Do you like classical music?

[Profpointy]

I like all sorts on music, maybe only exception is Jazz. Classical I mostly like baroque harpsichord music (Rameau, etc.),

Nice to see another Rameau fan. First came across him when I heard this on the radio one morning and thought "WTF is this?" and bought the record the same day. We had it played at our wedding when we led everyone out.


View: https://youtu.be/jy9S4HIaIq8?feature=shared


Later came across a singing version, also with Mark Minkowski and his band. the sheer joy on soprano Magali Leger's face is really lovely


View: https://youtu.be/RKvd4tMkFHc?feature=shared

 

[Conrad_K]

I used to work with a chap who said he was "tone deaf". Nothing wrong with his hearing, but he said all music sounded the same to him. I often wonder how life would be without the capacity to enjoy music. There is music in everything. Would birdsong just be a noise? The wind in the trees? The sound of waves on a beach? Even the sound of machinery can be musical.

I'm tone-deaf. There has to be quite a spread between notes on a violin or piano before I can hear any difference, and then it's just "higher pitch" and "lower pitch." Most woodwind is just noise, and all stringed instruments sound basically the same. So mostly I get music as rhythm and beat, with supplementary sound that sometimes overlaps into a waterfall of noise.

Apparently I was born that way; it first became a problem when I was seven or eight years old, when someone at the school board had the bright idea that second-graders should be taught to play musical instruments. They chose the flute and the harmonica. I don't remember any teachers committing suicide over it, but I wouldn't be surprised. 45 to 50 children in a classroom, armed with weapons of musical destruction...

The Miami Herald used to have a columnist named Dave Barry, whose experience as a musician was similar:

I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a result of controlled substances being in widespread use. Back then, there were no restrictions, in terms of talent, on who could make an album, so we made one, and it sounds like a group of people who have been given powerful but unfamiliar instruments as a therapy for a degenerative nerve disease.