only after we silly white people had borified black music did classical re-enter the pop stratosphere and ELP everything up!

that's folk music

classical music was for the rich

Some of it was: Haydn, for example, was sneered at by the critics for being populist. Vivaldi was also a hack writer who spent most of his time banging out operas - which were open to the general public - rather than the concertos everyone remembers him for now.

indeedy.
APPLAUSE

more praise. well done

I'm wrong, it's 'Samskeyti' but it makes fucking angry. It sounds like a made up word as well and that just makes me boil up. It's indefensible.

It sounds like one of those made-up words as well. What. Fucking. Twats.

Except that in much Baroque music the performers were expected to use the notes on the page merely as the basis of improvisation, which is more like your description of classical music.

Essentially it's difficult to generalise much about classical music, because it's typically used to cover several hundred years worth of pieces from a number of different opposing traditions. (Although Classical-with-a-capital-C music is only a more restricted repertoire from about 1750-1820).

yeh im only 15, so i dont know much about classical music, i only found this site trying to search for sigur ros chords, and i came across this guys comment having a go at sigur ros.
as i said i dont know alot about music, like ive got no idea what tonic-dominant notes means or anything, but i think it was pretty harsh what you said about sigur ros. everyone has different tastes in music, and i know that alot of people like sigur ros, and the song staralfur, which you pretty much ripped apart. fair enough if you dont like it, and dont think its as creative as other more classical music, but you dont have to call it dumb, boring, dull and narrow, cause alot of other people, including me, think that its a wonderful song.
you say that the shostakovich 10th symphony brings alot out of you, because its strange and original, but thats how alot of people think about bands like sigur ros. you shouldnt reli compare sigur ros to say an old classical composer, cause of course its gonna be different, theyre two different genres, and possibly two different timelines, but i dont dont know enough about classical history to say that fully. i think that you need to take into account other peoples music likes and dislikes, and accept that not everyone likes old classical music, especially teenagers like me, and be less criticizing over other types of music, just because it repeats alot of chords and notes.
fair enough if it annoys you, but you dont have to state your opinion as harsh as that, cause its better than most of the music coming out now days.
yeh cheers for that.

that album by joanna newsom?

it is quite good. and it wouldn't be nearly as good without the backing arrangements.