How do I start listening to classical music?

Start with your favorite music, I recommend some:

Baroque era:

Bach - Aria on the G string, Violin Concerto, Brandenburg Concerto

Vivaldi - Violin Concerto The Four Seasons

Classicalism:

Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Heroes, Symphony No. 5 in c minor, Fate, Violin Concerto in D major, Piano Sonata No. 14 in ascending c minor, Moonlight, Dedication to Alice

Classicalism:

Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Heroes, Symphony No. 5 in c minor, Piano Sonata No. 14 in ascending c minor, Moonlight. Symphony "Destiny", Violin Concerto in D major, Piano Sonata No. 14 in c minor ascending "Moonlight", Dedicated to Alice

Mozart- Opera "The Marriage of Figaro", Turkish March, Serenade for Strings in G major, Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, Symphony No. 40 (set to the Roots of Not Wanting to Grow Up soundtrack by S.H.E.), Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Ballade of Flowers

< p>Haydn- Symphony No. 45 in F minor, Farewell, Cello Concerto in C major

Romanticism:

Chopin- Magnifica Grande Ballade, Nocturne in E-flat Major, Nocturne in F-flat Major, Nocturne in B-flat Minor, Nocturne in A-flat Major, Etudes in C Minor, Revolutions, Polonaise in A-flat Major, The Heroes

Mendelssohn- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ride the Wings of Song, Violin Concerto in E minor

Schubert - Serenade, Wild Rose, Ave Maria

Wagner - Wedding March (you wouldn't be unaware of it ......), Opera Valkyrie

Post-Romanticism:

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor Destiny, the dance drama Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet

Johann Strauss Jr. - Blue Danube Waltz, Waltz of Spring, Waltz of the Southern Rose

Bizet - Opera Carmen

If you are of the right age, and if you are interested in it, you can learn to play the violin, cello, trumpet, piano or something else, so you will have a lot more depth. It's the best thing for a girl to play the violin.

In fact, the feeling of listening to classical music is different for everyone.

I like Bach's unaccompanied violin sonatas and suites very much, and my friend said that it was noise (just kidding, he actually likes classical music very much).

So don't worry about what other people say, and don't worry about the higher artistic achievement - all you should care about is your own love of music. If you care too much about the academic stuff, it will affect your listening experience.

Backing up, what is it about the great musicians that have left so many classics?

Is it for future generations to study?

I guess the biggest point isn't that (not against the study of music theory, of course), but rather that it should allow us to be able to share this beauty with them.

So don't care what the authorities say - because your love of classical music is the greatest comfort to those late giants.

Getting back to the point

First, look up information about the authors and learn about them. Then divide the symphony into parts and enjoy them in sections. Listen to what instruments are used in each part and finally write down your feelings. You can also find a friend or a teacher to share your opinion with.

In fact, I'm not a professional in music, I just like to appreciate it, and I suggest you start with the Strauss Family Dances! The Strauss family's tunes are relatively simple, neither as rigorous as those of the classical era, nor as complex as Shostakovich's and theirs. Of course, my favorite is still Baroque music, especially Bach's organ pieces, and Vivaldi's concertos, I feel that they are the ones who say the true meaning of life, but these pieces are more rigorous and not easy to accept at first.

As for books, I don't think they're necessary if you don't want to be a professional, just as you don't have to read grammar books if you don't want to specialize in English linguistics. The main thing is to appreciate it, and I've had the feeling that sometimes I'll think back to a piece I heard a few years ago and suddenly I'll understand it all, when no amount of thinking would have helped.

How do you appreciate a symphony?

Some people think that symphonic music is unattainable and incomprehensible. However, like an article, it has its own depths, and as long as you know how to appreciate it, it's not difficult to get started. Because it reflects and describes the human life and human thoughts and feelings, ordinary people, into the door, you can not understand to understand, from the knowledge of the depth of the gradual improvement. Of course in the appreciation of the more profound symphony, need to have a certain, corresponding life experience and high cultural level, "must be supplemented by their own experience, impressions and accumulation of knowledge."

The following is an introduction to several different kinds of symphonic music, briefly talk about the method of appreciation:

There is a class of symphonic music called "sound and picture", to depict the natural world and the scenery of life as the main content, relatively easy to understand. Such as the Russian composer Mosolsky's "pictures in the exhibition", Borodin's "steppes of Central Asia", the German composer Beethoven's "Symphony of Fields", the French composer Debussy, founder of the Impressionist school of music, "the sea", can be said to be the works of this type. Listening to the "sea" music, the listener, such as in the coast of the sea, from dawn to noon, to appreciate the sea of color, light, sound, shape of the changes, sometimes feel the wind, sometimes it is a refusal of the waves beat the shore, sometimes it is the waves floating, and sometimes it is the waves splash, it is really ever-changing. Appreciate these works, coupled with rich imagination, invisible, can get the conceptual association - how beautiful nature, life is interesting, everything grows endlessly.

There is a category of symphonic music called "dance music", which has a strong national style, shorter pieces, simpler feelings, and clearer melodies, mostly depicting customary festivals and joyful activities, characterized by singing and dancing. There are also pieces cut from the dance drama to become a separate instrumental music. Such symphonic dance music, easy to understand, quickly popularized, such as the Austrian John Strauss's more than four hundred round dance, the French Ravel's "Bolero", Czech composer Dvorak's "Slavonic Dance", Germany Brahms's "Hungarian Dance", China's composers of the "Yao Dance," and so on, all belong to the symphonic dance music.

