I put it in a script once. 
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And what happened to it?
Well it was used. I don;t put stage directions in just for the fun of it ! 
Quote: Shandonbelle @ May 18 2012, 10:12 AM BSTMy fav is Clair de lune...just curious if this link will work http://youtu.be/CvFH_6DNRCY
Cheers Shandy, but 'meh'. I don't seem to like Debussy.
(I'm sure he's devastated)
Quote: AJGO @ May 18 2012, 11:46 AM BST(I'm sure he's devastated)
I'd say he may even be deadastated 
You see? Dead, dead, dead
Poor George 
Ach, he'll be no more dead than the rest of us. Although this is probably a good thread for getting that funeral music sorted..
I rather wish I hadn't put that idea in my head, am focusing on my funeral playlist instead of working. Can't decide on the big classical piece though, all the ones I love aren't quite right for the occasion. Carmina Burana too used, Pavane too sad, Trill Sonata too making an effort. Being dead to a decent soundtrack is surprisingly difficult.
Ariel Ramirez - Misa Criolla : Gloria
(But is that really Monty Don on guitar?)
Interesting thread... In the last few years I've got involved with early music, partly for working purposes. A revelation!
The great English renaissance in music was always thought to be Elgar, Holst, Delius, Parry, Stanford etc. as it was bit quiet before then, but go back 300-400 hundred years- William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, John Dowland, Purcell... dozens more. Someone a while back asked for soothing music- much of this is, whether instrumental or choral. I'm suspecting that the works of 'One Dimension' or whatever they're called won't last 400 weeks...ouch
In Europe, same era- Monteverdi, Victoria, Lully, Rameau, Dufay, Couperin, Vivaldi, Gesualdo, Josquin des Pres, Palestrina...
All mostly before JS Bach, who is the pinnacle for me. Except, perhaps...the string quartets from Haydn and Mozart- leading to the extraordinary Beethoven series, op18, op54, and then the 'late quartets' up to op 135.
Then so much Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Bartok... Too much to listen to, but they're worth it.
Quote: Fred C Dobbs @ September 6 2013, 6:07 PM BSTInteresting thread... In the last few years I've got involved with early music, partly for working purposes. A revelation!
The great English renaissance in music was always thought to be Elgar, Holst, Delius, Parry, Stanford etc. as it was bit quiet before then, but go back 300-400 hundred years- William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, John Dowland, Purcell... dozens more. Someone a while back asked for soothing music- much of this is, whether instrumental or choral. I'm suspecting that the works of 'One Dimension' or whatever they're called won't last 400 weeks...ouch
In Europe, same era- Monteverdi, Victoria, Lully, Rameau, Dufay, Couperin, Vivaldi, Gesualdo, Josquin des Pres, Palestrina...All mostly before JS Bach, who is the pinnacle for me. Except, perhaps...the string quartets from Haydn and Mozart- leading to the extraordinary Beethoven series, op18, op54, and then the 'late quartets' up to op 135.
Then so much Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Bartok... Too much to listen to, but they're worth it.
Hello Fred. Thanks for your most interesting post. I'd welcome hearing some early music. It often brings in polyphony. That links in with European folk music which I like. But I don't know much more than the names. Think Josquin might have been the father of them all? Then isn't there a Gibbons and an early Taverner plus Telemann? The Howard Goodall programmes helped me a little. I don't know if you saw them? They even featured people like Cat Stevens. And because of those programmes, I understand a tiny bit more too about what Bach was doing - all that precision - and then Haydn and Mozart but I do still find them rather dry.
As for later periods, I don't like Beethoven. I find it bombastic but I do like the great romantics so Debussy and Ravel are both good. That's my favourite area. I dabble only occasionally and again with very little knowledge. Knowing I'm never going to get a grip on the main names, I like exploring the lesser known Brits, Scandinavians, Spaniards and the South Americans. That means I can also add something once in a while.
Frederic Mompou - El Pont
Hi Horseradish! Thanks for reading- I did go on a bit...
I was quite lucky at school, in that a bunch of us, alongside rock music, had a couple of good classical music students, especially violin- so I got to hear a lot of good music early on. I was a student myself when I had a long discussion with another student who preferred Tchaikovsky over Beethoven for the former's emotion. I can't recall who won- but I know we were both too young to have a real clue.
Nowadays I would easily cite Beethoven's 6th Pastoral Symphony as one of the most melodic and accessible in all (proper) music. Plus, there are certain movements in the late string quartets that are devastating (Molto Adagio of Op. 132; the opening of Op. 131 in C# minor, probably the first that 'blew me away'...)
And there are so many more early composers, as you mention- Telemann certainly, incredibly prolific, Orlando Gibbons, the first John Taverner you mention; Gabrieli, Machaut, Corelli, Scarlatti...
Radio Three is very good for broadcasts, ie 1pm Sat and Sun, plus podcasts.
Quote: Fred C Dobbs @ September 6 2013, 11:26 PM BSTHi Horseradish! Thanks for reading- I did go on a bit...
I was quite lucky at school, in that a bunch of us, alongside rock music, had a couple of good classical music students, especially violin- so I got to hear a lot of good music early on. I was a student myself when I had a long discussion with another student who preferred Tchaikovsky over Beethoven for the former's emotion. I can't recall who won- but I know we were both too young to have a real clue.
Nowadays I would easily cite Beethoven's 6th Pastoral Symphony as one of the most melodic and accessible in all (proper) music. Plus, there are certain movements in the late string quartets that are devastating (Molto Adagio of Op. 132; the opening of Op. 131 in C# minor, probably the first that 'blew me away'...)And there are so many more early composers, as you mention- Telemann certainly, incredibly prolific, Orlando Gibbons, the first John Taverner you mention; Gabrieli, Machaut, Corelli, Scarlatti...
Radio Three is very good for broadcasts, ie 1pm Sat and Sun, plus podcasts.
Thank you Fred. Following your comments, I won't rule out Beethoven completely - some of the sonatas etc - and while I do like Tchaikovsky it is a little sugary at times so my taste is between those two points. Among the mainstream composers I like are RVW, Copland, Delius, Debussy, Satie, Rodrigo, Holst, Grieg, Rachmaninov, Coleridge-Taylor and Puccini. But again I emphasise that I have only dipped into their work.
Granville Bantock - Hebridean Symphony, 1st Movement
