Does anyone have Jay Chou's Secret music sheet that can be downloaded for free? (pdf. file) I want the piece which Rain played to go to the future. It sounds like classical music. 10 points for the best answer! Thanks for your help:) Not sure if this contains the sheet music your looking for but follow the link,make sure you see password to open files All the guy asked where he could find the sheet music,whether its truly classical is immaterial.Jay Chou who Ive never heard of seems to be doing well with his spin of pop/classical. Report It
This is not classical music. Actually...believe it or not Malcolm...it is classical music...I checked it out on youtube....it's just really BAD classical music (sorry if this offends the asker). It's one of those composers that tries to write in an older classical style and it ends up being a terrible mix of baroque, classical, and romantic themes. It just ends up sounding like "bad rachmaninoff" or "bad" chopin, etc .etc.
Here is my theory on why composers of today cannot write music in those styles and have it be a strong composition (unless it is done for the purpose of learning about the styles, etc, but this still does not make the music programmable):
Composers in those time periods (ex. Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, etc)...their ideas were extrememly new and in some cases experimental for their time. They were breaking new ground and making monumental discoveries within classical music. They were living in those times and the music they were writing reflected their times.
It is IMPOSSIBLE for someone of today to write like the old masters (and in their style) and still have it be a good composition because we naturally have much different aural influences than they did...we have pop music, jazz, media/commercials...an entirely different culture at an entirely different pace.
These things influence composers whether they admit it or not...it is subconscious. For example...Yanni claims that he doesn't listen to anyone's music but his own for fear that he will be influenced. This is why Yanni is a complete moron. He's too stupid to realize that as soon as he came out of the womb...his brain and ears were being influenced by whatever was around him. All good composers try to listen to AS MUCH music as they possibly can in as many styles as they can. It is the only way for one to know what the new levels and standards are and also it is a way for you to discover new things and trigger new ideas for development.
But getting back to Mr. Chou's music...it may be idiomatic for the piano, but certainly couldn't be regarded by any composition professional as a high quality work of art. You can hear pop influences in his music....listen to this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAOWenyeC...
Notice the overly repetitive harmony very typical of pop music. Most composers of today use the "rule of 3"...never repeat something more than 3 times in a row (unless you're a minimalist like Glass or Reich but they make up for the repetition with colorful chords and complex polyrhythms).
Anyway...these pop influences of his (and anyone trying to do what he is doing) will always make the music sound like "bad classical"...this is why most new classical composers of today write so differently than Beethoven, Mozart. They have to, or they will sound trite. Most composers fo new music also are trying to follow in the steps of the masters...NOT by emulating their style, but emulating their thought process....Beethoven wanted to push the boundaries of music and create a language all of his own. He was inspired the composers before and learned from them, but he certainly did not copy their style!
This is just my opinion, of course, and anyone should listen to whatever they choose and whatever makes them happy. I just think if people only knew what good classical music is out there...they would never listen to the 2nd rate stuff ever agin.
Here are some examples of what most people consider to be good new compositions for the piano (and by good I mean that even if you dislike it, it is still virtually undebatable that it is a work of art and a sound composition.):
Gyrogy Ligeti, Etude - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTaiDHqs...
Carl Vine, Sonata - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrZaQ-Oc8...
Samuel Barber, Sonata mvt 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJIOouOua... (this piece isn't even really new - written in 1949...but it's so well written it sounds like it was composed yesterday...and it's also a great example of how old techniques from the masters can be turned into something new and amazing without sounding trite. His use of the fugue, a technique stemming from the Baroque era, borders on genius.) |
