shudder said:Any other Dissensians like Opera?? (or other non-contemporary/avant "classical" music? I mean, I like the avant shit too, but I'm going crazy right now over this recording of handel arias...)
opera is hard for me, only because a lot of it strikes me as technically amazing but its hard to maintain the vibe on- i either get the catchy bits (les toreadors, aria #14 from the magic flute) or i get lost in waves of endless melodramatic permutation (remembering what i can of the intro to wagner's tristan and isolde). i really like snippets here and there, but my patience wears thin trying to follow a whole plotline. listening habits are hard to break, i guess. don giovanni had some massive sublow going on, though, which gets some of my wheels spinning.
but palestrina and other polyphonic post-chant (HA DISSENSUS ROCK THAT!) totally hits me like a ton of bricks.
man, i'm tearing up just thinking about sicut cervus right now. like, we all think rave or punk or prog or whatever is totally 'wicked sick new future of music' but how about being the guy who first got props for using harmonies in western religious music? architectonic, yo.
de-si-de-ra-a-a-a-a-at ad fooooooontes