Musical Style

[RomanticStrings 62]

My favorite style is movie score, but classical comes next.

~Conor

[King Mark 3,975]

In this kind of forum,your likely to get mostly Film Score or Classical(which doesn't exclude you may like some of the other stuff)

Personally I see Pop music as stuff to put ambiances in nightclubs,but then again 95% of people will tell you filmusic is mere ambiance for movies.I don't own a single pop album or listen to it on it's own.I don't like lyrics telling me what to think,and Williams can do that with a symphony orchestra.

K.M.

[Yoda Longbottom 0]

Although I perchance respect all brands of music, I voted for classical with film music close second. I bought my first classical album in 1995, which was Sergey Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" excerpts with Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti's baton. My first movie score was Seven Years in Tibet, which I bought in 1997.

[jsawruk 0]

You'll be surprised with my response

Me - upset that Techno was listed as a style, yet all other forms of electronic music were ignored (along with other musical styles too!).

[RomanticStrings 62]

Me - upset that Techno was listed as a style, yet all other forms of electronic music were ignored (along with other musical styles too!).

I tried to put as many styles as I could think of on the poll, and I thought of techno as all electronic music. No that I think of it, I should have done other, as well. Oh, well.

~Conor

[Miguel Andrade 1,727]

Classical. I wouldn't go for Film Music, since the film music I like to listen too is Classical influenced (no Zimmer and friends, and electronic gadgets here, sorry)

[Marian Schedenig 11,695]

I don't make a big difference between "classical" and film music. Usually, you can't draw a clear line, the only difference is the structure, which is film-based in film scores.

And a score like Star Wars is more "classical" than a concert work like Kilar's Exodus or Adam's Harmonielehre anyway.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

I have alot of movie soundtracks, I also have alot of country cd's.

Rock n Roll encompases rock, metal, grundge, alternative, pop, hiphop, rap, and various other forms of music. I have some of each, with the exception of rap, which as a whole I despise, though individually I might like a few rap songs.

I have a little classical, but overall I don't listen to much classical.

John Williams dominates my collection, next is James Horner, then Goldsmith, through in some Hamlisch, some Silvestri, and some Mancini. I have one Michael Kamen cd, for the sole reason to have the Licence to Kill song by Gladys Knight.

In vocal cd's I have more Madonna, than any other single recording artist. I have alot of Annie Lennox, Garth Brooks, Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Aerosmith, the BEATLES, Elton John, Journey, Jimmy Buffet, Rod Stewart. Not much from the void I like to call the 90's and 2000's.

Joe

[Wickenstein 0]

I view movie scores as the offspring of classical music and operatic score. Seriously, film music is where much of the best classical music is being written nowadays. I have trouble coming up with classical compositions written in the last ten years that weren't by film composers.

[Ray Barnsbury 8]

Film scores

I also have a lot of rock/pop CDs from my days BJW (before John Williams), but they don't get much play time anymore.

Ray Barnsbury

[Miguel Andrade 1,727]

I should add, that my collection is primarily made up of Classical/Film Music. Orchestral Music. I have some 50 jazz cds' (in a collection of about 1400), some of them by Mr. Williams, and a few musicals, mostly by George Gershin (one of my all time favorite composers -- he also wrote for film in his last living year, 1938) and Richard Rodgers. I have some gospel and country cd's (or lp-to-cd'r transfers) were Mr. Williams worked as arranger/conductor, for Mahalia Jakson, Frankie Lane and others.

I have some cd's that I haven't leastened in years by Genesis, and very rarely I will play something by Toto or some other band like this, from the late 70's-early 80's.

Basically I listen to orchestral scores. And I'm not much into opera, although I love Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), The Tender Land (Copland), Candide (L. Bersntein) and Wuthering Heights (Herrmann).

[The Five Tones 305]

And a score like Star Wars is more "classical" than a concert work like Kilar's Exodus or Adam's Harmonielehre anyway.

When I have played Harmonielehre for people, they often commented that it was very filmic! But I know what you mean.

Personally, I would have voted for Classical Contemporary, that is the music of the last 100 years, as opposed to the Baroque to Romantic eras.

[ocelot 565]

I voted classical since the film composers I listen to are classically traied and therefor classical composers.... Williams, Korngold, Herrmann, Steiner, Waxman, Friedhoffer, Fenton, etc etc etc..... I don't like the film composers that sound like stock film music. It just sounds like crap to me. I don;t know if Goldsmith is classically trained but I think he is incredible with what he does too, and the time he can do it in is unequalled.

[Miguel Andrade 1,727]

I do believe that Goldsmith is in fact classical trained.

[Marian Schedenig 11,695]

I do believe that Goldsmith is in fact classical trained.

Define "classical trained". Goldsmith studied with Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, among others - like Williams did, too.

[Miguel Andrade 1,727]

I believe he also studied at USC, but might be wrong...

[Figo 2]

And a score like Star Wars is more "classical" than a concert work like Kilar's Exodus or Adam's Harmonielehre anyway.

HaHa! What a piece of crap Kilar's Exodus is!

Frankly, I'm surprised how many of you actually share my musical tastes. Of course, I voted classical. Like ocelot, if I listen to film music, it is mostly the old timers, or those who have something interesting to say and the technique to say it. If I listen to too much of the recent stuff, I start to become furious. (Like fivetones, however, most of my favorite composers lived within the last 100 years.)

