Music Classifications

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Ok three questions for our instrumentalists (all of you who don't play instruments... Pity)---

1. What is your favorite STYLE of music to play---

ex. Baroque, Classic, Romantic, Contemporary, Modern, Post-Modern, ect...

2. What is your favorite PIECE to play---

ex. Sonata in B Minor, Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, ect... (it can be from any time period)

3. Why did you start to play an instrument---

ex. There are none.

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(If this doesn't belong here... then move it please)

Ok three questions for our instrumentalists (all of you who don't play instruments... Pity)---

1. What is your favorite STYLE of music to play---

ex. Baroque, Classic, Romantic, Contemporary, Modern, Post-Modern, ect...

2. What is your favorite PIECE to play---

ex. Sonata in B Minor, Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, ect... (it can be from any time period)

3. Why did you start to play an instrument---

ex. There are none.

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For piano: I like playing contemporary tonal music. I'm not good enough to wrap my fingers around a lot of heavily atonal stuff yet, though what I can do I like too. I like playing music from "The Light in the Piazza" and "Floyd Collins," two contemporary classical musical theatre scores.

For voice: I like singing Romantic/neo-Romantic literature. The depth of expression one can give with voice is great. My favorite piece to sing is actually a piece for cello - The Swan, from Saint-Säens' Carnival des Animaux. It works great for a tenor/countertenor voice. I also like singing musical theatre pieces of the new and arty variety.

I started playing piano at age 4. I started ACTUALLY singing at age 9, though I was doing nursery rhymes and stuff since time immemorial.

Favorite style: Nationalistic

Favorite piece to play: Too hard to decide. Really any nationalistic piece. Haven't found one I dislike.

I started playing Bassoon in Jr. High because no one else was and I thought it looked cool.

My favorite Style of music is either Baroque or Romantic, I like to try to combine the two, but ultimately that's impossible, they're so different.

My favorite piece of all time to play is Sor's Variations on a Theme by Mozart (guitar)

I started playing an instrument cause I got sick of listening to the same thing on the radio so I decided to make my own music. oulia!

1.) My favorite style of music to play would have to be modern Jazz/funk.

2.) The hardest peice I know would either be Marriage of Figaro or Rondo Alla Turca- both on vibes, the latter with marimba playing the bass line.

Ah! A marimbist who doesn't play that freakin' minimalist shite.

I've been working on Chopin's G minor Ballade and starting to get close to a playable version.

My fav is Ravel's Valley Of The Bells.

I primarily play the piano, you can check my Wiki profile to see my current repertoire. Of those pieces, my favorites to play are Serenade for the Doll, Rhapsody in Blue, Clair de Lune, May Night, Day Dream, and Zug der Zwerge. I'm really big on Impressionistic and Romantic stuff, as well as the early 20th-century jazz works.

The piece I WISH I played is Rzewski's variations on American folk tunes.

Organ-

1. Favorite style? American Modern, or French Impressionist(although the latter is usually much harder to play, I'm talking about Messaien..)

2. Favorite Piece? Uh...I like playing William Albright's hymn 'Petrus' from the hymnal, or Matthias' 'Glory to God', or Schaltz's 'Now'

3. I started to play organ because the organist at our church couldn't work well with a choir, and he couldn't sight read decently. So I learned organ and eventually he was playing all the hymns and service music, and I was doing the anthems with the choir.

Voice?

1. Style? French!!! So pretty to sing, and being a lyric baritone-tenor 2, it fits my voice perfectly.

2. Piece? I donno, I'll list composers: Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, also Hugo Wolf(German), Copland, Bernstein, Sondheim

3. Why did I start? I donno. I only really 'started' when I was 14 or 15, and was still a soprano. :D

Bb clarinet.

1. What is your favorite STYLE of music to play---

I'll pick off that list and say Romantic or contemporary. Both I find satisfying for different reasons.

2. What is your favorite PIECE to play---

Based solely on pieces that I can actually play well enough for performance only:

Um, Maybe Debussy, Premiere Rhapsody. When it goes well, I feel really joyous inside. When it goes badly, I am disappointed that I wasted an opportunity.

