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All of us are here for one reason, I hope: we love language. And we have touched on music many times, in many different threads. What I'd like to know is what kind of music do y'all love? I'll start: -Medieval, both secular (hi Faldage) and sacred -Renaissance, tra-la-la -Bach and the other (especially early) Baroque guys (if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it)  -Mozart and his henchmen -Beethoven and some o' them - Mahler, Brahms, y'all know -some o' the Russians -30s-40s standards -60s oldies, blues & Motown -Brazilian (samba, bossa nova) -Folk music (Celtic, Sfardic, bluegrass)
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everything except opera and grand ole opry (and most broadway musicals) [and rap isn't music]
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My tastes start a little later than yours, =of mediæval music that I have heard, I like neither secular nor sacred, ditto Renaissance. As for the rest
Bach and the other (especially early) Baroque guys (if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it)
-Mozart and his henchmen
-Beethoven and some o' them (LvB's 9th half a dozen times a day, if I had the time)
- Mahler, Brahms, only if I'm in the mood, which is very seldom
-some o' the Russians
-30s-40s standards
-60s oldies, blues & Motown
-Brazilian (samba, bossa nova)
-Folk music (Celtic, and African, both in small doses)
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The father of my son forced me for years to listen music, high volume, even during lunches and dinners... and this was making the life so difficult - even "please the salt" had to be cried.
So in some sense I hate music - and just now after 8 years I start again to enjoy some simple song... But usually I prefere "the sound of silence", or just the birds singing...
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an attempt to name the specific composers
Mozart
Beethoven
Wagner
Rossini
Tchaikovsky
Gershwin
(Scott) Joplin
Beatles
There are more but this would be a pretty long list before I'd be done.
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Well, I of course have to do my part in paying homage to modern Classical music: Jazz.
Let's see, there's Ragtime, Dixieland, Blues, Swing/Big Band, Bebop, Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz, Free Jazz, Fusion, Soul, Hip Hop, Smooth/Contemporary Jazz.
My favorite artists/composers are Louis Armstrong (without whom the subsequent music generations probably wouldn't have existed), Duke Ellington (obviously the greatest American composer), Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck/Paul Desmond, Thelonious Monk, Tower of Power (soul/hip hop group), Herbie Hancock, SpyroGyra (contemporary/fusion group).
I can really listen to any kind of music depending on my mood. My least favorites though are Country, Rap, Heavy Metal and Hard Rock (Metallica). I think saying any form is not music is fallacious because music is the way in which we convey our thoughts and emotions. Mozart and Eminem are both musicians in the same way that Chaucer and e.e. cummings are both poets. I tend to consider wordless music superior because you actually have to listen to the music to find the message. And we've discussed before that language is limited in portraying a thought (especially across many languages) but pure music can sometimes fill in those gaps in language to adequately get the message across.
I have many more thoughts on this subject, but I'm not finding the words to say them, so I'll just hum them to myself.
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I can really listen to any kind of music depending on my mood. My least favorites though are Country, Rap, Heavy Metal and Hard Rock.
I think you read my mind, JazzO! I completely concur.
Some of my favorite composers/singers/music groups are:
J. S. Bach
Carl Orff (his Carmina Burana)
Handel
U2
REM
The Mamas and the Papas
Simon and Garfunkel
Duran Duran
Depeche Mode
Deep Forest (world beat)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Enya
Andrea Bocelli
The Crystal Method
etc. and so on
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Most everything, except impossibly loud rock, including opera
esp. Mozart, and of his, especially Don Giovanni, as well as parts of Il Trovatore, and Don Carlo the first and second act choruses, and the first act trio of Fidelio, for shear bombast, In Questa Regia and for some bel canto lines, Bellini. The arias of Handel's Julius Caesar are also magnificent.
Then there are the Bach Cantatas, especially, "Weinen Traenen ____ Sorgen," and "Jesu der du Meine Seele," The B minor mass, Oh all sorts of other Bach.
I love the Schubert song cycles. Schumann's Dichterliebe is ethereal, surprisingly, it is the piano "accompaniment" that sometimes is most beautiful. When singing, I have sometimes had to stop for crying at something that's happened in the piano.
Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, many of the unknowns on the Lomax recordings.
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The father of my son forced me for years to listen music, high volume, even during lunches and dinners... and this was
making the life so difficult - even "please the salt" had to be cried.
So in some sense I hate musicAlthough I have never had anyone father a child with me (my plumbing's not set up that way,)  I can sympathize with you, Emmanuella. The people at work insist on playing screaming teen-ager type rock (compressed dirt), thereby metamorphically transforming my normally sedimentary self into an igneous raving maniac! However, that has not reduced my delight in Baroque and Russian Romantic music, which are my favorites. We here in Portland, Oregon, are furtunate to have an excellent Baroque period orchestra, so my thirst for such music can be easily slaked. As for the rest, well, AnnaStrophic, I think you've got a pretty good list, Mahler excepted!
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) [and rap isn't music]
Based on the lyrics, I think they left out an "e" at the end or rap, or left out a "c" at the beginning.
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