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Emotion emotion emotion emotion emotion blahblahblahblah
What is an "emotional harmony", can you please tell me that? What about a harmony is inherently emotional? Isn't the lack of emotion an emotion anyway? Listen, I'm pretty sure you say the word "emotion" at least 7 times in each of your posts, and it really isn't helping your credibility, it's the real reason someone here might have a problem with your posts, they just haven't admitted it. I can understand if you find some of the gestures and ideas of the Romantic composers attractive, some of it is quite good, but seriously drop the "OH IT'S SO EMOTIONAL
" schlock. It is frankly an immature way to approach music, any music. What, do you think Beethoven just sat his piano sobbing and he transcribed the sound of his tears hitting the ground into the Pastorale symphony? No, he still was very concerned about technique, and form, and sound, all the things every composer of EVERY era was concerned about. Now the thing with the Romantic era is that you find a wider array of "emotions", styles, images, what have you in a given movement which you don't find in the Baroque and Classical, but this obviously doesn't make any of this music not worth giving any time. Most "emotion" is music is created by the performers anyway, not the composer. I've heard some dim performances on the Fifth, that's just life. Honestly though, I know you're young so you'll get over it soon (I was there once haha), but there is more to music than the bombast. "Oh man, big loud chords and drums and oh my god this is so amazing and EMOTIONAL OH MY GOD", and then you hear the Goldberg Variations and you think, "Oh this is boring". I get where you're coming from, you're going to get over it. Because seriously....give me Bach or John Adams any day over.....Dvorak/Tchaikovsky (shudders).
For the record, just because *you* don't like a piece of music does not mean that that particular music lacks effect for others that hear it. Therefore, a piece can't "lack emotion", you just don't like it. People really need to practice more objectivity on this board.