?

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I dare say there was some legato octave arpeggi in there somewhere.  But I've been wrong before, and I could be mistaken.

Yeah but it's so delicious. Good music can have bad counterpoint, but if it sounds good to me, then I like it.

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Hello to you too, you angry little parrot.

I'm not angry; I'm just elated to see you here.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

You don't like K 533? That's some of the most beautiful counterpoint ever written.

K. 533 is an exception... in some cases. I love Alicia de Larrocha's recording, but (e.g.) I don't particularly like Uchida's and really don't like Barenboim's.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

In my experience it seems to be a particularly extreme example of "Mozart is impossible to get right."

...Though people who say that need to listen to de Larrocha's Mozart. Or they have and they're just snobs and/or misogynists.

[j_tour]

I'm not angry; I'm just elated to see you here.

Compliments, I'm sure.

I have yearned for you for several years, and now I am satisfied.

[j_tour]

Yeah but it's so delicious. Good music can have bad counterpoint, but if it sounds good to me, then I like it.

Sure can. 

Bad music can have good counterpoint in a specific form as well.

Me?

I just throw it on the stoop and see if the cat licks it up.

Only way to be sure.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

HNever.

Honestly, even given the context, I don't know if this was supposed to be "ever" or "never," lol.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Which, I suppose, indicates the need for everyone to clearly communicate.

[j_tour]

The cat

[j_tour]

Licks it up.

From the stoop.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Not much to say right now, though I suppose it's always a bit weird when gasplamey misses a weekend.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Of course now that I say that they'll promptly post about five minutes after I log off.

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Not here now, either...

[liszt-and-the-galops]

What a delightful conversation about nothing! :)

[liszt-and-the-galops]

So once again you get to see this sentence that you've probably seen at least 25 times by now, if you've read the entire thread.