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If you were genuine in your love for music.. why would you listen to new music? The majority of it is trash that will be forgotten in 100 years. It hasn't had enough time to benefit from years of scholarship and study. Only the fashionable stuff reaches your ears through RYM, P4k, Discogs, etc.
Don't you love music enough to save your listening time only for the very best?
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>>38649050
Serious music is the most nuanced, eclectic, perfect music. All the """advancements""" you see in your popular muzak? yes, done to death with much more finesse and depth in the serious music sphere decades or centuries ago. It just can't compete. The display of knowledge is astoundingly bigger in serious music than in another other music. It's music for the patrician, for the cultured mind. The fact that some plebeians try to "appreciate" it on a gut level is why they are plebeians. They are missing the true beauty and subtlety. Like reading a perfect theorem. The inner workings that make their music so much more advanced and worth of respect than anything penned by a popular musikian.
Patrician music is music of considerable intellectual finesse and technical considerations. The fact that intellectuals gravitate towards it is explained because it's more intellectually stimulating, more patrician. it's not a coincidence AT ALL.
It's music that only the utterly select intelligentsia fully comprehends and appreciates. It's like high philosophy or high mathematics. There is pedestrian mathematics (the mathematics that engineers use) and there is pedestrian philosophy (the philosphy plebeians like english majors know). A pure mathematician, obviously a patrician, gravitates towards highly stimulating, advanced and abstract mathematics.
Classical music is so evidently superior to all other kinds of music, yet we keep lowering the standards when we talk about other types of music, to avoid the uncomfortable situation where the butt rock dude or the druggy EDM boy gets anal pained when they are told the great masters are better than their shitty hedonistic hero.
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>>38649079
>>38649050
Instead of white guilt, in the music world there is "classical" guilt. We keep lowering the standards for other kinds of music to compensate and preserve our dream of marxist culturalism. Of perfect musical relativism. Guess what? It isn't true and the compositional talent and imagination displayed, which is all that counts in the end when we have to say what is worth being saved and what not, is infinitely superior in classical music than in any other form of music.
If your shitty pop muzak is an 8 what the fuck are Beethoven's late string quartets? a 400? most music is barely a 1 to 3, the Beatles fall in here and so do most other popular music with very few exceptions that reach a 4, even a 5. Bartok string quartets would be a 6, 2 degrees of magnitude higher you have works by Brahms and other great masters. Then 9 and 10 are reserved for the highest achievements of human race like Beethoven's late string quartets or his Missa Solemnis or Mass in B minor by Bach or his Brandenburg Concertos.
Patrician music: Serious music. Intended to be listened to carefully, thoroughly dissected, must be absorbed with all of one's intelligence and knowledge, incredibly technical and nuanced implications at play.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_music
Plebeian music: Popular music. Low-brow, vulgar, unrefined, escapist, meant to be interpreted and read with the body and not with the mind, as intellectual as a pulp magazine, effectively ambient music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_music
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>>38649056
Just read up on theory (I'm sure someone who knows more than me can rec you a good book) then start with simple compositions like Mozart's string quartets or w/e
don't start with mid-to-late 20th century stuff bcoz you'll just get a headache and be put off. Even without any knowledge of theory, pieces like Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite, Mozart's The Magic Flute, and Bach's Brandenburg concertos are very accessible and pleasing to the ear. Once you know what you like, find more in that style - if you like Mozart, say, try some Haydn, or if you like some Tallis, try some Palestrina. Just look through a list of popular composers from before 1900, pick out some familiar names, and look at their smaller-scale works.
If you find it hard paying attention to long instrumental pieces, try Lieder by someone like Schubert or Schumann.
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