wilkiemart Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I have recently started listening to classical music but the only stuff i really know is beethoven and dvorak. dvorak is deffinately my favorite, but like, i really like expirimental so i was wondering if there is and good experimental classical type of music or any good contemporary music at all. i just dont know where to start looking so ill take all suggestions thanks :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oboeducky Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 THEY DON'T EXIST ahahahaha. wrong forum, btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qmwne235 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I can't speak for "good" and "bad", but here are a few: Penderecki, Stockhausen, Boulez, Ligeti, Xenakis, Birtwistle, Crumb, Dello Joio, Corigliano, Reich, (John) Adams, (La Monte) Young, Glass, Riley, Part, Gorecki, and...well...many, many others. By the way, some of these are more "listenable" than others for those who haven't heard much contemporary music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilkiemart Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 I can't speak for "good" and "bad", but here are a few:Penderecki, Stockhausen, Boulez, Ligeti, Xenakis, Birtwistle, Crumb, Dello Joio, Corigliano, Reich, (John) Adams, (La Monte) Young, Glass, Riley, Part, Gorecki, and...well...many, many others. By the way, some of these are more "listenable" than others for those who haven't heard much contemporary music. Thanks :D Im pretty open minded when it comes to listening to new music. so im sure ill find someone in the names that you mentioned i will enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilkiemart Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 which forum should this topic go in for future reference??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinjessome Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 which forum should this topic go in for future reference??? I moved it for you. I figure it belongs here, in Composer's Headquarters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Opperman Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Eric Whitacre and Morten Lauridsen compose absolutely gorgeous choral works. ~Christian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 There are some good ones right here on this forum. In particular, I would reccomend QcCowboy (Michel Edward) and nikolas (Nikolas Sideris). In terms of composers not on this site, I cannot reccomend anyone more highly than Alan Belkin. Check his website out here: Alan Belkin, composer Lots of his music is available on there to listen to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salemosophy Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 You're looking for experimental music and people are recommending that you listen to minimalists, post-romantics, a few Avant Garde guys, and generally tonal composers (with the exception of Xenakis, right?). I'm a bit surprised at the recommendations, honestly. You want 'experimental'. Look into Morton Feldman, John Cage (aleatoric, "chance" work), Elliot Carter (specifically his Symphony of Three Orchestras), and Stockhausen (for a comparison to Carter, his Gruppen, also for three orchestras). Also give a listen to Reich's Different Trains if you like the electronic aesthetic (which you can also compare against Honegger's Pacific 231 if you'd like). There are a barrage of other futurist composers as well that you can look into, the contemporary equivalent of the style being almost anything from Edgar Varese, some of the above-mentioned composers, and George Antheil's works Airplane Sonata, Death of the Machines, and Ballet Mechanic. I mean, you're looking for more 'experimental' works, aren't you? Most of these works are about as far away from what you've been listening to as you can get, if that's really what you're after. Good listening and let us know what you find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgrafe@indiana.edu Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Eric Whitacre and Morten Lauridsen compose absolutely gorgeous choral works. I used to think Lauridsen was okay until I heard his Lux Aeterna. Not only does it sound identical to everything else he's written, it's just 30 minutes of pure schlock in the first place. It speaks to American taste in classical music when Morten Lauridsen can make enough money to buy himself an island and a living master like Elliott Carter has to rely on Europe for the vast majority of his radio play time. Bluh. *End rant* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikolas Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Daniel: Thanks ^_^ For other more... "elegant", or less "dissonant" names try: Shostakovich Prokofiev Berg Schnittke Messiaen Kancheli Stravinsky Charles Ives and many others, from whom film composers have borrowed a lot of things, so their music does seem to be more... edible. Not experimental, not in almost all the cases, but certainly interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourthage Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I've always quite liked Berio, James MacMillan and if Shostakovich is contemporary then so is Benjamin Britten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilkiemart Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 THanks again everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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