Earlier on chatted with a friend about classical music. She asked me why classical music.
So what I like about classical music? I can be biased at time. So, if you wanna read some 'biased' opinion about classical music, read on.
I kinda remember that the classical music that suddenly touched me (FYI, my parents have been listening to both Chinese and Western classical music since I was young) was Beethoven's Symphony #6 (Pastorale)
If you listen after a couple of time, you can really have a picture, of the walk in forest, and then you arrived in a village, seeing people dancing. Then the thunder storm came, spoiled the party, and when the it stopped raining, it was as if, the new life begins again.
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...Due to the constraint at that time, the classical pieces are valuable, because the artist could only express their thought/feeling thru the notes. And it's even without lyrics (except opera)
Unlike the modern music, the expression made easier by using the lyrics and you can enjoy the live music performed by the artist, and at times the artist would even write/talk about what is the music about.
That wasn't really done by the artists during the classical music period.
So to enjoy classical music, you may want to try different approach like how u enjoy pop music, since both of them are kinda in different kind of world
But why 'kinda' different kind of world ?
Cos classical music is still influential.
Just take Canon in D for example
Just take Bach's Minuet in G for example
They are the music that, if you let people listen and most of them would say 'yeah, i heard of this before'
Where, in the case of you let them listen a #1 pop song in july 1995
They may say ' i think i heard it before'
That's the beauty of classical music.. that's the longevity that classical music has been enjoying.
It's just the fact that classical music has managed to survive centuries after centuries
Which, even, The Beatles may also have issue to be remembered in the next century ;)
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