That Mozart's Requiem shit is TIGHT.

I've liked this piece for a long time, but last night I was sitting in bed writing, and when I played this, the words just flowed and flowed and flowed. The music just connects with all my creative and emotional triggers and unlocks my brain in a way most pop music can't. It's kind of amazing.

I think I'm going to go on a requiems kick this year...I've been wanting the Cherubini requiem that was featured at the end of "Fire Walk With Me", but apparently the guy composed several requiems, and I'm not sure which one it is...I have one Cherubini requiem, but it's not the one. It's nice, though.

Anyone have a favorite classical requiem piece?

Anx said:

DynamicSavior said:

I wouldn't exactly season beef jerky under YOUR mattress, if you know what I'm saying.

Anx said:

I don't know what the hell you're talking about. That must be some 70's gay slang or something and I'm all 80's up in hrr bitch.

DynamicSavior said:

speaking of 80s-era gay, let's get back to talking about requiems.

Anx said:

I would if only I knew what they was.

DynamicSavior said:

wow. you should listen to mozart's requiem. i'm not a fan of classical music, but if it all sounded like this, i would be. it's all dark and sturm und drang and intense and brooding and...just go to the library and check it out for free. it's good.

DynamicSavior said:

A requiem is a song (more specifically, in some cases, a mass) for the dead. We sing them all the time at Church. The Catholics like it pleasant that way.

RipHer2Shreds said:

I want "Face Down" played at my funeral.

Anx said:

minneapolisgenius said:

well, i'm not!

i like some modern classical (what a dumb name), like gavin bryars, brian eno, phillip glass...but there's a lot of classical i don't like...the really frilly-prissy stuff i can't abide. dark, intense stuff like mozart's requiem is more what i like, and there are a lot of really nice cello pieces i've heard that i enjoy - just very simple, kind of stark...i just have no idea where to look for the kind of classical music i like.

Anx said:

What about Stravinsky? That's pretty stark at times. Like "The Rite of Spring" for example.

I always notice how much composers like Leonard Bernstein and John Williams were influenced by Stravinsky when I listen to them. I don't know much about modern classical music though. Phillip Glass always reminds me of this one South Park episode though.

Faure's Requiem is incredible. Take alone the first minute of the Introit et Kyrie. This blows me away all the time.

minneapolisgenius said:

oh, phillip glass is utterly mockable. most of his stuff i can't hack because it sounds like some kind of air raid siren in smurf village or something. but i LOVE his scores for the Qatsi trilogy - "Koyaanisqatsi" in particular is some of my favorite music ever by anyone, and i think "Powwaqatsi" is criminally underrated (i don't think it's even in print).

as for stravinsky, i couldn't tell you...i don't know enough of his work. one thing i can tell you, a lot of the classical stuff considered to be "hits", i tend not to like, and that's just me being a snob. i get hooked with the more obscure stuff, which helps me appreciate the pieces that have been co-opted into the ground by modern media. of course, mozart's requiem is one of those overplayed pieces, so i guess that's an exception.

SenseOfDoubt said:

yeah? i'll have to put that on my list.

Oh and Prokoviev is amazing as well. His Romeo and Juliet for example, is one of the most beautiful compositions IMO. And not "frilly" at all. Some very dark places in there. And Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is also wonderful.

I know what you mean by prissy though. I tend to like a lot of that stuff maybe because of ballet and all. I love "ballet" composers like Minkus, Chopin, Elgar, Debussy, Brahms, Strauss, and of course Tchaikovsky.
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Anx said:

Stravinsky is sort of hard to crack though, because it's all over the place at times. I mean, we've had to dance to it before and it's almost impossible to count.

The choreographer Balanchine collaborated with him on dozens of ballet pieces which made both of them even more famous because it was said that his music could not be choreographed to.

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i wonder what it would sound like if Mozart was able to finish it himself.

minneapolisgenius said:

there was a riot the first time this was played for an audience.


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sinisterpentatonic said:

that's because stravinsky is chronic.

Anx said:

i think the proper term is crunk.

sinisterpentatonic said:

chrunkic.

Anx said:

Stravinsky's "The Rite Of Spring" is the first track on the Banshees' live album 'Nocturne'. It's wacky stuff.

I think I have Mozart's Requiem on the Amadeus soundtrack. I haven't listened to that in awhile. I'll have to check it out again this weekend. My classical CDs are mostly limited to Medieval/Renaissance stuff like Hesperion XX and Sequentia.

On very good authority, i've been given the following suggestions...

Hector Berlioz - Grande Messe des morts
Johannes Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem

..."Feed your head."

Let me know if you're interested in any non-Requiem kind of "out" Classical compositions.

tA

Tribal Disorder

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Anx said:

minneapolisgenius said:

What's the problem? 1-2-3-4...



tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

Yeah, but then it goes to like 13, and then only to 7. It requires us to "learn" the music beforehand, as opposed to just flowing into it easily as we hear it for the first time.

You know us dancers can only count to eight.


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minneapolisgenius said:

Get your mixed-meter in gear.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

I edited my post above to clarify a bit.

But I hate learning more difficult music as I simultaneously learn choreography to it. It's hard to focus on both at the same time.