What type of Music do you like?

[cjk]

just kidding all in good fun ...

[Mark]

Speaking of polkas, any body know where I can find some?
Benjamin.

Exactly what were you looking for? I guess I could say I am into polkas, among other things.

I've been thinking ahead to October and I've been thinking about buying your tuba quartet arrangments of polkas. When I get around to it in the next couple of months, would you be interested in selling them to me directly or should I purchase them through one of the online outlets?

I may also get my orchestra's trombone section to play some of these with me. Will the first tuba part fit well on a bass trombone?

[TubaRay]

The polka quartets for tuba/euph are available from Cimarron. I have some newer arrangements which have not yet been published. You could PM me for info on those. I already owe a couple of personal friends some copies which regretably I have not had the time to send them. This, however, is a temporary condition. Let me know what you are looking for. Our TubaMeister book has nearly a hundred tunes in it, now. We have most of the standards, as well as many of the more called for tunes at polka gigs.

[Dylan King]

All Zappa, all the time.

[Captain Sousie]

What? No polkas?

Oh yes, most polkas, and marches and waltzes performed by German bands like Ernst Mosch and similar. Best tuba playing!

Are you familiar with the Slovenian style of polka done in the USA? Frankie Yankovic was arguably the father of this genre. Lots of fun.

Great stuff, Everybody Polka,

Sou

[Captain Sousie]

All Zappa, all the time.

Good stuff too, anyone who fights against Tipper Gore and Hillary Clinton about censorship gets my vote.

Long Live Dada,

Sou

[Chuck(G)]

I'll listen to ANYTHING but rap!!! Ugh I don't know people can stomach that crap.

I guess you could view rap several ways--harmony for drummers, music made for its shock value, etc. But it's basically chanting, isn't it? A throwback to very primitive times--who knows, in a couple of hundred years, the rappers will discover harmony and counterpoint.

When I hear rap, sometimes Toch's "Geographic Fugue" comes to mind.

Never could get my ears around aleatoric music, though. Just seems silly.

[dtemp]

As a college student and a member of the "music snob" culture among the college kids in town, I get exposed to a lot of music. I'm a little off of my classical kick because I'm forced to listen to a bunch in my music history class. As far as 'art' music goes, I'm a 20th century fan. Cage, Bartok, Ives, etc. But after being in the music building all day, I want to wind down to other music.
Artists I've been listening to lately...
The Arcade Fire
Bright Eyes
The Postal Service
The YoungBlood Brass Band (the old Nat McIntosh stuff)
WILCO
Johnny Cash
The Dismemberment Plan
Halloween, Alaska
Inerpol
Hank Williams
Elliot Smith
They Might Be Giants
the list goes on...


ON THE SUBJECT OF RAP
I can understand why some people can't listen to rap. Probably the same reason I can't listen to most rock, but I think the problem is MTV / radio. The rap that most people listen to is crap, but there is crap music in any genre. It just so happens that the crappy kind is what we're exposed to. I believe there is good hip-hop music being made and I enjoy listening to it. Not the "bitches, hos, platinum, 40s" kind, but real artists with something to say. I find it hard to believe that some of you would listen to "anything but rap". If I have to hear that Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy song one more [explitive deleted] time... I'd rather listen to 50 Cent, I swear. Don't even get me started on 97% of rock music.

I'll leave you with a quote by comedian David Cross discussing the band Creed:
"I'd rather listen to the death rattle of my only child."

Enough said.

[adam0408]

First of all, I hate popular music. If its on MTV, the music has to be really really good for me (meaning I like it a lot) to give it a second glance.

I love punk rock: Basically all the bands that have ever been on the epitaph label. The Punk O Rama 5 compilation is probably the best that label has ever been. Check it out if you like tha punk.

I have recently gotten into more and more classic rock, because it feels so much more real than the crap that gets played today. I play guitar, so you can imagine why I like it... Hendrix is good, Buddy Guy (saw him live at the north sea jazz festival. honk honk goes my horn for myself) Funk, Jazz, HERB ELLIS-amazing jazz guitarist, Lots of different stuff. I have started to mellow out a little in my musical tastes of late. Hmmmm.... my favorite bands are probably led zep and U2, but that could change tomorrow.

