Classical music

[Desmo]

Do you like it? Are you a regular listener, something you close your eyes, lean back and feel, or is it something you "don't mind" if it's being played in the background?
I'm a bit partial to Chopin at the moment, he seems to suit my current mood.

[g0zer]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asDXpfFMKNA&feature=fvst]YouTube - Chopin, Nocturne, opus 27 #2, solo piano[/ame]

classical music sets my teeth on edge

doesnt look easy to play

[Kryzaach]

I really can't take too much of it, the closest I get is stuff like this:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc55e8ZlKFM"]YouTube - E Nomine ~ 'Deine Welt'[/ame]

Actually now that I think about it, all my favourite music has classical elements....

Edit: Techno version wtf?!

Updated with Classical version.

[Captain Starfish]

Mozart when I'm trying to concentrate on worky stuff - it's so progressively mathematical it slots things in.

Strauss when I'm feeling like floating speedily.

Bach when I'm feeling serious.

Wagner for agro.

Rimsky-Korsakov when I'm masturbating into the bowl of chicken blood...

[Sventek]

Bach's Toccata and Fugue does it for me. I like the mathematics of a piece that winds up and then plays itself backwards in a seemless way.

[vbroom]

two of my all time favourites

debussy
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o]YouTube - Debussy, Clair de lune (Twilight soundtrack? piano music)[/ame]

eric satie
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xe2Rft62Kg]YouTube - Gymnopedie No. 1.[/ame]

[Desmo]

I'm not a mathematician, never have been, but I have heard there is an intricate beauty and elegance in mathematics (possibly the same beauty and elegance I see in physics and certain of it's theories?), is it true that music, especially classical, has this same beauty in the way it is composed?

[Sventek]

I'm not a mathematician, never have been, but I have heard there is an intricate beauty and elegance in mathematics (possibly the same beauty and elegance I see in physics and certain of it's theories?), is it true that music, especially classical, has this same beauty in the way it is composed?

It certainly was with Bach. If you're REALLY interested, grab a copy of An Eternal Golden Braid and read all about it.

[Desmo]

Just reading up, and apparently the Fibonacci succession is incorporated into most of his music.
I always was under the impression that music=mathematics=music, but had never actually looked into it.

[vbroom]

fo sho

many classical pieces can be broken down with maths and golden ratios and fibonacci sequences and a whole heap of other maths mumbo jumbo

just like looking at some massive engineering marvel..you can begin to fathom the amount of maths and physics and just everything being able to come together so perfectly to create something amazing.

same goes when you listen to a classical piece. when you listen closely you hear all these notes and harmonies that go together so precisely and perfectly it becomes apparent that there are a heap of amazing underlying systems coming together to create it.

[Sumatie]

Like it listen to it. Has to suit the moment.

[Mex]

Seen WASO and the Fremantle Chamber Orchestra a number of times and think classical is great - specially when you go somewhere to especially to listen to it (not just as back ground music)... Also seen David Helfgott in concert - was mezmorising...

[Desmo]

many classical pieces can be broken down with maths and golden ratios and fibonacci sequences and a whole heap of other maths mumbo jumbo

Is mathematics universal or is it just a human construct?

[02keilj]

not really classical but i listen to the String Quartet covers of bands such as Guns n Roses, alot of the songs are softer and do sound quite good. Especially sweet child o mine. i leave it in the background when cooking or something just so im not in silence

[vbroom]

Is mathematics universal or is it just a human construct?

hard to say

universal in that it could be said that it is the underlying system for alot of things if not everything

and human construct in that humans have created a language to describe it and to decipher its applications to...well...everything really.

i'd probably go with universal...only we've figured it out and gave it the name 'mathematics'

[Desmo]

not really classical but i listen to the String Quartet covers of bands such as Guns n Roses, alot of the songs are softer and do sound quite good. Especially sweet child o mine. i leave it in the background when cooking or something just so im not in silence

Like putting retreads on a GP bike you mean?

[Captain Starfish]

Is mathematics universal or is it just a human construct?

The universe is too cool for mathematics. It just does stuff.

Mathematics is just stuff we make up to help us think we understand the universe.



mmmk going to sober up now.

Tchaikovsky thanks.

[Vincenzo]

Whilst liking many styles of music, I have always preferred classical ever since childhood.

Apart from some of the 'really well known' composers, also like others too:

Shostakovich (Gadfly & Jazz suites)
Janacek (Sinfonietta & Taras Bulba)
Saint Saens (Organ Symphony)
Sibelius (Karelia Suite)
Delius (Florida Suite & The First Cuckoo in Spring)
Gershwin (Concerto in F & Rhapsody in Blue)

[Professor Redfern]

A modern day counter part for you mate.

Basil Poledouris.

If you arent hard by 2.30 of this song then hand in your man card and see a doctor.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QoAM0Kl-50&feature=related]YouTube - Conan the Barbarian - Riddle of Steel-Riders of Doom[/ame]

Some Destroyer as well.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JH00B8X4Uo&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JH00B8X4Uo&feature=related[/ame]

[PatB]

If you haven't ridden....erm...briskly on a fun road at sunrise on a sunny day, with Ode to Joy echoing in your head, you have a soul made of cold boiled string .