I want to listen to classical music. How should I start?

Start with your favorite music and recommend some as follows:

Baroque era:

Aria, violin concerto and Brandenburg concerto on Bach's G string.

Vivaldi-violin concerto "Four Seasons"

Classicism:

Beethoven-Symphony No.3 in E flat major, Symphony No.5 in C minor, Violin Concerto in D major and Piano Sonata No.14 in C minor, dedicated to Alice.

Mozart-opera The Wedding of Figaro, Turkish March, String Serenade in G Major, Piano Concerto No.21in C Major, Symphony No.40 (the basic score of S.H.E who doesn't want to grow up), Serenade and Waltz of Flowers.

Symphony No.45 "Farewell" in Haydn -F minor and cello concerto in C major

Romanticism:

Chopin-Gorgeous Waltz, Serenade in E-flat Major, Serenade in F-flat Major, Serenade in B-flat Major, Serenade in A-flat Major, Etude Revolution in C-minor, Polish Dance Hero in A-flat Major.

Mendelssohn-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Riding on Singing Wings, Violin Concerto in E Minor

Schubert-Serenade, Wild Rose, Ode to the Virgin

Wagner-Wedding March (you can't know it ...), Valkyria Opera House.

Post-romanticism:

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony in F minor: Destiny; Ballet Swan Lake; Romeo and Juliet.

Johann Strauss II-Blue Danube Waltz, Spring Waltz, Southern Rose Waltz.

The opera Carmen

If you are of the right age and interested, you can learn violin, cello, trumpet and piano, which will be more profound. Girls play the violin best.

In fact, everyone feels different when listening to classical music.

I like Bach's unaccompanied violin sonatas and suites very much. My friend told me that they are noise (just kidding, in fact, he likes classical music very much).

So, don't care what others say, and don't care how high your artistic achievements are-what you should care about is your own love of music. Paying too much attention to academic things will affect the feeling of listening to songs.

To say the least, which great musicians left so many classics, and why?

Is it for future generations to study?

I think the greatest significance is not (of course, not against the study of music theory), but that we should be able to share this beauty with them.

So, don't care about the authoritative evaluation-because your love for classical music is the greatest comfort to those late masters.

Get down to business

Check the author's information first. Then divide the symphony into several parts and enjoy it in sections. Listen to what instruments are used in each part, and finally write down your feelings. Talk to friends or teachers.

Actually, I'm not a professional musician, I just like to enjoy it. I suggest you start with the waltz of the Strauss family! The music of the Strauss family is relatively simple, neither rigorous in classical times nor complicated by Shostakovich and his family. Of course, my favorite music is baroque music, especially Bach's organ music and Vivaldi's concerto. I feel that they just tell the true meaning of life, but these songs are more rigorous and not easy to accept at first.

As for books, I think if you don't want to be a professional, it's unnecessary, just like if you don't want to learn English linguistics, you don't have to read grammar books. The main thing is to appreciate more. I have this feeling that sometimes I recall a piece of music I heard a few years ago and suddenly feel that I understand it all. No matter what I thought at that time, it was useless.

How to enjoy the symphony?

Some people think symphonies are unattainable and difficult to understand. As everyone knows, like an article, it is also divided into depths. As long as you know how to appreciate it, it is not difficult to get started. Because what it reflects and describes is, after all, people's life and people's thoughts and feelings. As soon as ordinary people enter the door, they can change from ignorance to understanding and from ignorance to Excellence. Of course, when you appreciate a more profound symphony, you need to have a certain and corresponding life experience and a higher cultural level. "You must supplement it with your own experience, impression and knowledge accumulation."

Here are several different symphonies, briefly talking about the methods of appreciation:

There is a kind of symphony called "sound and picture", which mainly describes the scenery of nature and life and is relatively easy to understand. For example, Russian composer Mosolski's paintings in the exhibition, Bao Luoting's Prairie of Central Asia, German composer Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and French composer Debussy's Sea can all be said to be such works. Listening to the music of "the sea", the listener is like being on the shore of the sea. From dawn to noon, he appreciates the changes in color, light, sound and shape of the sea. Sometimes he feels the wind whistling, sometimes he refuses to surf on the shore, sometimes he floats, and sometimes he splashes. It's changing really fast. Appreciating these works, coupled with rich imagination, can invisibly gain conceptual associations-how beautiful nature is, how interesting life is, and everything is endless.

There is a symphony called "Dance Music", which has a strong national style, short music, simple feelings and clear melody. Most of them describe customs and festivals, which have the characteristics of singing and dancing. There are also clips cut from ballet and made into separate instrumental music. This kind of symphonic dance music is easy to understand and will soon become popular. For example, more than 400 waltzes by Austrian, Bolero by French Ravel, Slavic Dance by Czech composer dvorak, Hungarian Dance by German Brahms, Yao Dance by China composer, etc. all belong to symphonic dance music.

