Current Events > Pretty amazing to think this song was written before Mozart, and Beethoven.

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Ehhh, it's okay. Needs more g-funk.

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Bach, as a teenager, said "Okay guys we're doing music like this now" and 300 years later they're still doing it his way.

That's cool and all but can he spit bars?

Vivaldi was his contemporary, just as good IMO, plenty of enduring pieces. Before either of them though, it's really hard to find any music good enough that someone today might recognize it. Greensleeves is at least 100 years older and pretty well known. Don't know of anything older than that.

That's cool and all but can he spit bars?

Oh a little addendum to this...
There are stories that once Handle happened to be a town or so over from where Bach was at at the time.

They were trying to set up an Organ freestyle match, but Handle bitched out. Twice.

what instrument did he write it for since there was no piano?

He made the grade and no sad tales here.

I guess he couldn't

*puts on sunglasses*

*puts on second pair of sunglasses over first*

Handle it

I guess he couldn't

*puts on sunglasses*

*puts on second pair of sunglasses over first*

Handle it

Hehe, basically. Though Handle was good, just not on Bachs level...but that's true for everyone.

Why did Bach have 20 children?....

Because he liked to hit it from the Bach

The only stuff older I can think of is all gospel music. I'm sure there's gotta be something from BCE that survived though.

The oldest surviving complete work of music is Epitaph if Seikilos from Ancient Greece.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mGfOHoun0OQ

Thanks for the tune but maybe you should edit out the hyperlink so it doesn't embed lmao

Thanks for the tune but maybe you should edit out the hyperlink so it doesn't embed lmao

I don't follow? Posting from phone so I had to use a mobile link lol

finally a quality topic on ce

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That really is something cause literally Ive heard all of that referenced whenever someone tries to inject classical into something - its always pieces of these phrases

Que?

All these licks are what are still being played today whenever someone goes for a classical style motif when theyre improvising

Ya, but the point is, this Baroque, well before the Classical Era.
But I know what you mean know.

The first half of Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied is pure fire once it gets going.
It translates into, Sing unto the Lord a new song, and starts on an ancient chord, and later finds itself in an almost psychedelic cacophony.

Ya, but the point is, this Baroque, well before the Classical Era.
But I know what you mean know.

This would be approaching the classical sound, and is in fact from the second book of the WTC, so 20 years out from the first song.

Classical Era isn't the same thing as Classical Music though really. "Classical Music" is going to encompass Baroque, Classical, Opera, and Renaissance music.

Ohhhhh.. huh, that really IS something then

Was that symphony you posted awhile ago also a J.S Bach thing? iirc you said it was like Sgt. Peppers before the idea of that was ever a thing

You're a Mozart fan. I love him too. I looooove Mozart! He was Austrian you know? But for this kind of work
*imitates playing the piano*
he's a little bit light. So I tend to go for the heavier guys. Check out Brahms. He's good too.

Classical Era isn't the same thing as Classical Music though really. "Classical Music" is going to encompass Baroque, Classical, Opera, and Renaissance music.

When I listen to Bach I get the impression that the guy was just an mathematician on the spectrum trying to write down as many variations of a pattern as possible.

It's wonderful though

In general conversation yes.
But there is a difference....and you left out Romantic.
And Opera isn't an era, that would mostly fall into The Classical period.

Opera as a style predates Bach. Well before the classical period.