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King Crimson776 
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Posted: November 27 2007 at 22:43 |
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I think that there are some classical pieces that beat any jazz, but overall jazz is better (like a random jazz song is better than a random classical piece more often) and has so many varying styles like fusion etc. So I choose jazz, what is your choice?
Edited by King Crimson776 - November 27 2007 at 23:04
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ProgBagel
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Posted: November 27 2007 at 22:51 |
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Jazz Fusion...I don't like jazz. In relation to the poll...I choose jazz because there was freedom and experimentation in it. Classical was too rigid
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King Crimson776
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Posted: November 27 2007 at 22:53 |
 ProgBagel wrote:
Jazz Fusion...I don't like jazz. In relation to the poll...I choose jazz because there was freedom and experimentation in it. Classical was too rigid |
yeah yeah, right on, any type of jazz counts
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Sckxyss
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 00:00 |
I haven't given classical enough of a chance to vote.. it scares me, in a way. With modern music, you have a band that compose their piece, then release it as an album, performed by themselves. With classical, there's a composer that writes their music on paper, and eventually gets played and recorded by many, many orchestras! I don't know where to go! It's also harder to come by recommendations or do research on this music since I no so little about it. It's rather sad, really.
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King Crimson776
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 00:27 |
Sckxyss wrote:
I haven't given classical enough of a chance to vote.. it scares me, in a way. With modern music, you have a band that compose their piece, then release it as an album, performed by themselves. With classical, there's a composer that writes their music on paper, and eventually gets played and recorded by many, many orchestras! I don't know where to go! It's also harder to come by recommendations or do research on this music since I no so little about it. It's rather sad, really.
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Beethoven, Holst, Stravinsky and Gershwin are my favorites, all from different eras and backgrounds. I would certainly recomend all of them. Just go to Wikipedia dude, you'll learn all kinds of sh*t on Classical. Afterall, that is the bright side of this whole information overload generation. 
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ClassicRocker
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 00:55 |
Sckxyss wrote:
I haven't given classical enough of a chance to vote.. it scares me, in a way. With modern music, you have a band that compose their piece, then release it as an album, performed by themselves. With classical, there's a composer that writes their music on paper, and eventually gets played and recorded by many, many orchestras! I don't know where to go! It's also harder to come by recommendations or do research on this music since I no so little about it. It's rather sad, really.
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I know exactly what you mean; it's really intimidating to start, and especially the song titles which are generally much more difficult to recall a sound (so many numbers and repeated titles!)
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Teh_Slippermenz
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 02:50 |
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I love classical, but I like jazz better. Because of Jazz-Fusion!
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Novalis
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 03:08 |
Apples and Oranges.
But I voted Classical to even things up.
Edited by Novalis - December 06 2007 at 00:34
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fuxi
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 03:29 |
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Classical music usually touches me more deeply than jazz, but I often long for the FREEDOM of jazz. I couldn't live without either. It all depends on my mood.
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Dean
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 04:29 |
I voted Classical but I don't like the Baroque/Classical/Romantic eras much, prefering 20th Century and Contemporary more.
Jazz is something I enjoy listening to but I am not au fait with all of the styles, so tend to like what I like when I hear it.
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What?
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paloz
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 08:23 |
Unfortunately, I can't afford jazz yet. I'm really trying, but I don't manage to find a true JAZZ cd that I love.
Classical music is all outstanding, a passion.  |
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Norbert
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 08:35 |
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Classical forme,especially Baroque and even earlier music.
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Shakespeare
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 08:36 |
First of all, this is not a prog poll.
King Crimson776 wrote:
I think that there are some classical pieces that beat any jazz, but overall jazz is better (like a random jazz song is better than a random classical piece more often) |
What is that supposed to mean? If you picked a classical song out of a hat, it would be worse than any jazz song you picked out of a hat more often? How can you follow that as a rule? And that is 100% subjective.
| and has so many varying styles like fusion etc. |
Minimalism Anti-minimalism Opera Romantic Baroque Experimental/Avant-garde Soundtrack 20th Century Composer and so on, and so on,
| So I choose jazz, what is your choice? |
Classical. My three favourite genres are Prog, Classical and Jazz, so it's not as if I dislike jazz in the slightest.
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Yorkie X
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 09:00 |
should be in polls not prog polls shouldn't it ? 
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smokey
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 11:29 |
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I'm going to have to go with Jazz. It's not that I don't like classical, I just find that in relation, I listen to Jazz more.
Now if it was Jazz/Fusion Vs. Symphonic Prog, that would be a different (and harder) story.
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Tales From Topographic Oceans
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jimidom
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 12:06 |
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Gotta go with classical but by the slightest of margins. I am a classically-trained percussionist, but I enjoy both jazz and classical tremendously and have played both live. Some of the most fun I've had was performing classical works that had a jazz influence such as Still's Afro-Anerican Symphony, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Gershwin's Catfish Row, and Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite.
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jimidom
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 12:15 |
ProgBagel wrote:
Jazz Fusion...I don't like jazz. In relation to the poll...I choose jazz because there was freedom and experimentation in it. Classical was too rigid |
I would agree with you generally speaking, but classical became VERY free and experimental in the 20th century losing much of the rigidity from earlier times. Check out Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, and of course John Cage, who challenged the very definiton of music with his works.
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"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST
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Spacemac
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 12:34 |
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Classical
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Abstrakt
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 12:50 |
Jazz probably, since it's closer to my taste in prog.
But there are some wonderful Classical melodies!
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Bj-1
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Posted: November 28 2007 at 12:56 |
I love Jazz, but I like Classical as well.
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