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Anyone know of anything of those qualities?
I want something like that to listen to....thanks! |
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Mahler. Other people will tell you Shostakovitch, but I wouldn't. I think Mahler is more impressive.
Or do you want actual piece names instead of composers? |
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"Septomor" Mahler. Other people will tell you Shostakovitch, but I wouldn't. I think Mahler is more impressive. Snobbish much? Everyone's entitled to their opinions. I wasn't even going to bring up Shostakovich, actually, as the OP specified "Romantic". If you really want to go overboard, I'd suggest Tchaikovsky, though I'm not much of a fan. (Although I did have trouble playing his 5th symphony after I figured out that the big theme fits delightfully to the words "I have to go to the bathroom!" wink |
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snobbish...I just thought many people would see "dark" and think immediately of Shostakovitch. If you were to ask me though, I don't see really the difference between Shostakovitch's music being romantic and modern. But I'm snobbish so my opinion has no value >.<
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"Septomor" snobbish...I just thought many people would see "dark" and think immediately of Shostakovitch. If you were to ask me though, I don't see really the difference between Shostakovitch's music being romantic and modern. But I'm snobbish so my opinion has no value >.< I'm going to n** this in the bud before it grows into some pernicious, nasty thing. My snobbish comment was out of line. Of course your opinion has value! I see Shostakovich as more of a modernist because of his less famous symphonic output. Maybe I'm listening to the wrong things, but I have trouble classifying his fourth symphony as anything but modern. And some of his string quartets...! That being said, some of the preludes and fugues from his cycle of twenty four would not look out of place coming from Bach, so.... |
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I don't even think I should be in a position to say what is modern music. It is my least experienced field of music as far as I know. But I do know what romantic music sounds like. So as far as sound, I would say romantic, but yes. I hear he's a modern composer more often. I'm not sure, maybe there's no real reason to debate this.
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"Septomor" I don't even think I should be in a position to say what is modern music. It is my least experienced field of music as far as I know. But I do know what romantic music sounds like. So as far as sound, I would say romantic, but yes. I hear he's a modern composer more often. I'm not sure, maybe there's no real reason to debate this. Modern's a hard genre to pin down, partially because there are so many different camps. There are Minimalists, Neo-Classicists, Serialists, Impressionists, and a whole host of others, none of which sound very much like each other, necessarily. Shosti definitely has his Romantic moments, but I think on the whole he tends towards Modernism. But no, there really isn't any reason to debate this... |
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As people have already said, Mahler's good for that (specifically his Symphony No 9) and Tchaikovsky, as well as maybe some Schubert? That might not be "dark" enough though. Hmm.
And there's always Prokofiev or something, but since I saw the whole Shosty debacle up there I probably won't go into that. Oh, and also - maybe Saint-Saens? |
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