Easy Guide to Appreciating Classical Music | Lifehacker

Jumping into the world of classical music can be overwhelming, given the near 6-centuries-worth of music available. Nick Douglas shows you where to start.
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[@rooftopkorean6995]

Start anywhere, the only thing you'll regret is not starting earlier than before

[@marianacarina2580]

That's so true omg

[@xetchrono2034]

Listen to Masashi Hamauzu kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5DRqKSefbh5j6M

[@eatsaaas3463]

I started when I was 15 lmao

[@justwalkinit]

♥️

[@24089536]

That's totally true. One of the things I regret all the time

[@BowarePL]

Well I AM into gregorian chants!

[@sanriodeppressionthermos8602]

Ah, finally, someone who understands what REAL art is.

[@jakehouston3377]

Me also, coming from someone from Northern Ireland, who would of thought lol!

[@aaaaaaaaaaa8240]

I dont know why people call jazz old when I go here

[@kitana5583]

SAME

[@guntherss2672]

You me both brother

[@5oulPower]

I thought classical music was boring when I was first introduced to it. I couldn’t wrap my head around Bach, found Mozart and Beethoven boring. Those were the 3 usual names you were introduced to and so I wrote off classical music as boring.. until I heard Debussy, Ravel, Albeniz, Satie and Stravinsky. I think people should give later period composers more credit when introducing classical music to others.

[@belaorhideja4020]

I completely agree.I’ve been playing piano since I was 12 and I always prefered playing music of Romantic and impressionism period, then classical one

[@crazymangoz9583]

And might I add Strauß II to the list!

[@magnusemeritus]

Beethoven and boring in the same sentence does not compute!! It is the soundtrack of my soul!

[@PeteFredrickson]

Romantic is my favorite of the "classical"/art music periods. It tends to be more expressive than the earlier periods but still has melodies and harmonies that make sense to the ear unlike some of the stuff that came after.

[@EctoMorpheus]

@@crazymangoz9583 I'm only here because I just discovered Strauß, damn he has some bangers

[@tabbathaskye9661]

I was always fascinated with classical when I was a kid but I never listened to it much cause my family would bully me about listening to “boring music” my family listened to loud blasting rap/latin music. I couldn’t stand it. But when I was alone in the car, I would turn it to our local classical radio station while they went into the shops. It gave me a piece of mind with my loud family of 4 others. My family always found me weird cause of it. But now that I am about to be 25, I could care less about what anyone says about it. My boyfriend really loves how I listen to it. And he doesn’t mind it, he likes it actually ❤️ I bought us tickets to an nice orchestra a couple times and we dressed up and I felt so alive. Being able to sit there and let the music take you away from the world. ❤️ it has so much feeling to it. I thought it was time that I finally understand true classical to immerse myself more into it. ❤️ thank you ❤️

[@Viper-uk6qv]

The most 'cool' and 'hardcore' way to go about living your life is just being yourself, when no one else wants you to.

[@dasarathyr.8355]

What's funny is even the modern genres are based on classical music, the evolution of music theory and instruments that it drove. Some day perhaps you can tell them that!

[@Butterflymoonie]

What a beautiful experience to be in an orchestra❤ so happy for you I’m 18 years old and I’d love to hear classical music live in an orchestra one day

[@calebrands4912]

The thing about classical music is that it's not like Mozart and Beethoven are releasing their new album.

[@xetchrono2034]

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[@karimd88]

Doesn’t that quite speak for itself?

[@cringecentral_]

⁠@@misterrobato2937that’s a bad argument because you’re ignoring the context of their existence. These classical works laid the groundwork for literally all of western music. That’s why they’ve stood the test of time, because they are the reason we have the music in the first place. If you’re a fan of basketball you know who George Mikan is not because he’s the best, but because he helped lay the groundwork for what became our stars today, much like with music fans(who are much more prevalent than basketball fans) still knowing who Bach or Mozart is. Another thing to add, even if people recognize the name of the composers or the way the music sounds, a majority of them wouldn’t be able to listen to it and go “Oh, that’s by Verdi” or “Ah yes, his 14th symphony”

[@user-cq9uk5tv8p]

chopin = musician op 9 = 9th catalogue no 2 = 2nd movement nocturne = gener e flat = key on which the music is based mediaeval, baroque, classical, romantic, modern musicians • johan sabastian bach

[@eyuin5716]

You forgot Renaissance

[@davikersulks9525]

@@eyuin5716 actually no one cares about renaissance xd

[@bobdamuffingamer7783]

@@davikersulks9525 I do care about renaissance

[@davikersulks9525]

@@bobdamuffingamer7783 i was really stoopid 4 months ago ranaissance is cool AF

[@mckennalynn1916]

Thank you so much 👍🏻

[@BoriZ]

Can you make further videos on the other periods?