Wickenstein, I am surprised to hear someone who likes classical music say he can't think of much being written in the past decade, and that the best stuff is now in film! Especially as the past ten years have been very weak for film, in general. But perhaps your personal tastes don't extend much past Wagner? For a giant on the current musical scene, look no further than a young Scotsman named James MacMillan. His recent piece The Quickening -- no relation to Highlander LOL -- put my hair on end. Not sure if it's been recorded yet, but lots of his other pieces have. Explore! He is the real thing! Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finland's most revered living composer, continues to do fine work in a very accessible style. John Adams may have written some gooey pieces at the start of his career, but his oratorio El Nino is a masterpiece. John Corigliano, a classical composer who sometimes works in film, won a Pulitzer Prize -- not for The Red Violin, but for his 2nd Symphony. The past decade has also seen a lot more concert music from the pen of some guy named John Williams.

Like Miguel, I adore Copland's flawed but beautiful opera The Tender Land.

[Ollie 1,375]

I'm not a big fan of Classical music. My main love is film music, after that I would say heavy metal; AC/DC, Metallica, Def Leppard, Van Halen and then throw in The Police, Madonna, U2 and that about sums it up for me.

[Miguel Andrade 1,727]

... and like Figo I also care for Corigliano music. I've catched a Rautavaara symphony on Classical Radio some time ago and loved it so much (I think it was the 7th). I have a compilation of his works on Ondine Records, a Finland based label. I remember hearing some MacMilan muisc some tima ago, and made a very good impresion on me. I also know some of Adams ealrier works, and love them.

And must say, that this guy called John Williams ( ), who his writting all those concertos is quite amazing... I keep coming back to his concert music even more than his film music!

[ymenard 68]

I voted for techno, yeah blasphemy!!! But really "techno" is such a wrong term for IDM, and artists such as Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Amon Tobin, Brian Eno, Labradford, stretching out to the post-rock era in which we are currently in (people aren't seeing that, but it's happening _right now_ my friends).

Nobody listens to techno. It's an impossible music to listen. It can only be danced. IDM is electronic music for the brain, not the body.

Of course, I still have over 200 movies scores <G>

[ZAMBELIS 0]

I think of film scores as classical music. Like music for operas, ballet or theater. I don't want to vote one against the other because I think it is not fair. Besides i have almost anything that John Williams has ever written like Images, Checkmate or Monsignor and I also own everything that was written by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. Williams is not and never will be as good as those two but I think he is a lot better than many famous classical composers. Of course most film composers aren't so good. Herrmann, Rozsa, Alfred Newman, Tiomkin, Goldsmith, Waxman, Korngold, Friedhofer, Morricone, Williams, Jarre, Rota certainly are very talented and I am sure that could all be very succesful in the concert world. Some of them are allready, including the Maestro. The rest are not worthwile to be mentioned. I personally think that only Doyle and Goldenthal can surprise us in the future with some exceptional writing for film and concert as well.

[RomanticStrings 62]

I figured movie scores would have a good representation. I wasn't sure what would be next, but I had a feeling it might be classical. Like I said above, I like movie scores the most. A few of the scores out there don't do anything for me, but I enjoy most of them, especially those of the greats, in one way or another. Classical is my next favorite, but that's about it. In the jazz area, I really only like white jazz, or swing, as it is commonly reffered to as. I enjoy some folk music, and Irish music is some of my favorite.

~Conor

[tpigeon 3]

i voted for movie scores, despite my appreciation for almost every other option on this poll. i like a lot of music, and some of it i love. but film music is the only branch of music that really does it for me. i've always thought that it deserves much more credibility as a genre of music also. and i think that Wickenstein put it perfectly in how the best classical compositions of today are done mostly by film composers.

i like a lot of classical, but i don't know enough about it. i know the basics of it and have a few compilations from composers such as Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner. a lot of it, it seems, is very abstract, which means that an appreciation for much of it is acquired. i'm starting to appreciate it much more, but film music will probably always be my favorite.

[Marian Schedenig 11,695]

HaHa!  What a piece of crap Kilar's Exodus is!

:wow: 8O banghead eek2 censored

Marian -

[Figo 2]

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

I have two recordings of Exodus. It could have been better with some judicious trimming, perhaps, but personally I find the trick of the long, monotonous crescendo (over 23 minutes!) barely tolerable even in Ravel's far-superior (and shorter) Bolero. Kilar does not possess Ravel's flair for orchestral color. And I'm sorry, the gimmick with the aleotoric voices at the end just doesn't do it for me.

Figo, who far prefers Kilar's Krzesany, which he actually heard in concert.

[Figo 2]

If his goal was to write a piece that feels as long as the actual Exodus, he certainly succeeded!

Figo, feeling every moment of the ancient Hebrews' bitter suffering.

Kilar's Exodus

[Ren 77]

I voted jazz because there's more to life than movie scores.

[Lord Gibson 0]

Shocking!!

[Ren 77]

LOL

[Mari 279]

Classical! It was my love for classical music that started my exploration of movie scores. 8O

Mari

[RomanticStrings 62]

That's funny, it was my love of movie scores that got me into classical music.

~Conor

[tpigeon 3]

same here. i would have never started to really appreciate classical if it weren't for movie scores.

[Figo 2]

Guilty!

Figo, who never knew there was such a thing as orchestral music, except in a vague sort of way, before Star Wars.

[Morn 8]

Mesa too.