In symphonic music, there is a kind of story, which generally has a title or subtitle in each movement. Most of this kind of music is based on familiar and widely circulated plays, poems, legends, myths, novels and stories. For example, the Arabian Nights (Suite) adapted by Russian Rimkiki Kosakov according to the Arabian Myth Novel Arabian Nights; French Bizet's "Carmen Suite" is based on the music fragments of the opera of the same name; He and Chen Gang's butterfly lovers Violin Concerto is based on the folk story butterfly lovers.

Different from drama, literature, poetry, folk art, movies and television, these music works do not provide specific characters or plots for the audience visually and linguistically, but give full play to the function of music, and express the detailed inner feelings of the characters as the main means to let the listeners feel from the heart. If the viewer knows what it describes in advance, when listening to music, he will imagine something in his mind with the sound, and he will enter the specific artistic conception stipulated by music, causing emotions.

In symphonies, there is one kind that has no story and does not describe scenery, but reflects people's very delicate, rich and changeable emotional ups and downs through musical means. This kind of music has no title (only a few words if there is a title), which reflects people's views and hopes for society in a specific society. Such as Beethoven's symphonies Hero, Destiny and Chorus, Tchaikovsky's symphonies Fifth Symphony and Pathetique.

To appreciate this kind of symphony, the listener must know something about the composer's time, environment, experience, experience and life experience. At the same time, he should also know his motivation to write this song and the basic content of music (it is best to know some forms and techniques, etc.). In this way, when listening to music, the listener can get a signal in his heart with the ups and downs of music, and turn it into a philosophical concept. Of course, to get to this point, you need to have certain cultural knowledge and life experience. For example, Beethoven's (1770- 1827) famous symphony Destiny, through the bittersweet experience of Beethoven's own life, was connected with the people who shared his destiny at that time, expressing the will to fight against the fate. It reflects the people's demands for freedom, equality and human liberation. When Beethoven wrote this song (at the age of 38), it was the age when the bourgeoisie and the feudal system fought to the death. "Symphony of Destiny" expresses his firm will, tenacious struggle and warm hope, which is sometimes turbulent, sometimes meditating, sometimes accumulating strength, sometimes fierce struggle, sometimes bravely advancing, and sometimes cheering for victory.

When appreciating a symphony, if the appreciator has some basic musical knowledge at the same time, such as the change of style, mode, theme, inspiration, orchestration, expression technique, timbre contrast and so on. Then he can gain more knowledge and enjoy beauty.

1 Adjustment of mentality in enjoying symphony

Symphony appreciation needs a suitable psychological environment. We can see that many people enjoy symphonies without psychological preparation, and they always feel out of tune with music, which is the result of not adjusting their mentality.

First of all, the appreciation of symphony is mainly carried out through the auditory system, so a "static" internal and external environment is particularly needed. Whether going to a concert or listening to music, you need to enjoy it seriously and quietly. Although your mood will fluctuate with the mood of music, you can't applaud a sentence or a point like enjoying pop music or comedy. Your auditory system should keep a certain state of excitement and concentrate on music. Some people listen to music or do things while reading books, and some people even do other things while listening to concerts, which is particularly unfavorable for the appreciation of symphonies. Symphony needs to pay attention to details, especially the whole. Many symphonies even require us to listen to several movements in one breath before we know their meaning. If there is no mentality conducive to enjoying the symphony, it will definitely affect the quality of appreciation.

Secondly, when appreciating the symphony, don't be too rational. Some people always think that after enjoying a symphony, they should be inspired and rewarded just like enjoying a novel or a movie, but the result is often the opposite. Appreciating music, especially symphonies, the content expressed by music is highly abstract. It is absolutely impossible to say that a word must be a flower and a paragraph must be grass. Here is the sun and there is the moon. The process of appreciating symphony is a process of physical and mental consumption. After enjoying a symphony, you should be tired, and you will often have more emotional feelings, which should be the most important. If we rationally analyze what the author wants to say here and there, or how this band plays and how that band plays, it will affect the author's understanding of music. Successful appreciation should be admiration for the composer and the beauty of music, not for others.

2. Grasp the music image in music appreciation.

Whether it is a traditional symphony or a modern symphony, most of them have one or more major musical images. The main musical images will appear in music many times in most cases. The main musical images generally have characteristics, some in melody, some in rhythm, some in the order of harmony or the development of chords, and some in musical instruments with certain characteristics. In symphonies, this musical image usually appears after the introduction, repeating itself as it is or in a new way. After the great evolution, it will often enter the stage of repetition, and at the end of the last part, this image will be "flashed" many times. When appreciating a symphony, it is very easy to understand music by paying attention to recognizing these images and grasping their emotional characteristics.