[Dylan King]

So many classical musicians say that rap is just noise and the like. The message in most rap sickens me to the bone, but I do think there is quite a lot of talent involved in hip-hop music making.

My friend Mike Elizondo, who once accompanied me with a string orchestra playing the Frackenpohl Sonata in high school, is now a major rap producer. He wrote or co-wrote most of Eminem's hits and has been working with Dr. Dre and many other top artists for years. He is also one of the best studio bassists here in town and can do anything and everything with strings. People shouldn't be so fast to discredit what goes behind the music of the rap world.

[TexTuba]

Orchestra
Band
Rock
Bluegrass
Chamber Ensemble
Spanish

I think that just about covers everything....


Ralph

[Captain Sousie]

Main Entry: mu·sic
Pronunciation: 'myü-zik
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English musik, from Old French musique, from Latin musica, from Greek mousikE any art presided over by the Muses, especially music, from feminine of mousikos of the Muses, from Mousa Muse
1 a : the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity b : vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony

Sounds like rap fits the definition of music. As much as I hate to admit it.

[TubaRay]

I like Doc's list very much. However, I was quite disheartened to find out that I'm "not worth spitting on."

[TMurphy]

It's funny...I'm no fan of hip hop, nor do I care for the pop music around today (anything in the Britney Spears/American Idol sort of genre of music). But, unlike many people I know, it doesn't bother me. Obviously, on some level, the public clamors for this stuff, so there is a demand for it. Kudos to the people making themselves rich by doing it, they found a way to earn a great living.

What does bother me, though, is to see a great musical form with plenty of artistic potential get destroyed by this pop scene. And I'm not talking about orchestral music (another topic for another rant); I mean rock music.

I, personally, love rock music. I listen to jazz, orchestral, small chamber stuff, brass ensemble music, really just about anything. But, and I realize that as a future music educator I am "wrong" for saying this, my absolute favorite musical form has always been rock. My problem with rock today is that so few groups are putting out real albums anymore. A rock album should be much more than a collection of songs; it should present an idea, have a concept to it. That does not mean it has to be a concept album, like those of Pink Floyd, or Jethro Tull, or even Frank Zappa, but it means that there should, at least, be some unifying idea, a particular style or type of sound that's trying to be conveyed.

I'll use for an example one of my all-time favorite artists, Billy Joel. While there may be some songs that stand out from his library as singles, and get radio play, you really only get a true appreciation for his work by listening to his albums. Forget the greatest hits compilation CDs--you lose the effect. Albums like the Stranger, Turnstiles, 52nd Street, Piano Man, Storm Front, The Bridge, etc....if you're familiar enough with his work, you can know what song is on what album--not because you have track list memorized, but because it sounds like that album.

You can even bring that principle into Guns N' Roses debut album, Appetite for Destruction. It's a very well crafted work, with a cohesive concept of sound to it.

Adam.

If you don't already know them, check out the Dropkick Murphys, a punk rock band based out of Boston (no relation). They're on Hellcat records, which is a division of Epitaph (started by Lars from Rancid). Although still a punk rock band, with very little exploration in the way of harmony, they exhibit this concept of sound to their albums extremely well--each album has a unique sound, and their interesting use of traditional irish folk instrumentation has gotten better with each album.



Of course, like everyone else, sometimes I feel like listening to just a particular song, rather than an entire album. I look at that as being akin to listening to only one movement of a symphony...it's perfectly find to do that, as long as you realize you aren't getting the whole picture. Not enough groups treat their albums this way, because the pop culture doesn't have room for it. Record labels want singles they can put on MTV and the radio, not a well crafted album. This is what bothers me the most, and I think it is leading to the downfall of the genre as a whole.


Just my rather long winded opinion...

[Kevin Hendrick]

I like Doc's list very much. However, I was quite disheartened to find out that I'm "not worth spitting on."

I think I'd prefer that to finding out that I was ...

[Tubaryan12]

I like pretty much anything except opera. If done in English its ok. With that being said, I love Salsa (and no, I don't mean the red stuff you eat with tortilla chips...although salsa and chips are tasty with a cold beer). Even though I dont understand any of the lyrics the music is so good it doesn't matter. If I could only have one cd on a desert island it would be Jean Luc Ponty "Storytelling" or Michael Franks "Blue Pacific"