[ExI] for classical music lovers only

[William Flynn Wallace]

Adrian -I listened. Classical??  You listen to this sort of thing on a
daily basis?  Have you ever been in therapy? This is music that is
primarily about the words.  The music was probably made up when the band
got together to put words to music, much like commercials and Nashville
country music.  My hearing deficit does not permit me, usually, to even
understand the words, regardless of volume.  So it's like opera music sung
in Italian:  I really don't care what is being said.  It's mostly soap
opera anyway.  The joy is in the sound of the voice and accompanying music
-using the voice as just another instrument which could even be singing
lalalalala.  bill w

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:56 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog was a notable production within that
> timespan, that conveyed a lot but not all of its plot through its songs.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_hlaXcniY&list=PL78B0B3p_qZQPO8VVNTRf6wSDP9ebIoTQ
> has the playlist (plus two non-song entries, which you can ignore for this
> exercise).
>
> The second LEGO Movie might be interesting to do this exercise with too.
> Soundtrack at
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUEbWo1uIrg&list=PL5uTL9oHnU9gbfDveKd1kVKcXwydBb-1i
> .
>
> Granted, neither of these is particularly "old", but you limited it to the
> past 20 years.
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:42 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> You  know, I have had this thought:  what if we heard the movie music
>> before we saw the movie?  After seeing the movie, we will have visual
>> images to go with most of the music, memory allowing.  ("I go to the
>> hills....."  Julie Andrews in an Alpine meadow)  The questions are:  can
>> the music stand alone?  Will your like or dislike of the scenes the music
>> accompanies influence your liking or disliking of the music?  I suppose a
>> test could be listening to old movie music whose movie you have not seen.
>> Or maybe someone in the group can tell me a movie they liked, and I can
>> listen to the score - or part of it, at least, should be on Youtube - an
>> invaluable resource.
>>
>> I have seen practically nothing in the last 20 years or so, so
>> please recommend a score.  (thanks Stuart)
>>
>> bill w
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 7:56 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Bill Wallace wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:36 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
>>> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>> > I am at the point where I think I know just about every piece up until
>>> > about 1900 or maybe 1930 that I like.  So after that I am looking for
>>> > new music to buy.  I get the American Record Guide and buy CDs
>>> > based on reviews and have a success rate of maybe 10%.  The
>>> > others I give away.
>>> >
>>> > So, I am interested in finding out from other classical music lovers
>>> > who, since 1900, has become a favorite whose music I might like.  If
>>> > a composer is famous I very likely know all I need to know about
>>> > him or her.
>>>
>>> I would get the musical scores from the Star Wars movies performed by
>>> the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In so far as classical music can be
>>> considered a genre instead of a musical period ending in the 1800s,
>>> then John Williams is one of the best modern classical music
>>> composers. He is why the Star Wars movies are "space opera" instead of
>>> "space theater" or "space story".
>>>
>>> Stuart LaForge
>>>
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