Modern speakers vs Vintage speakers
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I guess you spend time posting as much as possible during the day
Says the guy with 16k + posts...I guess you spend time posting as much as possible during the day
Obviously a victim of the non sequitar, etc.
If you're interested in learning, listen to piano concertos from, for example, Mozart and Beethoven. Then read about cadenzas.
I'd like to invite you to attend any classical symphonic performance the entire orchestra improvises their part throughout as the conductor cuts a rug.
Maybe an opera where the entire cast and pit go off the page. Making regietheater look tasteful.
As Thomas Quasthoff says "It's all Jazz." Classical during the majority period earth was rotating pre-conception of Jazz relied heavily on improvisation and intuition to be entertaining.
Sure, if you mean ornamentations -- if they are played -- that's one thing, but comparing that with jazz improvisations is a non sequitur (correct spelling, BTW).
Many or most cadenzas are written out. Beethoven wrote out his piano concerto cadenzas. Mozart did as well; he did leave the performers options, but his cadenzas are now considered canon. The Tchaikovsky violin concerto cadenza is written out as well.
Certainly, Mozart, Beethoven and also, for example, Bruckner (at the organ) were reported to have been great improvisers. Yet I am not talking about composers, but today's jazz musicians vs today's classical musicians.
And no, you don't need to defend classical music to me. It's the music I have listened to the most throughout my adult life, and it is music that I deeply love.
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Why would this be, Brad? I would think air conditioners are pretty electrically noisy, and I would think more air conditioners would be on at night than during the day since people are home at night.
Learning an instrument today is definitely wealth privilege as music education has been completely removed from public schools. Unless you have the disposable wealth to afford an instrument and lessons, you are not playing.
it’s really too bad.
I suspect he means that most folks do not use AC. Where I live AC is on the rise but probably only 5% of houses has it, so electronic pollution over here is caused by; switching stuff on and off, poorly designed and/or sized grid transformers, EMI, arc welding, whatever. In our current house the heater in my espresso machine cycling off causes audible ringing in the wiring of the 3KW balanced isolation transformer I am using for audio. No biggie as the Urania is switched off by the time I start serious listening.
Troubleshooting electrical noise and transients
Electrical noise is the result of more or less random electrical signals getting coupled into circuits where they are unwanted, i.e., where they disrupt information-carrying signals.
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In Denmark night time is still the best time for listening, when it comes to electrical power. We don't have much AC, but price structuring and taxation is pushing more users into electrical heat exchange systems using our ever present windmill power instead of oil and other dirtier heating sources.I suspect he means that most folks do not use AC. Where I live AC is on the rise but probably only 5% of houses has it, so electronic pollution over here is caused by; switching stuff on and off, poorly designed and/or sized grid transformers, EMI, arc welding, whatever. In our current house the heater in my espresso machine cycling off causes audible ringing in the wiring of the 3KW balanced isolation transformer I am using for audio. No biggie as the Urania is switched off by the time I start serious listening.
Troubleshooting electrical noise and transients
Electrical noise is the result of more or less random electrical signals getting coupled into circuits where they are unwanted, i.e., where they disrupt information-carrying signals.
Yes I agree, it really is too bad.
At the elementary and intermediary level, some schools used to supply basic instruments for free or a small rental while a music teacher rotated through several schools once a week. It was not uncommon for the music teacher to a part-time musician. High schools and colleges supplied larger instruments without cost, for example, timpani, bass drums and other percussion, contrabass bassoons, bass and alto clarinets, harps, tubas, sousaphones, and so on.
But many programs besides music education have been cut by schools or school boards in favor of 'other priorities'. Woodworking, metal shop, home economics, public speaking, automotive shop, office and secretarial skills, accounting, sewing, drivers ed, creative writing, choir - maybe not entirely gone everywhere. Skills that might equip a student to begin working out of high school as an apprentice or novice are now pushed into 'community colleges' or trade schools or trades which likewise require wealth or indebtedness or union privileges.
Not sure about that, where I live music education was never that big in our school system. There are alternatives if there is motivation and prioritiesa allow it; there is the autodidact route, internet, peer teaching...I mean, unless you want a very thorough background education in music there are ways to get to play music.
From what I've been told it started with the focus on standardized testing. I'm 47 years old and had the privilege of having parents with a few bucks and music in school starting in third grade.
that totally depends on what school you look at, in elementary school art is taught trying to learn kids to appreciate it in different ways but in a very broad way, more focussing on culture as whole. In Secondary schools it really depends on the level of education.
Parents have a larger role there IMO, taking kids to musea, musical performances, theatre, listening to music with them etc.
My 5 year old appreciates Mahler as much as Kollektiv Turmstrasse, his attention span is still short so brief stints of exposure work best.
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