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SuperFob 11-16-2009 07:12 PM

Is Classical Music considered to be inherently superior to all else?
 
Is it? Or is there any modern music that can hold up? Can John Williams's work, for example, compare to that of any classical composer?

ProggyMan 11-16-2009 07:17 PM

They stopped making good music the day the Holy Roman Empire fell.

jackhammer 11-16-2009 07:21 PM

Frank Zappa is much more fun though. Like beauty; music is in the ears of the beholder or something like that.

mr dave 11-16-2009 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by SuperFob (Post 768304)
Is it? Or is there any modern music that can hold up? Can John Williams's work, for example, compare to that of any classical composer?

why wouldn't it?

you could compare Iron Maiden to classical if you wanted to and IM could come out on top depending on the criteria of the comparison.

to consider one style of music superior to any other style is inane.

Freebase Dali 11-16-2009 07:37 PM

@ OP,

Music superiority is specifically limited to human perspective. So it follows that if a group of people consider a certain type of music to be superior, then to that group, it is.
This applies to every type of music.

The only way to determine what the majority of people consider "superior" is to look at statistics based on people's music opinions.
And if you want to give up the only thing that you're entitled to have that can't be fucked with (aka, your opinion/belief) and let someone else (aka the mass opinion) influence it, then go ahead.

But regarding music, the true answer resides in your own opinion. The moment you let someone else tell you what to think about something, that's when you're classified as a tool.

CanwllCorfe 11-16-2009 07:46 PM

Who's to say? Music isn't about listening to what pretentious and pompous *******s say good music "is".

anticipation 11-16-2009 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe (Post 768331)
Music is about listening to what pretentious and pompous *******s say good music "is".

never has mb been summed up so eloquently until just now.

TheBig3 11-16-2009 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by anticipation (Post 768333)
never has mb been summed up so eloquently until just now.

/agree

Freebase Dali 11-16-2009 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by anticipation (Post 768333)
never has mb been summed up so eloquently until just now.

Amen, Thank you jesus, Mother Mary, Dominoes and biscuits!

CAPTAIN CAVEMAN 11-16-2009 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 768328)
Music superiority is specifically limited to human perspective.

hahahahaha


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