Disliking Bach is a sign of low musical intelligence.
There's a reason why every major composer for the past few hundreds years has absolutely adored Bach and been deeply inspired by his work. And that reason is because the music that Bach created was simply brilliant.
If you don't love the baroque style compared to later styles thats one thing. But you have to respect the ingenious of Bach's work.
Disliking Bach is like disliking Shakespeare or Isaac Newton. It comes off as ignorant.
What I admire of all these edgy contrarians shitting on the greatest names of academic music is the fact that they look at centuries of history, composers, influences, schools, critics, even public appreciation right in the face -centuries of it!- and say: "No. It is you who are wrong. I have found a hidden truth invisible to two, three, five hundred years of fanatical scrutiny; I alone have found this flaw: Your admired and revered and established composers are a fraud and my own personal taste or distaste is what objectively dictates and steers reality itself." Of course, when they are faced with this reality, their addled brains immediately turn this logical fallacy of theirs into an argumentative fault on the other: "you're just appealing to authority/antiquity/popularity". There, the logical vacuum has been filled with something, anything, and the panic of facing reality has been once again avoided.
It takes an absolutely enormous ego, an impossibly blind critical eye and an unsalvageable ear, but overall it takes the obstinate monothematic wall-banging of a literal schizophrenic to think that way, and I think that's one of may forms, or deformities as it were, that courage can take. Just for that, I salute you.
Gabriel Thompson
anyone else find immensely kino that string section strings (bar the derpy double bass) are tuned in fifths? its like they all are drop something, you can double stops with one finger, you can reach very high notes very quickly in a short run, also every open string sound AMAZING.
well i was talking about the cello anyways which is ADGC, violin has dumb tuning.
Gavin Davis
my prediction is that in a few years new threads will very quickly fill up with accumulated copypastas, and then once the thread has been filled with the same content in a new random order the next thread will be created only for the next thing to happen, and so on.
Bros, Renaissance, Ars Nova and Ars Antiqua need more love.
Des Prez, Perotin, Victoria, Machaut, Palestrina, Tallis, Ockeghem, Hildegard von Bingen (I know it's gregorian chant, but she's wonderful), Dowland, Allegri...
There a number of masses that haven't been put in record, but are simply amazing, like Inclina Cor Meum, by Phillipe de Monte.
A Sei Voci. The Hilliard Ensemble and Gothic Voices are definitely my favorite performers. Can someone recommend me more? And share love for this shit
Wyatt Allen
>Renaissance, Ars Nova and Ars Antiqua I'll get to that, eventually, and then I promise I won't shut up about it.
Gabriel Ross
Schnittke, Ferneyhough, and to a lesser but still real extent Ives are fucking hacks.
Kayden Carter
I just made a video for the Haydn mechanical clock meme piece that's been posted a few times here.
hope you all like it. it would mean a lot if just a few of you got a kick out of it.
Jack Wilson
Ives should be replaced by Roslavets, Sorabji by Feinberg and Ferneyhough by Grisey. I don't know who Schnittke should be replaced by because the only similar option is Pärt and he's a fucking meme.