[@existentialbaby]

thank you so much guys i am from a middle class family in a dusty little town in india..thank you for making this video.. i have already discovered bach, liszt, vivaldi. pachelbel

[@hongkijeremy5236]

Try Chopin, Paganini, Tchaikovsky, and Hayden

[@Mayur_]

Where are you from brother

[@bobthabuilda1525]

Bach is my fav

[@ren7056]

same about the dusty little town thing✋I'm from India too

[@mayankprajapat4591]

Hey indian, please explore shoshtokovich

[@KennyBentley7]

Actually, regarding Opus numbers, those started in the late classical to early romantic era Baroque and early classical composers were given their own catalog initials. Handel's is HWV, for another example.

[@tudormiller887]

My first exposure to Classical Music was listening to Mozart on cassette tape on my Sony Walkman growing up in the 80s. ❤

[@SandroIvoBartoliofficial]

What a great series! Congratulations!

[@WoundedSilence]

This was really helpful, tanks

[@stephengoh5456]

Awesome! Love it. Thank you.

[@ryanimpink13]

Amazing video. Thank you!

[@thecupitor]

Great list ❤

[@juanjosefloresfenieux7130]

Thanks I really needed this!

[@willlexie]

TWOSET VIOLIN BROUGHT ME HERE

[@franziskaseger9179]

Excellent explained,,thank you

[@mikereiss4216]

I liked seeing the Italian prog rock in the center (Area and Banco) at 0:38. Banco actually had an excellent instrumental album that was a combination of rock, jazz and classical called di terra.

[@raizelviashborn5826]

thanks for the playlist I needed that ^^

[@musicfan6575]

When I prepare a Big Dinner, This type of music helps me put all of the ingredients, cooking times ect. in a orderly manner.

[@ronniemacsween6977]

Thank you so much. I am 68 years old, an i fell in love with classical music 3 days ago. Have you got any more info on the basic history, who when, where, an his style. Thanks again, an God Bless you!

[@michaelwu7678]

Yo where my Renaissance boys at?!

[@ivanelliotart]

bro, they long dead

[@remkovanbaarlen872]

Well done! Thanks so much

[@CharlieFortuneCookie]

I love fugues and Little Fugue is one of my favorites

[@camillavalenzuela4447]

Amazing video!

[@Beesknees923]

Thank you. ❤

[@jaybird404]

Nice video but I think you’re off just a bit in your description of nomenclature in the Chopin example. Opus is often a GROUP of works with what follows being the individual work within that group. The next, more granular level down, would be the movement within that work. For example, Beethoven’s Op. 18 contains his first 6 String Quartets. Each Quartet is then noted by the musical key it that it was written around. Each piece (a string quartet in this case) is made up of multiple movements. Each movement is usually described by its tempo. So.....Beethoven Op. 18, String Quartet #1 in F Major, has four movements. The second movement (typically performed in about 8 and a half minutes) is an Adagio, or in plain-talk, a slow movement.

[@lampoyo]

In any case, his video is the easy explanation, which I am not going to have to pass a test with. One day, I hope to understand what you are saying above. ;)

[@yajy4501]

The hardest struggle for me was learning to read the long @ss track titles. Haha Pop music really simplifies things with one or two word titles. For most of my life I thought classical music was interesting but I never really took the time to truly appreciate it. Then one day I heard a piece that just captivated my attention and I couldn’t go back lol

[@mariareginaa_]

Can you make more of this??

[@KelvinSarrz]

i agree!!

[@MrWhtgst]

I listen to metal and punk rock and enjoy the finer 80's and 90's pop. I love prog rock I just heard Vivaldi summer (storm) that was fire I think it is time for me to start exploring what composers should I check out considering the genres I like.

[@timm6892]

For me, starting with the piano sonatas made things easy. Maybe because piano sonatas are what I am/was mainly interested in, but it was easy to get a taste of what each composer was like, just based off of piano works. I think it can be a little more approachable than symphonies, anyway.

[@ild4099]

0:39 I can't believe this guy is listening to the band Porcupine Tree. You can see their album In Abstenia but it's a little blurred

[@IhaMagazine]

Also spotted Arctic Monkeys' AM

[@brooford]

Also some Aphrodite’s Child, Area, Brand X, Caravan, and Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. Good taste!

[@patricklewis9787]

I don’t know if prog got me into classical but it definitely primed me for it

[@rufikunbargi9407]

Thank you.

[@carloszetina9532]

Dying Fetus is a very easy listening for noobs out there.

