![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Give me your recs!
I love classical/instrumental/opera/choir music (well mostly baroque, but that's only if we're getting into specifics) and I listen to it a fair amount. Ironically, I'm not one who memorizes everything written by a composer. Heck, sometimes I'll listen to a piece more than once and not even know the composer or even the song title.
Anywoo, I'm sure I'm not alone. If you're up for it, please link me some of your favorite pieces (any era/genre ... medieval, renaissance, baroque, opera, classical, romantic, 20th century, contemporary, movie scores, etc.)
I actually first heard this melody in a 1960s cover of Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, and I loved the melody so I did a search and found the source.
Love music composed for castrati. It's one of my weird quirks.
Rameau is the shit. He's like the best example of overly embellished baroque music. While I do enjoy a lot of his ballet-operas, I picked this piece because I love the demonstration of baroque ballet.
This is just awesome, the haunting echo in the caves is insane.
Another melody I first heard in a pop song, well a Japanese pop song by my favorite voice actress. The night I heard the song played on the classical radio station I freaked out in excitement, but never got the title. Then when I was a freshman in college I took a music appreciation course and I finally got the title to my mystery song!
Anywoo, I'm sure I'm not alone. If you're up for it, please link me some of your favorite pieces (any era/genre ... medieval, renaissance, baroque, opera, classical, romantic, 20th century, contemporary, movie scores, etc.)
I actually first heard this melody in a 1960s cover of Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, and I loved the melody so I did a search and found the source.
Love music composed for castrati. It's one of my weird quirks.
Rameau is the shit. He's like the best example of overly embellished baroque music. While I do enjoy a lot of his ballet-operas, I picked this piece because I love the demonstration of baroque ballet.
This is just awesome, the haunting echo in the caves is insane.
Another melody I first heard in a pop song, well a Japanese pop song by my favorite voice actress. The night I heard the song played on the classical radio station I freaked out in excitement, but never got the title. Then when I was a freshman in college I took a music appreciation course and I finally got the title to my mystery song!
no subject
Turn up your volume and put on your seatbelt for this. It's a snippet from the choral reckoning where the town calls for the title character's blood in the opera Peter Grimes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grimes). I had the unbelievable fortune of seeing the LA opera do this when I was in undergrad, and it was literally life-changing for me. Its genius can be found even in just this little snippet-- the plaintive fog horn underlaid at the end. Ung.
I could show you a dozen Britten videos, but this is the one that came to mind first.
no subject
no subject
...dunno if it makes the best background music, though! lol. Well, some of it does for sure, like Anonymous 4 or the Sixteen (depending on what the pieces are, of course). I ALWAYS listen to Anonymous 4 when I'm writing canon Merlin.
/excessive sharing
no subject
Ahaha, yeah. If I ever get my ass back to drawing, I could listen to a choral rec playlist while working on art. Since if I used it for BG reading music I would probably get distracted by ~words~.
Yeah, send me those links!
(If you could put them in as links instead of embeds, my computer would thank you forever. Ahaha, next time I do this I should put that in as a disclaimer. I had no idea the adobe plugin would slow down the old girl so much. XD Live and learn!)
no subject
http://www.triomediaeval.no/
http://www.thesixteen.com/
:D
I'm sure there are playlists on youtube, i just... have really insanely bad google-fu. ^^