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Pablito
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Hello,
I am classical music fan. Both listener and performer. I play piano and classical guitar. Probably with piano a bit more advanced.
Want to talk? Want to play? Want to listen? Want to attend concerts?
Contact me: paul.slobod#gmail
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:37 am Post subject: Re: Any classical music fans here? |
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| Pablito wrote: | Hello,
I am classical music fan. Both listener and performer. I play piano and classical guitar. Probably with piano a bit more advanced.
Want to talk? Want to play? Want to listen? Want to attend concerts?
Contact me: paul.slobod#gmail |
Classical as in ? Eastern or Western? if eastern i.e. Indian/Pakistani then a BIG YES
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Well, classical music - is something related to classical instruments with 12 tone tempered scale.
Oriental music I would call folk music.
I suppose in India and Pakistan in music schools students mostly study piano, violin, with Mozart, Beethoven & co.
Of course, classical and folk music overlaps and have big common areas.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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Oh,
had a tough week.
Two violin students took their exams, and I accompanied them on piano.
Under burden of responsibility it is much more difficult to play.
But luckily I had two good students, so there wasn't faults from their performances.
Now I'll play for myself. Much more relaxing.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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I love classical music !!!
nice to hear u know to play both of piano and guitar  |
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Pablito
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you.
I am not alone here.
You like to hear classical music, or you can perform as well?
What kind of music do you like: instruments, composers, epochs?
Yesterday was a party at my friends, where I took part in a small concert. I played some piano-violins and guitar-violin duets.
Well, I don't play violin
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| Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject: hey |
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| well i used to play violin till sec. still have my darling violin with me in sg which reminds me the beautiful tunes from time to time...i wished to play piano when i was a kid but dad wanted me to fulfill his violinist dream which i have no chance to realize anymore=p BUT heart still beats so passionately when i listen to classic pieces... |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| i dont play but i do love concerts...cheers |
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Pablito
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Last days I play a lot of Astor Piazzolla's music. Fantastic tangos. maybe I'll play some on the concert I'm going to take part in a couple of months.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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hey ya,
i am interested to go... but cant pm yet...
Let me know...
my email is charlene2910@yahoo.com
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Oh! just found this post. Should be nice concert. I'll come today (Saturday).
Now I am in period of severe guitar playing. Prepare some pieces to support group of violinists. So nervous. I like to play without extra burden of responsibility. But nervousness is almost inevitable for any music performance. We need to control it.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Pablito wrote: | Well, classical music - is something related to classical instruments with 12 tone tempered scale.
Oriental music I would call folk music.
I suppose in India and Pakistan in music schools students mostly study piano, violin, with Mozart, Beethoven & co.
Of course, classical and folk music overlaps and have big common areas. |
Granted common usage of the word "classical music" usually refers to Western Classical. However to be accurate classical music doesn't only refer to Mozart and Beethoven, or instruments with a equal tempered 12 tone scale - thats only as far as European classical music is concerned. In Asia there are also indigenous classical music traditions, such as Hindustani classical, Carnatic Classical, Thai Classical music as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_classical_music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Thailand#Classical_music
These are different from folk music traditions in Asia, just as much as Romanian gypsy traditional music isn't thought of as being western classical music. |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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I like music in a big variety of styles, but mostly related to classical Western, if you like tradition. Music that is mostly taught in music schools in Europe, Japan, Singapore, India etc.
Should we raise this thread to high-brow discussion of definitions?
Classical music in common sense.
Although there is an article in Wikipedia about Indian Classical music, I doubt I can find anyone whom I can talk about it. Or maybe you are specialist in it?
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| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Pablito wrote: |
Oriental music I would call folk music.
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ha! interesting how i see it the other way around, considering that asians (orientals) have being properly perfecting the art of musikal composition and instruments construction thousand of years before the euro "classical" period...
shepards musik using eastern mathematics to create harmony... very folky...
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| Pablito wrote: |
Although there is an article in Wikipedia about Indian Classical music, I doubt I can find anyone whom I can talk about it. Or maybe you are specialist in it? |
If you're interested in looking for someone to talk to about Indian Classical music you can approach the guys at:
http://www.sifas.org/
http://www.templeoffinearts.org/sg/
They're both based in Singapore and I'm sure they would be more than happy to chat with you if you wish to know more about the classical music of India. |
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So, tangos in Fritz Quartet performance was very good. I liked they did small info note before each piece.
I've made acquaintance with "Poetry In Motion".
It's great how four music amateurs built such a nice quartet.
I need to study more tangos too.
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Some facts about Bach.
Surname of the great composer Bach, has four letter that can be played B-A-C-H. You may ask what H means? Now it is rarely used, but earlier B denoted contemporary B-flat, and H was B-natural. So these pitches give us simple tune. Bach himself wrote several compositions on theme B-A-C-H. Some composers after him used it too.
The word "bach" in German means "brook", that is also can be "singing".
Two famous composer were born the same year with Bach: George Frideric Handel and Domenico Scarlatti. (Though it is Alessandro Scarlatti is more famous then Domenico)
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Hello - I, too, play the piano and oft times been thinking of organising a group of players to perform. Are you into the same idea - we could even have ensembles - I like composing though the melodies are all in my head as yet. I had watched a casual public performance that wnet on all day at Rffles City Centre - just mainly kids going on stage to play - such talent (and nasty ambitions too ) I'm in the UK at present but will be going to Singapore next September onwards - we can practise for the performance then. |
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It's unthinkable to degrade Oriental music as 'folk music' - how can any musician be so ignorant? Where did you study your music?
