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Apple Acquires Classical Music Service Primephonic, Will Launch Dedicated Classical Music App
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The codex they used is from 900AD. My guess is that we’re talking about 900-1300AD depending on the intonations and such.
wait, classical in spatial audio?!!?
first thing after work today is to listen to Ride of the Valkyries (Apocalypse Now movie 1st I heard anything classical).
I’ll steal Allen’s joke. “I can’t listen to this stuff. Each time I listen to Wagner I feel compelled to invade Poland.”
The purist in me insists on noting that Allen in turn stole that joke from Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow."
I don't know who Pynchon stole it from.
There are a couple of minor characters who start arguing about who's better, Beethoven or Rossini -- and hundreds of pages later, they're still at it. It's the Rossini guy who makes the joke about Beethoven (not Wagner) making you want to go invade Poland.
From my own experience :
When I used to listen to music I had little to no interest in lyrics. I could really like a song but when I later on read the lyrics I didn’t think much of them or at worst didn’t like them at all. Lyrics were just part of the music.
Then I started listening to classical music (the “hits” first), and I tried to understand what it was all about.
So lyrics started to play a bigger role especially when listening to and later on going to opera. After a few years of preparing every opera (examining the lyrics to hook the notes to meaning) I was struggling with a Russian opera and letting it all go, I discovered that not preparing anything and just listening and letting the notes, instruments (including voices) work on their own, I started feeling in stead of understanding music.
So maybe for me I needed the stages I went through for me to truly enjoy music as I do now. I can now enjoy all genres of music of all cultures without prejudice or trying to understand it.
So you might have to take another route but I hope you achieve the music walhalla I am in
Thank you sharing your experience. I have started the journeyFrom my own experience :
When I used to listen to music I had little to no interest in lyrics. I could really like a song but when I later on read the lyrics I didn’t think much of them or at worst didn’t like them at all. Lyrics were just part of the music.
Then I started listening to classical music (the “hits” first), and I tried to understand what it was all about.
So lyrics started to play a bigger role especially when listening to and later on going to opera. After a few years of preparing every opera (examining the lyrics to hook the notes to meaning) I was struggling with a Russian opera and letting it all go, I discovered that not preparing anything and just listening and letting the notes, instruments (including voices) work on their own, I started feeling in stead of understanding music.
So maybe for me I needed the stages I went through for me to truly enjoy music as I do now. I can now enjoy all genres of music of all cultures without prejudice or trying to understand it.
So you might have to take another route but I hope you achieve the music walhalla I am in
My Dad was really into classical (and Jazz) music. But it never really connected with me until...
My Road to Damascus experience with classical happened whilst watching the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. There's a scene in which Bach's Goldberg Variations is playing in the background. I was gobsmacked by its beauty.
From there I discovered Bach's Partitas for keyboard - again utterly beautiful.
So, from a purely personal perspective I'd recommend listening to Bach's Goldberg variations - either the 1981 Glenn Gould recording or the later Angela Hewitt recording.
I'd also echo the earlier recommendation for Weill's The Threepenny Opera - but my favourite is the relatively recent Ute Lemper recording over the Lotte Lenya - which may be heretical
My Road to Damascus experience with classical happened whilst watching the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. There's a scene in which Bach's Goldberg Variations is playing in the background. I was gobsmacked by its beauty.
From there I discovered Bach's Partitas for keyboard - again utterly beautiful.
So, from a purely personal perspective I'd recommend listening to Bach's Goldberg variations - either the 1981 Glenn Gould recording or the later Angela Hewitt recording.
I'd also echo the earlier recommendation for Weill's The Threepenny Opera - but my favourite is the relatively recent Ute Lemper recording over the Lotte Lenya - which may be heretical
I picked up Satie from a movie called "My Dinner with Andre." Although I *think* there may have been some Satie at the end of "Being There."
Incidentally, if you want a really unusual example from the movies, "Frost/Nixon" includes Sonata No.1 from a composer named Richard M. Nixon.
The 1981 Glenn Gould recording of the Goldberg Variations was literally the first classical CD I ever bought, back when so few CDs were available yet that CBS had a poster for record stores showing all the CDs they made, all several dozen of them -- cover art and all.My Dad was really into classical (and Jazz) music. But it never really connected with me until...
My Road to Damascus experience with classical happened whilst watching the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. There's a scene in which Bach's Goldberg Variations is playing in the background. I was gobsmacked by its beauty.
From there I discovered Bach's Partitas for keyboard - again utterly beautiful.
So, from a purely personal perspective I'd recommend listening to Bach's Goldberg variations - either the 1981 Glenn Gould recording or the later Angela Hewitt recording.
I'd also echo the earlier recommendation for Weill's The Threepenny Opera - but my favourite is the relatively recent Ute Lemper recording over the Lotte Lenya - which may be heretical
That was when there *were* record stores.
Apple Music is lame in the way of features. It is well beyond time to be able to list and find the full name, conductor, orchestra, for a piece (known as song in Apple Music) of music. What can I say except, "It is about time."
Has anyone heard any updates on this? The only things I can say for sure is that Primephonic is dead and searching for classical music on the Music app still sucks as much as it always has.
Nope. I hoped for some news within the first half of the year.
June is almost over and still nothing. I guess Apple will either wait a somehow music related event (AirPods or similar device) to announce the new classical app or simply announce a press release.
June is almost over and still nothing. I guess Apple will either wait a somehow music related event (AirPods or similar device) to announce the new classical app or simply announce a press release.
Was hoping for an announcement or at least mention it during the keynote but nothing!
Agree! I don't think apple will imbed the metadata system from primephonic into the music app. But they really need to improve it...
I still tend to be a "music listener" rather than a "lyrics listener." Even at an opera, I usually have only a passing interest in the plot, and instead am focused on the music itself. There's enough going on that there are different ways of taking it all in, and that's fine.From my own experience :
When I used to listen to music I had little to no interest in lyrics. I could really like a song but when I later on read the lyrics I didn’t think much of them or at worst didn’t like them at all. Lyrics were just part of the music.
Then I started listening to classical music (the “hits” first), and I tried to understand what it was all about.
So lyrics started to play a bigger role especially when listening to and later on going to opera. After a few years of preparing every opera (examining the lyrics to hook the notes to meaning) I was struggling with a Russian opera and letting it all go, I discovered that not preparing anything and just listening and letting the notes, instruments (including voices) work on their own, I started feeling in stead of understanding music.
So maybe for me I needed the stages I went through for me to truly enjoy music as I do now. I can now enjoy all genres of music of all cultures without prejudice or trying to understand it.
So you might have to take another route but I hope you achieve the music walhalla I am in
(To be clear, I'm not trying to suggest that those who listen carefully for lyrics aren't also listening for the music.)
I would like this as well. The key for me, though, is whether it lets us add our "ripped" classical music that we already own (i.e., not from a service).