What's a nice song?

[Ouled Nails]

Forget the organ, the rock and roll band, the concerto, the opera!

Keep it simple!

What's a nice song? Examples??

 

[Muza]

my one and only love by sting love it!

 

[rojo]

Nice songs about youth-

Debussy - Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse

Nice songs about trees-

Schubert - Der Lindenbaum
R. Schumann - Der Nussbaum

 

[some guy]

The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, of course. (I thought everyone knew this!:grin

 

[Andrew Roussak]

The lowest trees have tops - John Dowland , app. 1595

 

[Mat]

I think 4′33″ by John Cage is great...

 

[Ouled Nails]

I think 4′33″ by John Cage is great...

Do you mean silence is a beautiful song?
Or a beautiful song plays in your mind when everything is silent?
:grin:

 

[Mat]

Ya know, I just like the concept itself. Four and a half minutes of silence... I've dreamt of this invention. You put your earphones in your ears, turn on the player and suddenly all noises disappear. And the only thing you can hear is silence. Imagine, you're in the middle of crowded street with this little invention. And you can isolate from the "outside world" simply by pressing the button on your player. Wouldn't that be great?:grin:


Cheers,
Mat

 

[Andrew Roussak]

Ya know, I just like the concept itself. Four and a half minutes of silence... I've dreamt of this invention. You put your earphones in your ears, turn on the player and suddenly all noises disappear. And the only thing you can hear is silence. Imagine, you're in the middle of crowded street with this little invention. And you can isolate from the "outside world" simply by pressing the button on your player. Wouldn't that be great?:grin:


Cheers,
Mat

But , if I got it technically right, you will still hear the sounds of the crowded street instead of silence? Which type of earphones exactly do you use? grin::grin::grin...

 

[some guy]

Cage's concept, though, was to open up music to include all sounds. The idea of 4'33" and others was to include sounds that the composer did not intend, not to exclude all sounds. Indeed, Cage did not like the whole portable sound system business because it isolates the listener from the world.

 

[Mat]

This whole 'silence invention' thing is just my pure fantasy, has not much to do with Cage's intentions, which I'm aware of. 4'33" is not all about silence, of course, as some guy was kind to observe, but it also deals with sounds that 'surround' the performance.

 

[Contratrombone64]

nice song?

The Vegemite Song.