[@dsaasd2632]

what about torsofuck

[@belzebubs4268]

Nah bro that's too much, they should start with *Extermination Dissmemberment*

[@knifegun1064]

Kingpin preparing his food while listening to classical is what bought me here

[@bobdamuffingamer7783]

Stuff like fuges, operas, cantatas, ovetures, concertos, sonatas, duets, piano trios, etc are like the genres of classical music. In my opinion calssical music is not a genre, nor the periods. and each of those genres have their own phases, styles, structures, instrumentation and themes, just as modern music would be divided into genres for the same reasons. Like an overture, which were different depending on the region and period. A baorque overture in the french style would be different to the baroque overture in italian style. the classical overtures that can be hear (or atleast from the classical overtures I have heard) have similarities to the italian styled overtures of the baroque period but have their own flare. Romantic music is another great example of those differences in styles depending on the regions where it was written thanks to a high sense of nationalism.

[@JennReff]

I enjoy Gregorian chants too.

[@yidy1]

So you explained Fugues, but what about the rest of the styles? Great video, BTW.

[@ANDROLOMA]

The greats are great indeed, but Mozart was astounding.

[@klscott95]

So is a cataloged work number (e.g. "Op. 9") like an album? Like is the composer intending that you listen to the pieces in a cataloged work in sequential order similar to how someone would listen to the songs in an album? Or is each classical "song" just listened to on it's own?

[@dale356bc]

A+

[@kanelbullenochkakan3118]

2:33 Also the ancient and reinassance eras exist

[@decluesviews2740]

I am into Gregorian Chant 😁

[@sasufreqchann]

Op = Overpowered

[@Howlox]

"Aspiring music nerd, Lifehacker". Good to know I'm being thought by professsionals

[@allofscrubs]

what was the last piece called i remember playing it in 5th grade lol

[@NinosKoussa]

I don't know what it is, maybe it starts great but then I felt the rest of the explanation went a bit too fast? I feel like I'm a bit confused still, I wish if I can watch a longer version of this video. But I'm glad you explained the (op.) number and (no.) I was specifically searching for this and stumbled upon this video, but now I wanna know more. Your fault

[@hongkijeremy5236]

Hello to my 18-19th century friends! Let's see each other at the Saloon later

[@AliOssol]

Is la réjouissance playing in the background?

[@existentialbaby]

2:38 I YAM INTO GREGORIAN CHANTS!

[@Kulturensohn]

Would people from the past enjoy modern music with newer structures?

[@alexanderkardasis3392]

Leonin , perotin , guillaume de machaut , thomas tallis , giovanni pierluigi da palestrina , claudio monteverdi , antonio vivaldi , jean baptiste lully , jean philippe rameau , georg philipp telemann , all of this are composers well before bach's age who contributed to classical music as we know it today , also did he seriously mix together the midieval ars antiqua and ans nova musical periods with the musical renesaince?

[@West-Telecom]

To read and then add frim the wiki is easy…

[@Felishamois]

Ok, "Medieval [&Renaissance]" music heads up kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp7Vd6mmZt2CmqM Calm and melancholic kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnO1m4yHaJJ0baM Don't be afraid to skip to 2/3ds to get blown away kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJa8aJubd9t4Y7M Joyous, the og of Disney's magical castle trumpets More to come tomorrow, once you've listened to those three

[@elenavash.5749]

What piece is playing at 3:02?

[@giuseppefratto8788]

Bach cello suite no. 1 in G major (prelude)

[@unnecessaryrandomvideos3956]

Can please anyone tell me what is the name of this piece 2:43? Not 'The Piano Guys' alright.

[@glowball7221]

Bach cello suite no.1

[@xetchrono2034]

Listen to Masashi Hamauzu

[@manhhieu252]

I do not even have a change to listen to a live Classic Music Performent :'(

[@Akashsama]

2:13 Pachelbel's Canon in D Major

[@ankushmenat]

Akash-sama probably the most overplayed classics

[@Akashsama]

True. But overplayed or not, it's still very beautiful.

[@michaelwu7678]

Very beautiful piece but there are many better and worthier pieces out there (imo). What is most popular is very rarely what speaks to each of us most individually and deeply.

[@misteryu5879]

@@michaelwu7678 Can you give me some names please , im trying this new music style and im lost ,i dont know where to start.

[@michaelwu7678]

@@misteryu5879 That's a very good place to start, I mean not knowing what it's all about. I think first you need to ask yourself what music and art in general is for. You can only start appreciating classical music once you are ready to understand music outside of immediate emotional gratification. Maybe start with the Concertos or the Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach or the String Quartets/Quintets by Mozart.

[@chocolatefudge5263]

I love Chopin. Which other artists could i like?

[@xZyrux]

Try: Debussy - Arabesque Respighi - Notturno for piano Schumann - Waldszenen Mozart Piano Concerto No.17 :))

[@chocolatefudge5263]

@@xZyrux thank you so much!

[@chocolatefudge5263]

@@xZyrux ive just visited quickly on your channel. I like future house music love me right. Maybe you'd like dj Tatana pink punk.

[@xZyrux]

@@chocolatefudge5263 did you check some of those out? If yes, which did you like?