Well, in London, Beijing, Delhi and Java, we consider the Zheng, pipa ETC, the gamelan, Sitar, tablas etc as complex classical music. Ever heard og polyphony? Ragas - The Silk Route/ Butterfly Lovers etc?
Likewise, some non-musicians blissfully think that anyone can play jazz - tell that to musicians - high low, high low... it's on new grounds we go... |
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Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich also used musical signature, as an answer to BACH theme.
He took his initials (in Cyrillic Д.Ш.) in German way: D.SCH.
There are no such note as S, he put E-flat or in other notation "Es".
So DSCH = D - E-flat - C - B. This fragment, or signature we can find in his different pieces - quartet, symphony, sonata and concerto. This tune sounds unresolved and tense.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject: classical music and tension |
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Hi Pablito
I was thinking... the term'classical' really only refers to the music of the 17-early 18 th centuries - from Haydn and others to some of Beethoven's. Mozart, of course, is the muse of classical compositions. I like Debussy for his unique and unadulterated 'impressionistic' works which are especially so suited to the piano. I cannot relate to tension being resolved by composer's signatures... Bach's pieces is always so complex to me - lots of resolutions in his contrapunctuals...the letterings and musical notations I find very cryptic and to be honest, I've never heard of them recounted in this way...but it's interesting. I relate the Eflat to blues and am tempted to play the sequence in D. Shostakovitch's signature on the piano. I'm not a professional musician and I do not read a lot about musicians but I love playing the piano , and grade 4/5 vioilin. My favourite pop bands are The Beatles and The Incredible String Bnd. |
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La Patria
by NUS Symphony Orchestra
12 Sep 2009 (Sat), 6.30pm
The Plaza, National Library Building
Free admission
From lively folk dances to an ominous legend surrounding a bare mountain, composers’ native tales and traditions are the subject matter and their beloved homelands the emotional core of the evening's repertoire.
Slavonic Dances brings out the folk music rhythms of Dvorak’s native Czechoslovakia. Traditional folk tales of the land are also given voice in the lovely Polovisian Dances, from the Russian opera Prince Igor. In counterpoint to the vivacious dances, Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain promises storytelling of a darker kind.
Come experience these great composers’ pride in their nation, their traditions, their patria.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121360741431
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you Poetry,
I want to say about the composer of Polovisian Dances you've mentioned.
It is Russian composer Borodin. Besides composing he was a prominent chemist. Here what I took from Wikipedia:
"He also spent time in Pisa, working on organic halogens. One experiment published in 1862 described the first nucleophilic displacement of chlorine by fluorine in benzoyl chloride"
Still his music is more famous than his work in chemistry.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:02 am Post subject: Who's Poetry? Read on |
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Are you callin ME poetry? Thanks for all these otherwise obsure knowledge - were they really taken from Wikipedia? I've heard of Mussorky, Borodin - such gloomy names, but if I remember, Mussorky's eccentric. Dvorak - I visited Karlovyvari where he lived. Russian music I like - its sweeping lines, wistfulness and feelings - Rachmaniof's concerto no 2 and I also like the communist song - shame I can;t sing it in Russian - Russ y a nis nayo. Zai jian. Selamat tinngal. Speciba. |
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| anneteoh wrote: | Pablito
Are you callin ME poetry? |
I believe that would be me . . . ? ? ? !
| Pablito wrote: | Thank you Poetry,
I want to say about the composer of Polovisian Dances you've mentioned.
It is Russian composer Borodin. Besides composing he was a prominent chemist. Here what I took from Wikipedia:
"He also spent time in Pisa, working on organic halogens. One experiment published in 1862 described the first nucleophilic displacement of chlorine by fluorine in benzoyl chloride"
Still his music is more famous than his work in chemistry. |
Wow! Wouldn't have guessed it . . . perhaps if he had made a bomb instead . . . others may have taken more notice of his prowess in chemistry ! ! !
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:20 pm Post subject: to moderators - society's messy enough |
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| Now I FIND THE CULPRITS THAT'S DOING SO MUCH HARM - turning this forum into just a scandalous joke. You can surely draw a parrallel example with the state this kind of journalism has put Britain into today. So back off! Stop making me the butt of your jokes - you're a chauvistic, and probably racist bunch of no-do-gooders and your evil image of me is harmful to the extent of something requiring legal interference. Yeah, typical of those egos who joke at others' expense. Now stop editing people's writing to suit your nasty butts. Shame on you. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| i like classical music alot too... maybe we all can meet up one day hehe |
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Pablito
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| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:55 am Post subject: |
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Hello, Yamaki (may I call you this way)
Why not, we can meet some day, drink teh-c and talk a bit about music.
Do you play some instrument?
I told you about composer and chemist Borodin.
Today I want to say about remarkable example from other side.
One of the founders of Quantum Mechanics, Nobel laureate in physics, Max Planck was a prominent musician, brilliant pianist and even composer. His friend Einstein played violin, everybody knows that, but he was merely an amateur.
Wiki says about him: "Planck was gifted when it came to music. He took singing lessons and played piano, organ and cello, and composed songs and operas."
Astonishing, isn't it?
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