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Don Basilio
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« Reply #15 on: 15:12:29, 30-06-2008 »
Quote from: Philidor on 15:10:53, 30-06-2008
Precious little romance in the Luftwaffe bombing your smalls to a Handel accompaniment.

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« Reply #16 on: 15:36:00, 30-06-2008 »
Ive always been told I am 'The Last Romantic', o well. Or I could be a sentmentalist. Hmmm.....
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« Reply #17 on: 00:58:38, 01-07-2008 »
Insofar as such terms are anything but ridiculous, I'd say I'm a Classicist. But I experimented a bit with Romanticism when I was younger, so perhaps you could say I was Ro-curious?
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« Reply #18 on: 15:33:14, 01-07-2008 »
Hmm, convoluted and intricate, wishing to combine intense feeling with intense thought, structure with improvisation...

I think I'm neither classical nor romantic but baroque.

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« Reply #19 on: 21:59:18, 01-07-2008 »
Having been force-fed the stodgy end of the romantic repertoire at school,  I grew up hating it.  I've since managed to find my own way into much of it,  but there are other areas that are not only impenetrable binge-eating disorder zones (Elgar), but thankfully it's quite fashionable not to like them so I don't have to bother trying Wink

I'm in rehab on Wagner - I seem to remember that in 1991 I didn't listen to anything except Wagner (except, perhaps, Pfitzner), but these days I can get through entire years without listening to a note of it.  But I could so easily be dragged back in again Smiley  (Continued post-WW2 wariness of his music in Russia makes a very convenient form of Albericholics Anonymous).  I come and go with Puccini,  but I think that's mainly due to over-familiarity with his output (some of it work-related).  I wouldn't cross the street for another LA BOHEME, I'm afraid, but I would jump on a plane to hear FANCIULLA DEL WEST.

I tend to listen to whatever I'm working on, and whatever adds the background context to it.  I've spent the last 3-4 months listening almost entirely to Handel, leavening that with a bit of Porpora, Hasse, Vivaldi etc.  Then I have to do the same with Purcell (both anniversaries next year).  I think I'll be taking Boulez, Nono, and Birtwistle to listen to on the beach next year,  I'll be deeply into da-capo overload by then Wink

Somehow I can always find space to listen to the Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior composers, and Ockeghem & Dufay.  It's like having a musical steam-bath that deep-cleans the accumulated goo out of your system Smiley
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« Reply #20 on: 22:25:40, 01-07-2008 »
I can't answer this question, because I don't know in which category one locates Chopin, Brahms, Verdi or Ravel.
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« Reply #21 on: 23:16:48, 01-07-2008 »
Quote from: Turfan Fragment on 14:10:12, 30-06-2008
This is the place for some self-test questionnaire with at least 10 questions and a rating system at the end of it. Let me know when you're done compiling same.

Rate the follwing composers in order of ability


Bach
Beethoven
Ravel
Debussy
Chopin
Mozart
Handel
Vivaldi
Stravinsky
Berg

If bach is number one and mozart ten you are mumblesford
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« Reply #22 on: 23:22:45, 01-07-2008 »
Hmm, which particular ability did you have in mind? I think Mozart was probably the most able billiards player of that lot, and Stravinsky the best poker player ...
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« Reply #23 on: 23:27:51, 01-07-2008 »
Quote from: Bryn on 23:22:45, 01-07-2008
Hmm, which particular ability did you have in mind? I think Mozart was probably the most able billiards player of that lot, and Stravinsky the best poker player ...

 I bet JSB would have been the best at those if he put his mind to it.
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« Reply #24 on: 08:47:44, 03-07-2008 »
Quote from: Bryn on 23:22:45, 01-07-2008
Hmm, which particular ability did you have in mind? I think Mozart was probably the most able billiards player of that lot, and Stravinsky the best poker player ...

It is a well-known fact that the science of correct billiards playing was lost in 1908 and that poker, being an American sport, is not worthy of consideration.

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