[@chocolatefudge5263]

@@xZyrux just the two first. I love them. I look forward to hearing the others. I dont have a preference yet. Have you listened to dj tatana?

[@AllRuzziansAreCunts]

Lets listen classical music while it's not cancelled

[@AjuVignesh]

2:38 What is the name of this piece of music?

[@existentialbaby]

i want to know that too

[@thekingshussar1808]

Medieval music has also secular music and instrumental dances....

[@Angel-jl7zv]

I like epic orchestra music like you may hear in movies

[@xZyrux]

Try: Bruckner - Symphony 7 Wagner - Tannhäuser Ouverture

[@52vepr]

Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, (Organ Symphony) by Camille Saint-Saëns.

[@ensaladadepapaya8511]

Beethoven 7th second movement

[@tingless]

hi section valenzuela

[@overseer5060]

Watch original tom and jerrey

[@maximiliangockel]

Audio quality is completely ruined by the weird panning of the voice. WHY?

[@plekkchand]

1:35 ."second movement in that work"? Not right. Please correct this.

[@Howlox]

Can you explain the correct way?

[@andytan1430]

The thing is I don't own a piano , but a guitar 😂😂😂😂😂

[@khinthan2923]

Another step: Watch Twoset violin.

[@wanmanda]

I’m more lost than when I started

[@angermanager2116]

You bet I'm into Gregorian Chants. That shit makes my hair stand on end.

[@gregslawson5784]

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[@392023001]

Medieval and modern? How do you the names of these periods wrong.

[@mattbrownruns]

May you rewrite this video using more complex terminology to describe the pieces?

[@PieczykM]

Bad rep? Where?

[@sanriodeppressionthermos8602]

A girl in my class:"i hate classical music. There are no words. Why is it all in italian?"

[@existentialbaby]

@@sanriodeppressionthermos8602 haahaa

[@taryllhanchard3978]

why you gotta make me think my headphones broke

[@mdjey2]

Skipping Medieval music is exactly what makes it boring. When you try to disregard certain music because it doesn't fit with the sound or mood.

[@rubbr8577]

The way he said baroque triggered me so much lol

[@mrsgingernoisette]

Renaissance is left for Beyonce LOL

[@ikGREENY]

Wagner is the answer to that question.

[@zuken1881]

.

[@albertorocha9014]

WHAT IN THE FUCKING FUCK! This was the only period you made about?

[@weggygaygay9940]

>comparing kanye to madonna holy fuck who wrote this that thought that would be a good analogy

[@owllegs5889]

Sorry, but it's irresponsible to pretend that innovations in polyphony and the development of both the broken and full consort (preceding the chamber orchestra of the baroque period) during the renaissance don't constitute their own period distinct from the gregorian chants of mediaeval music.

[@juilescieg]

chopin, the only classical musician, that is nice and comforting to listen to.

[@tj-co9go]

Obviously Wagner

[@Teisha2112]

F kanye!

[@FransceneJK98]

Verdi wrote better operas by far!! How do people not know anything bout opera? People love to stay ignorant

[@FransceneJK98]

@Michael Lochlann agreed. I honestly prefer male vocals over females. La traviata is sung so much better by legends like Pavarotti than any female

[@yashagrawal88]

The video is 'only' about European classical music ! Change the title !

[@West-Telecom]

This’s an academic music

[@chocolatefudge5263]

Bach is definitely not my style. Might be almost perfect technically but doesn't move me at all. And the baroque piano sound annoys me.

[@CaioDuayer]

Well done youtube surfer, here it is, you've found the most white video ever

[@marcelacevallos9858]

Caio Duayer shut up

[@user-ml1dl8zv2j]

Lmao

[@viggos.n.5864]

@The Cma how is it posh? Its the only musicform which is an artform

[@xetchrono2034]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5DRqKSefbh5j6M

[@gracenova]

using this to memorize certain vocab for the ap music theory test 🥲

[@user-bg8ku3en3n]

I was always fascinated with classical when I was a kid but I never listened to it much cause my family would bully me about listening to “boring music” my family listened to loud blasting rap/latin music. I couldn’t stand it. But when I was alone in the car, I would turn it to our local classical radio station while they went into the shops. It gave me a piece of mind with my loud family of 4 others. My family always found me weird cause of it. But now that I am about to be 25, I could care less about what anyone says about it. My boyfriend really loves how I listen to it. And he doesn’t mind it, he likes it actually ️ I bought us tickets to an nice orchestra a couple times and we dressed up and I felt so alive. Being able to sit there and let the music take you away from the world. ️ it has so much feeling to it. I thought it was time that I finally understand true classical to immerse myself more into it. ️ thank you ️

[@user-ib4zp7zy6c]

When I prepare a Big Dinner, This type of music helps me put all of the ingredients, cooking times ect. in a orderly manner.