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Points: 283 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2009 at 10:10
A real masterpiece has to stirr anyone, and it really doesn't matter who, emotionally, thus eventually every single album/song can be a masterpiece (there are so many people on this earth, you knowWink)...
For me personally quite a lot of albums have this aspect, for example: Brave, Somewhere Else, Misplaced Childhood (and most of the other Marillion albumsEmbarrassed), A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, the Theusz Hamtaakh trilogy, The Window of Life, Not of This World, Queen II, A Night at the Opera, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, Harvest of Souls, The Lamia, In the Presence of Enemies, Night, 13th Star, Metropolis (part 1 and 2)... So I think a lot of albums/songs can be a masterpieceTongue
 
The genre that produces most of the masterpieces, well....that's a really easy one:
                                                                          Progressive Rock!!!
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2009 at 20:15
Originally posted by Basíleia Basíleia wrote:

A real masterpiece has to stirr anyone, and it really doesn't matter who, emotionally, thus eventually every single album/song can be a masterpiece (there are so many people on this earth, you knowWink)...
For me personally quite a lot of albums have this aspect, for example: Brave, Somewhere Else, Misplaced Childhood (and most of the other Marillion albumsEmbarrassed), A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, the Theusz Hamtaakh trilogy, The Window of Life, Not of This World, Queen II, A Night at the Opera, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, Harvest of Souls, The Lamia, In the Presence of Enemies, Night, 13th Star, Metropolis (part 1 and 2)... So I think a lot of albums/songs can be a masterpieceTongue
 
The genre that produces most of the masterpieces, well....that's a really easy one:
                                                                          Progressive Rock!!!

Just looking at your list reinforces my opinion that there is no such creature.  Music is waay too subjective for your criteria. 

Going back to the original criteria:
Originally posted by crimson87 crimson87 wrote:

In your opinion:
 
  • What are the principal atributes a masterpiece must have?
  • Do you consider that few albums deserve this label?
  • Which is the genre that produces the most of them?

 


1. Attributes has two "t"s. TongueWink
2. If masterpiece = total perfection, then pretty much no albums warrant though may come close to that label.
3. For those that do approach it, it is not exclusive to any particular sub.  I'll get back to you as soon as I have listened to everything out there.  After a while and after you get familiar with more and more music, it becomes an asymptotic exercise.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 15 2009 at 20:17
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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I A Masterpiece must    1.  Sound good. .. musical tones and phrases that you've never heard before A well embodiment of mind Humility.  Great Lyrics La- De-Da.  You know what.....(it took me a light-year to find the delete button)   You know what ...this is kinda bs cuz everyone defines a masterpiece in hisorherownway
A MASTERPIECE MUST fullfill the urges of your musical soul and yet reflect the inner-listener as he recognizes himself. Lets Go To The Master And Ask Him.....
Beethoven   and i mean only Beethoven  There is  and can only be one beethoven and if Im wrong the n call me an  ass.  But Im am right about this as I am many things, all of you Great Great TALENTED PEOPLE.  We start and finish with Beethoven.  WHY?  Because
A.   He commands you to Concentrate
B.  He rewards you with Pure musical bliss
3.  He Reminds you that it is He that is the Master
 Beethoven will always give you a signature ending that says,"composed By Beethoven" for example the minuete will have ended and then a tonic note GGG   GGGGGGG GGGGGG (upper register GGGGGG middle register GGGGGG lower regeister GGGGG and then FINALLY amajor 7th note against the tonic (which is sour, yet it fits)   That is a work of a master. You feel Happy, you feel clean .  You know that the composer repects you as a Divine human being that is treated with repect  re: both genders .I find Masterpieces mainly in Gospel music without instrumentation (only Choral Because there is a spirit to the Human Spirit that reaches out to God. It must push the envelope of feeling and sincerity. And it MUST hold your attention until the last phrasing leaves you tingling with chills of Gratefullness because YOU WERE THERE with the song and the song gave you back yourself only In a More Comprehensive way. and you become enlightened. A Masterpiece says BE YOU!!

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