3. Why did you start to play an instrument---

We got a Bundy at out neighbor's yard sale for $25. I didn't really have a choice in the matter. I ended up liking it quite a bit anyway.

My grandmother owned this really old crappy organ which was stored in my room. So, when I was like 7 I started playing with it.

Are you for real? That's how I started organ lessons at 7. No lie.

Ah! A marimbist who doesn't play that freakin' minimalist shite.

...First off, I'm a vibraphonist (is that a word?), not a marimbist. Second, I do play that 'minimalist shite,' just not often. Third, I forgot to answer question number three:

When I was in 5th grade, my school had a REALLY crappy 'orchestra.' I never joined it, it wasn't cool, and it sounded awful. Then I moved to indiana, and the guy that was showing me around school was a percussionist, so in band I just followed him and did what he did. Pretty soon I learned to play by ear, and about in 8th grade (3 years ago) I learned how to read music.

Vibraphone was kind of an odd instrument, and since nobody played it, I decided to take the job.

...That was lengthy :happy:

~Kal

I was a percussionist for my college's Wind Ensemble this past year, and I did the vibes too. Of course, I did plenty of other things, and all that gave me a great grasp on writing for orchestral percussion.

Marimba was rough. For mallets in general, I had a really hard time playing the faster stuff, and marimba was always fast stuff. My hat's off to those who can play mallets well.

1. What is your favorite STYLE of music to play---

Classical - Romantic (like around Beethoven's time) (but more on the romantic side of things...

2. What is your favorite PIECE to play---

Ummm thats a hard one... Nocturne (OP. 9 NO. 3) or Pathetic sonata by old beety

3. Why did you start to play an instrument---

Cant remember exactly... but i was told by me parents that it was 4 and a half... on the PIANO :)

Favorite style to play:

Early 20th century (Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff)

Favorite piece to play:

I always seem to come back to Rachmaninoff's Prelude in D op.23 no.4.

Why did you start playing?

My parents bought a piano so I had to take lessons.

1. My favorite style of music to play is from the late classical to late romantic

2. My favorite piece to play is the Tempest Sonata by Beethoven, Prelude op23 no5 by Rachmaninoff

3. Why did you start to play an instrument....? To be honest, I don't know. I just heard my sister playing the piano and love the sound it makes.

Favorite style to play:

mid-late Romantic

Favorite piece to play:

Piano - Szymanowsky, Etude Op. 4 No. 3

Violin - Bruch, Scottish Fantasy or Borodin, String Quartet No. 2

Viola - Brahms, Piano Quartet No. 1

Why I started:

Piano - started lessons when I was 6 or so.

Violin - my little sister started lessons, so I started teaching myself because I didn't want to be one-upped! Strangely enough, I'm still playing and she's not.

Viola - couldn't find a violist to fill out a string quartet.

1. What is your favorite STYLE of music to play---

Romantic style, of course.

2. What is your favorite PIECE to play---

Piano: "F

Okay fine...

1. Style to play = jazz/creative music

2. Favorite Piece = ??!! BAHAHAHAHA....impossible. I do tend to lean towards good vehicles for improvisation - tunes by the big four: Ornette, Coltrane, Monk, Mingus.

3. Why did I start? I started playing in band, grade 7. Just because...I didn't want to take 'industrial arts'. I wanted a trumpet, they tried to give me a clarinet, so I took a trombone...

Okay fine...

1. Style to play = jazz/creative music

2. Favorite Piece = ??!! BAHAHAHAHA....impossible. I do tend to lean towards good vehicles for improvisation - tunes by the big four: Ornette, Coltrane, Monk, Mingus.

3. Why did I start? I started playing in band, grade 7. Just because...I didn't want to take 'industrial arts'. I wanted a trumpet, they tried to give me a clarinet, so I took a trombone...

Yay, finally someone who like jazz!:)

~Kal

_I mean seriously, classical's fine, but jazz is the shiznack!

...don't ask where i got that word.:)

Yay, finally someone who like jazz!:P

You'll find most people swing both ways, and are generally quite tolerable of any style...

But you're right, jazz is the shiznack...