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Thanks!:)

This time it should get sifted!:)
http://www.videosift.com/video/Noir-Desir-Le-Vent-Nous-Portera-english-subtitles

Thank you graciously, Sire!

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Beautiful. I generally prefer Mahler to Mozart, but this is outstanding. Thanks for posting this, Issykitty!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Little-Boy-Robin-Schlotz-Sings-Mozarts-Queen-of-the-Night is also a lot of fun

I could buy that it was a Mozart piece. Still, I'd like to hear what ruled out papa leopold too.

I find the assertion that these are Mozart's and not Leopold's somewhat suspect. They are in Leopold's handwriting and the quote above states that Mozart wasn't writing music at the time.

I'm not saying that it is impossible that Mozart didn't come up with the music and Leopold wrote it down, but it seems like a stretch to me... I would love to see what the exact criteria was that eliminated Leopold as the composer.

I know a lot of Mozart and have to admit that I've only heard a few Leopold pieces, but listening to the excepts in the clip, I don't find it outlandish that Leopold could have composed that. If you listen to the Toy Symphony, you see a lot of the influence that the father had on the son.

"There are obvious discrepancies between the technical virtuosity and a certain lack of compositional experience,"

I'm sorry, but that just reeks of conjecture to me.

Still, upvote cuz it's damned interesting...

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mozart is the best every

http://www.videosift.com/video/Mozart-vs-James-Bond

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I think most musicologists find the documentary quite lacking, but as a layman's introduction to the early history of jazz it's quite decent.

It's well put together and contains a lot of great music and video clips that can serve as an introduction to the diversity of the earlier forms of this genre.

I think this quote from Jeffrey St. Clair sums up the brunt of the criticism:

"Ken Burns's interminable documentary, Jazz, starts with a wrong premise and degenerates from there ... Burns is a classicist, who is offended by the rawer sounds of the blues, its political dimension and inescapable class dynamic. Instead, Burns fixates on a particular kind of jazz music that appeals to his PBS sensibility: the swing era. It's a genre of jazz that enables Burns to throw around phrases such as 'Ellington is our Mozart.' He sees jazz as art form in the most culturally elitist sense, as being a museum piece, beautiful but dead, to be savored like a stroll through a gallery of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood."

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(TV_series)#Negative_reviews

There certainly is a mathematical aspect to composing. If your composing consists of only strunging together three chords on a guitar it may not play a huge part, but in the case of big composers like Bach, Schönberg, Mozart, etc, math is rather prevalent.

But you're right in that everything can be represented by numbers, it's just that the language we have devised for rhythm is based on numbers.

Razor just got 0WNED.

what a pathetic comment: 'ooooh, i'd like to see you try!' as if that somehow means the kid playing is automatically better and cannot be criticized.

also i just watched the video, its utter shite too, if you're gona perform in public you'd expect the person to have prepared and mastered whatever it is he was gonna do. I'd imagine on the scale of keyboard playing, the super mario theme isn't exactly Mozart.

this kid needs to A: practice. B: get electro shock therapy on his brain to delete all the jesus brainwashing.

You have no clue what capitalism is about.

Capitalism adapts. The market changes, and business change with it, or die. Government interference, especially in a case like this, is simply postponing the inevitable.

What I'm talking about is a paradigm shift. Musicians will probably go back to the days before sound recording. You know, that time period which gave us some of the greatest music ever created? Written by luminaries such as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart... Oh, my! How did they ever get talented or famous without record contracts?!!?

The days of the big music companies are numbered. Musicians can make their stuff at home these days, put it up on the web, and get fans. It's happened, it is happening, and it will continue to happen. Eventually record contracts will be a thing of the past. Musicians might make a little money if online microtransactions become easy enough, but their only guarantee of earning a living will be to tour, or perhaps to write songs on commission. Or perhaps somebody will come up with an entirely new way of making money from their creations.

This is not a fantasy. It is not anti-capitalism. It is reality. And capitalism will deal with it, and probably come out better on the other end. Such is its nature.

And about that furniture analogy. Yes, if somebody invents a way to copy furniture without paying a manufacturer, there would be a lot of people without jobs. They'll find other jobs. The world will be sooooo much better off if we could reliably copy solid objects, the benefits to society would make those few lost jobs completely insignificant. And that is what is happening with the internet.

"But I fear change! Can't we just go back to the way things were in 1990 and stay that way?"

No. Sorry. Grow up.

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