noodles wrote:
Define Infinity wrote:
How is Beethoven cute? That's one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard.
I think because his music (and it's general style) has been used so often in our culture that it's become extremely familiar, inoffensive and predictable. But at the same time it's very very dramatic. It reminds me of watching really great kids movies like The Lion King or Wall-E. I can tell they're well done but there's clear boundaries that they're working inside, so you can see what's coming next before it happens. Therefore cute. I hear Ode to Joy and I imagine myself bellowing it at the top of my lungs as an 8 year old.
tl;dr the scores to kid's cartoons sound like Beethoven. eg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoWQ1wgD-MkToday I've been avoiding electric instruments, so:
Cab Calloway - Vol 1: the early years
Beirut - The Rip Tide, still annoyed it's not as good as the last two.
Koop - Koop Islands, Ane Brun should sing every song.
Rachael Yamagata - Elephants
I agree. Beethoven is probably the most influential of all Classical composers. The passion and desire in his music is unparalleled. Beethoven wrote some very simplistic music and also wrote some of the most extraordinary music over produced by a composer. He is the one that bridged the Classical-era to the Romantic-era which is highly critical and revolutionary for a person to achieve. Many composers have tried to reach Beethoven in terms of passion and energy, but sometimes have failed to do so, and other times have had a hard time reaching that point. An example is Tchaikovsky; he has tried to reach Beethoven's passion and, personally, I do not find his music to be interesting in the basic sense. There is a difference between a composer's music becoming popular, and the majority of the people only knowing a few notes of that particular composer's music, and a person fully dedicating themselves into trying to understand a composers lifetime of work, say, Beethoven's--because of its magnificent influence and the revolutionary aspect of it, not so much because it is popular!-- Beethoven might have not wrote the most technical of compositions, but he did not intend to do so, anyhow. The Romantic period as he created it without him knowing, was about feeling and the expression of a narrative account of a musical piece. I also think the word "cute" would be a very poor choice of word, especially coming from a student of Philosophy!
at above conversation.
Cheers, man.