In the symphonic music, there is a class of storyline, generally have a title or a sub-title for each movement. Most of these pieces are taken from familiar and widely circulated plays, poems, legends, myths, novels, stories, etc., such as Russia's Rimkiki Kausakov's "Nights in the Sky" (Suite), which is taken from the Arabian mythological novel, "One Thousand and One Nights"; France's Bizet's "Carmen Suite" is based on the music clip of the opera of the same name; China's He Zhanhao and Chen Gang's "Liang Zhu Zhu Violin Concerto" is based on The "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is based on the folk tale of "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai".

These pieces of music, not like drama, literature, poetry, opera, film, television, as visually and linguistically provide the appreciator with specific characters or plots, but to play the function of music, to express the character's detailed inner feelings as the main means, so that the listener from the heart to feel. If the appreciator understands in advance what it depicts, when listening to the music, with the sound, the mind will be imagined, it will enter the specific mood prescribed by the music, causing emotional **** song.

In the symphony, there is a class of no storyline, and does not describe the scenery, but it is through the means of music, reflecting people's very delicate, rich, varied emotional ups and downs. This kind of music has no title (there is a title is only a few words), reflecting a particular society, people's views on society and hope. Such as Beethoven's "Heroes", "Destiny", "Chorus" symphony, Tchaikovsky's "Fifth", "Pathos" symphony and so on.

Appreciate this kind of symphony, the listener must have an understanding of the composer's era, environment, experience, encounter, life and so on, and at the same time to understand his motives for writing this song, as well as the basic content of the music (it is best to understand some of the musical forms and techniques, etc.). In this way, when listening to music, the listener will be able to follow the ups and downs of the feelings of the piece, and get a signal in his heart, along with the music of music and music, sadness and sadness, indignation and indignation, and transformed into philosophical concepts. Of course, to get this step, you need to have certain cultural knowledge and life experience. Such as Beethoven's (1770 - 1827) famous symphony "Destiny", it through Beethoven's own life of sweet and sour encounter, and linked to his fate at that time with the vast number of people **** breathing, express their own and the God of Destiny to fight the will. It reflected the people's demand for freedom and equality and the idea of liberating humanity. Beethoven wrote this piece (38 years old), is the bourgeoisie and the feudal system for the fight to the death. What the symphony of "Destiny" shows, sometimes turbulent, sometimes meditative, sometimes gathering strength, sometimes fierce struggle, sometimes striding forward, sometimes cheering for victory, is to express his firm will, tenacious struggle, ardent hope.

In the appreciation of symphonic music, if the appreciator at the same time with some basic knowledge of music, such as the body, modulation, theme changes and hair people, orchestration, performance methods, tonal color contrast, etc., then, you can get richer knowledge and enjoyment of beauty.

1 Adjustment of mentality when appreciating symphonic music

The appreciation of symphonic music requires a suitable psychological environment. As we can see, many people appreciate symphonies without good psychological preparation, and always feel out of tune with the music without much gain, which is the result of not adjusting the mentality.

First of all, the appreciation of symphonic music is mainly carried out by the auditory system, so it needs a "static" internal and external environment. Whether you are going to a concert or listening to music, you need to enjoy it carefully and quietly, and although your emotions are fluctuating with the mood of the music, you can't shout out for a particular line or point like you would with pop music or comedy. Your auditory system should remain somewhat excited and focused on the music. Some people read a book, or listen to music while doing something, and some even do other things while attending a concert, and these are especially detrimental to the enjoyment of symphonic music, which requires concentration on the fine details and especially the whole. Many symphonies even require us to listen to several movements in one breath before we know what it means. Without a mindset conducive to the appreciation of symphonies, the quality of appreciation is bound to be affected.

Secondly, when appreciating symphonic music, we should not be too rational. Some people always think that after appreciating symphonic music, they should be enlightened and gained like appreciating a novel or a movie, but the result is often the opposite. Appreciation of music, especially symphony, music expressed by the content is highly abstract, absolutely can not be a sentence must be said to be flowers, a paragraph must be said to be grass, here is the sun, there is the moon, appreciate the symphony of the process is a physical and mental consumption process, after enjoying a symphony should be more tired, in the emotional emotional feelings, experience tends to be more, and this should also be the most important! The emotional and affective feelings, experiences tend to be higher, and this should be the most important. If very rational to analyze what the writer wants to say here and there, or how this orchestra plays, how that orchestra plays, on the contrary, it will affect the understanding of the music to the writer. Successful appreciation should be a tribute to the composer, to the beauty of the music and nothing else.

2 grasp of musical images in music appreciation

Both traditional symphonies and modern symphonies, most of them have one or more major musical images. The main musical image in most cases will appear several times in the music. The main musical image is generally characterized, either melodically, rhythmically, in harmonic sequences or chordal unfoldings, or by some characteristic instrument. In symphonic music, after the introduction, the musical image is generally to appear, it is either repeated as it is or changed to repeat, when undergoing a large evolutionary process, often to enter the stage of repeating as it is, in the final part of the ending, the image will be many times to "flash". In the appreciation of symphonic music, pay attention to identify these images, grasp its emotional characteristics, the understanding of the music will be very easy.