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Classical Music Is The First And Best Type Of Music.
Classical music in its most purest form is the best type of music because of its depth and beauty. All other types of music are secondary (e.g., rap, jazz, gospel, rock, heavy metal, R&B). To like rap etc. Is to be limited in thinking and logic. Only classical music incites thought.
 Tepal  10 Jun 2008 04:21
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My mother said she use to put classical music on her belly for an hour before i was born. I thank her for that ever time i sit and play the piano, i played ever since i could sit up stright. And i think that had something to do with listing to it in the womb
 
 toni  06 Dec 2009 06:18
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Yes.

Classical music, is so beautifully structured, and perfection for the ears.
 
 Scorpion  25 Jul 2008 03:57
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Whether you prefer classical music or more trendy, folk rock punk country or heavy metal to list just a few, Classical music is much more diverse and technically far superior.
 
 keepmindok  16 Jul 2008 12:18
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It is so scary to see how many non-music theory debators are on this website. To even say heavy metal and classical music in the same breathe is horrifying! The fact that Bach and Beethoven is what many consider to be the only FORM of classical music out there proves the lack of knowledge about the subject. The term 'classical' has many deeper reasons than what most can realize and/or understand. I was hoping for a higher level of debate not someone looking for a way to discuss non-music like heavy metal or rap....It is important to understand music and how it relates to communication....History books are a good resource. For this...I thought everyone took that class at least....Now don't run too fast to the library to look up the subject..
 
 Tepal  12 Jun 2008 03:27
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 If you think heavy metal isn't music you don't know anything about heavy metal. I'm a metalhead but I love classical music, and I'm a classical musician for pity's sake. Metal and classical go perfectly together! Beethoven was totally metal! Look at Yngwie Malmsteen, I hate the guy but he's a freakin' classical musician! Also, watch this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=AY7p6EIWavc for more proof that metal and classical go perfectly together.
by  Mark
 12 Jun 2008 22:50
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I think classical music provides probably the finest recorded examples of music we have, at least within the Western tradition. Clearly it wasn't the first music, however, in the sense that music existed even in ancient times.

Just because it was the best, though, doesn't mean we should listen to it exclusively, staying trapped in a misty nostalgia. Shakespeare has been the best poet in English for hundreds of years. It doesn't mean that other poets should either throw away their pens or attempt to imitate his style.

The rhythms of life evolve. We have things that weren't present in Shakespeare or Beethoven's time : Combustion engines and machine guns and jet aircraft. These alter our perception of rhythm, forcing language and music to change in order to keep up.

However good classical music was, we can't ignore the fact that it evolved into nothingness, the monstrosity of modernism. The tradition failed. Continuing the tradition isn't really an option for us, since to do so would only be pastiche. We need to invent a new music and hope that one day it will attain the depth and subtlety of the German classical music.
 
 Hidell  11 Jun 2008 09:18
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All of music stems from classical, it's the father of all music.
 
 Custommade  10 Jun 2008 19:10
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 Rock doesn't stem from classical. It stems from folk music and African drums.
by  OzzieMan
 10 Jun 2008 19:11
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Yessss !!! Everything else is just noise and laments, as far as I am concerned.
Trying to compare Hip hop to Bach's Musical Offering is like a comparison between a Pogo and caviar !
 
 Garamond  10 Jun 2008 12:51
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Classical music is so bad it made beethoven lose his hearing back that up!!!
 
 planb5683  10 Nov 2009 14:39
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 i told you bichs
by  planb5683
 10 Nov 2009 14:40
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God ihate classical music so MUCH!!!!! Chuck some bullet for my valentine in there heads then we will see who is screeming suck on it losers
 
 hazza  27 Oct 2009 11:26
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Classical music is very beautiful and I like listening to it...but it's not the first (look at Grenache's response) or the best. I'd rather listen to ragtime/jazz.
 
 bookworm3  29 Nov 2008 23:47
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WHO SAID?? First? Nope. It's same as other genres..
 
 rere  15 Jul 2008 04:17
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First and Best? NO. Indian, Asian, and other world cultures predated what you call Classical and most have note scales larger and instruments more diverse than you'll find in Western Classical music. And even in the Western cultures from where Classical sprang there was music the tribes played whether it be Celtic or other. And in a real sense, blues, jazz, rock, hiphop are all truer in their genesis in comparison to the earlies music than your clinically sterilyzed Classical music.

This isn't to say I hate Classical and don't respect it, but it's to say Classical fans are wrong to look down on forms of music other than their own.
 
 Grenache  29 Jun 2008 15:04
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A couple of years ago, the band Yes played in my city, with our symphony. Rehearsals were slow because the Symphony musicians kept interrupting the Yes members to autograph the Symphony members' old Yes albums...

I personally think Bach would have loved Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree.
 
 OzzieMan  10 Jun 2008 19:02
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 Bach and Pink Floyd are possibly my absolute favorites. We should stick in also Beethoven+Any good metal band.
by  Mark
 10 Jun 2008 19:05
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You sound like a redneck, except the bumper sticker on your BMW (instead of a pickup truck) says, "If it ain't classical, it ain't ****!"

Anyone who doesn't appreciate all styles of music (i.e. You) doesn't appreciate music, period.

And as far as "first music", you are clearly and utterly ignorant of Baroque which precedes it by centuries.
 
 K9  10 Jun 2008 17:17
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The Medieval music period was the first, but I believe that modern music has always been improving and has been the best for a long time.
 
 gogo303ng  10 Jun 2008 11:18
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I don't know how you came to the conclusion that classical music was the first type of music. Other types of music predate classical. Other types of music can elicit thought. To restrict one's taste to a single genre is dull and demonstrates a limited mind. I agree that some types of music seem like nothing more than noise, but even they require thought tp produce.
 
 norefturn  10 Jun 2008 10:07
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Although Classical music is the first music that has ever been recorded, whether it's the"best" type of music of music of not is strictly based on a personal opinion. Some people think that their own favorite types of music are the best, and that's how it will continue. There is no "best" type of music is art and differ with people's tastes.

*Side Note* There have been several instances where the effects of classical music has been researched, for example, the Mozart effect (Google it if you do not know). The Mozart effect was said to temporarily increase mental abilities.
 
 suppish  10 Jun 2008 05:40
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There is no doubt about it - classical music was the first type of recorded music. But, because music is such a subjective art form, it is frivolous to argue the "best" genre of it. I don't think classical is superior to other types, despite being a die-hard orchestra musician. I am deeply challenged by newer, "hipper" styles of music, sometimes more so than classical.
 
 hurleyjoe  10 Jun 2008 05:16
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