The Plasticity of Music
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I'm sitting here charting a Phish tune for a band I'm in, and taking a break because I literally just wrote [Outro: Jam on I, 128 bars]...
there are so many more modalities just in how I feel about writing something that dumb onto a piece of paper, much less the technological circumstances that surround that (both in terms of how the music comes to me and what I must do with that artifact to turn it into a performance) that the piece seems like trying to figure out what to make of the ocean from what I've got in my pail at the beach.
I could 100% live without a streaming service, but it's kind of like bitching about the weather. It'll rain even if I don't care for being wet.
For me, I want to get into classical music. Despite having amassed a collection of it, I can never get into it, and would rather listen to orchestral soundtracks instead.
Music of the classical period is basically from ~1750 - 1820 but when people say "classical music" they're potentially referring to a period of nearly 600 years, where there have been a huge variety of different styles.
I like some "proper" classical period music but also quite like some music of the baroque period right before. But mostly find myself listening to later stuff into the 19th century and early 20th
I like romantic period stuff the most and into french impressionism and minimalism.
I've spoken with a number of people who "can't get into classical music" who, turns out, had only listened to music of a certain era and weren't familiar enough with the material to know they might enjoy music of other eras.
A few big ones for me:
-Shostakovich's 10th Symphony
-Daphnis and Chloe by Ravel
-The Planets by Holst
-The Desert Music by Steve Reich
Start there and you might find something you like.