Amusing. I was an honors music student at a major university with
composition as my strength. What was interesting was learning how these
guys actually came up with their music. There even are some pieces that
are adaptations of bar songs of the composer's day.
There really is no venue for serious composers in this age but writing
movie scores and for TV is one for them. Even some of my composition
professors at the university wrote for film. Murphy's "Adagio in D
minor" is a simple and beautiful piece which functions as mood
generating background for the film. Hans Zimmer also wrote a simple
piece for the film "Inception" called "Time" which is also very popular
and spiritual. Funny thing is I noticed it was "Blue Moon" chords
played backward. :-D
The public isn't of course aware (unless they took some good music
appreciation classes) of the background of a lot the "serious" composers
of the past. I always thought that "Amadeus" told the story well that
they had to cater to the aristocrats of the day who might accuse them of
writing "too many notes." Some of these people lived short lives and
some were drunkards. Shubert died at an early age of syphilis.
The pubic is told to hold them in high esteem not that they recognize
why. I was always amused at how symphonies needed to put on their
"classical top 40" concerts rather than present new music or obscure pieces.
Randy Newman wrote the music for the film "Pleasantville" and the DVD
contains a wonderful commentary by him. Of course he grew up hanging
out with his uncles who wrote for Hollywood film and talks about how
Jerry Goldsmith would rip apart many of Beethoven's works in
discussion. Such discussions were also not unusual when having coffee
with some of my music school professors.
On 12/12/2013 12:56 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
*I know it when I hear it. Murphy's Adagio ain't, IMHO. Listen to the
videos I posted, see if you hear a difference. Has to be interesting
and challenging.*
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Bhairitu asked:
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How do you define "real music"?
On 12/11/2013 02:33 PM, authfriend@... <mailto:authfriend@...> wrote:
Here, listen to some real music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKcL6BZXcV4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELEq1MA8m8Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IUM-ropDro
And the "2001 music":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szdziw4tI9o
Share wrote:
> > hey noozguru, I listened to the Sunshine adagio again. My music
education is very limited but I think I caught the piano at 2:02.
Yes, it's beautiful. > >
