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Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Anonymous — Sat, 4 Jul 2015 15:26:34 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/04/2015 19:26

^ I quite like this idea

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Tap — Sat, 4 Jul 2015 04:28:39 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 07/04/2015 08:28

I feel like with the huge diversity of music here, I think a competition might not be the best format. I think it'd be better to do a sort of classical music exchange. so what you'd do is have everyone sign up, and they pick something and write a bit about why they think it's noteworthuy. And then everyone is randomly paired off, and everybody responds to whatever they're matched up with with a diifferent classical piece and some words on why they picked it. and each week we do a thread of one pair.

did someone pick something really minimal and you didn't like it? pick the thing that best exemplifies the narrative sense of progression that you hypothetically prefer. Someone picked something contemporary and electronic and you didn't like it? pick something that shows off the richness of the classic acoustic instruments. Etc. I think this could work. But if you all aren't down I'd still be down to throw some things into whatever happens here.

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

SuedeSwede — Fri, 3 Jul 2015 22:54:20 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 07/04/2015 02:54

Meh.

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Anonymous — Wed, 1 Jul 2015 00:28:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/01/2015 04:28

Yes. All my yes.

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

weedygonsalez — Wed, 1 Jul 2015 00:27:14 GMT

Author: weedygonsalez

Posted: 07/01/2015 04:27

"Classical" is a highly localized supergenre. Taking the above suggestions into account, I think it would also be a good idea to divide nominations and seeding by era and/or region.

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:43:28 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/29/2015 22:43

People putting in what they want will be a good idea.

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:27:18 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/29/2015 22:27

Applerill wrote:

I could lower the number of noms if you guys think it would be better. It's just that I didn't know how many of you guys would have recs outside of the basic Music Nerd Canon.

If you really want to do the esoteric thing, you could have a BEA or RYM rank cutoff.

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Applerill — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:20:32 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 06/29/2015 22:20

I could lower the number of noms if you guys think it would be better. It's just that I didn't know how many of you guys would have recs outside of the basic Music Nerd Canon.

Also, works can have a wide range of lengths. Some of them are 3-6 minutes like 4'33", others are six hours. I thought that range would make it a lot more fun than just doing classical albums.

Also, I define "classical music" as anything RYM puts under that umbrella. If a work isn't listed as a "work" on RYM, it can still be counted if it has the overall "classical music" tag on an album.

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:05:00 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/29/2015 22:05

Kiki wrote:

Bigger tournaments mean more music you may not heard before

If the listening load is too heavy, my tendency is to just give up and not participate. I certainly won't vote in matches unless I've heard both recordings. And while it's nice to go back to tournaments for recs, I enjoy them a lot more if I can participate as they're happening.

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:54:39 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/29/2015 21:54

sp4cetiger wrote:

I agree, that's why I think a big tournament would be unmanageable.

Bigger tournaments mean more music you may not heard before

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:52:22 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/29/2015 21:52

Kiki wrote:

Tournaments are about what you not heard.

I agree, that's why I think a big tournament would be unmanageable.

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:48:26 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/29/2015 21:48

sp4cetiger wrote:

5-10 noms per user? That sounds like a huge tournament. I like the concept, but only if it's much smaller, since I'm not likely to have heard most of what's nominated. Secretdad's suggestions sound good too.

Tournaments are about what you not heard.

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:45:33 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/29/2015 21:45

5-10 noms per user? That sounds like a huge tournament. I like the concept, but only if it's much smaller, since I'm not likely to have heard most of what's nominated. Secretdad's suggestions sound good too.

Re: How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Tap — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:22:04 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 06/29/2015 21:22

Define classical.

Also wouldn't this be a lot of listening? I think if it was one matchup per week maybe, with fewer nominations, and maybe some kind of group listening sessions on plug or mixlr to try to get as many people to hear the works in their entirety, then maybe that would help the lesser known ones get further.

How'd Y'all Like a Best Classical Work Tournament?

Applerill — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:08:05 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 06/29/2015 21:08

I've been talking to DBZ about this a bit, and I think it'd be fun. We'd take all our favorite classical works (any recording of them is fine) and pit them against each other. Each person would have 5-10 noms, though there would be a limit for one work per composer per user.

Does this sound like fun to you guys? I think this could be really great, but I want to make sure that we don't only vote for the famous stuff like The Four Seasons or The Disintegration Loops