"Moonlight Sonata"

[slipknotpsycho]

looking for other great songs similar.. i'm not really sure why i like the song... but i certainly don't have a great appreciation for classical music... so bare that in mind...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=579blxZQQXU

[psybotbob]

Ever since I first heard this song I liked it. I believe it was used in the first Resident Evil game. You had too play it on a piano to open a door. It always reminds me of Resident Evil. I had lots of fun playing it.
I'm sorry but I don't know of any similar songs.

[ghosty]

ah moonlight sonata:thumbsup:... slip, you dont have to be a fan of classical to like this song, it's just a beautiful song on the piano.

check out Mogwai - "Auto Rock" or "Freind of the Night" ( post-rock not classical but includes some very good piano)

or if it's the progression you like, check out Godspeed You Black Emporer - "Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls" (amazing song in simmilar key and progression done on guitars and strings)

[frankenfish]

Whenever i hear this song i think of Beethoven's inability to hear. To me this is his way of mourning and yearning to hear sounds and the like. Its so simple yet so effective one of my all time fav's.

[ghosty]

he didnt go deaf until lter in his career, for many of his works he could hear while he wrote them

[Hilder420]

Moonlight Sonata is great for smoking a spliff while listening to the rain... I have some suggestions for u.
Adagio- Bach
Minuet In G- Bach
Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude- Bach
Baroque Violin in D minor- Bach/ Vivaldi
Air on the G String- Bach (very popular, just hard to find)
Sonata No.1 for Cello and Piano Adante- Bach
Andante in F Major- Bach
Ave Maria- Beethoven
Overture No. 3 in D- Beethoven ( my most favorite ever)
If u like Cello suite No. 1 u will like Temple of Tears by DarkHorse off of the Confessions of a BurningMan Soundtrack... go to www.threesixtyrecords.net and seach the cd and u can listen for free... and if u want buy it... the entire cd is Great!!
My Romance- Chris Botti
Hope u like some of these.... - Hilder

[Storm Crow]

Moonlight Sonata and Clare de Lune were my bedtime music. My mom was a gifted pianist and often sent us to bed to their strains. Thank you for bringing back a childhood memory! :) - Granny:hippy:

[Hilder420]

I just found anither great one, ironically on the simpsons episode that aired tonight... adagio for strings

[birdgirl73]

I adore "Moonlight Sonata." That's on my request list for my memorial service.

Great choices, Hilder!

I think Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" is one you need in your repertoire of music in this vein, Slip. Humor your dear old Cann.com mom here and listen first to the composer-true version in the NPR link below:
NPR : The Impact of Barber's 'Adagio for Strings' (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6427815)

Then you can compare it to this YouTube version, which has been techno-popped, almost "discofied," up. Someday, perhaps not till you've had a bit more exposure to this type of music, you'll see the greater beauty in the first version, I suspect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtmomHeXvA

If you're still in a mood to humor your forum mom and want to get the same feelings, I also recommend Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria," which you can hear Pavarotti sing on You Tube if you do a quick search. Instead of watching the video, just close your eyes and listen and see if you don't feel some of the same stuff you do with "Moonlight Sonata." You have heard this version of "Ave Maria" before even if you haven't recognized it.

And finally, Mama Bird has to tell you the one that gets me every time. It's Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro." You can search this on You Tube, too, if you're inclined. Choose either the Anna Netrebko or Kiri Te Kanawa versions and, again, just close your eyes and listen and feel instead of watching.

With the exception of a couple of hymns, I've literally just laid out the playlist of my favorite poignant songs.

[slipknotpsycho]

I adore "Moonlight Sonata." That's on my request list for my memorial service.

Great choices, Hilder!

I think Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" is one you need in your repertoire of music in this vein, Slip. Humor your dear old Cann.com mom here and listen first to the composer-true version in the NPR link below:
NPR : The Impact of Barber's 'Adagio for Strings' (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6427815)

Then you can compare it to this YouTube version, which has been techno-popped, almost "discofied," up. Someday, perhaps not till you've had a bit more exposure to this type of music, you'll see the greater beauty in the first version, I suspect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtmomHeXvA

If you're still in a mood to humor your forum mom and want to get the same feelings, I also recommend Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria," which you can hear Pavarotti sing on You Tube if you do a quick search. Instead of watching the video, just close your eyes and listen and see if you don't feel some of the same stuff you do with "Moonlight Sonata." You have heard this version of "Ave Maria" before even if you haven't recognized it.

And finally, Mama Bird has to tell you the one that gets me every time. It's Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro." You can search this on You Tube, too, if you're inclined. Choose either the Anna Netrebko or Kiri Te Kanawa versions and, again, just close your eyes and listen and feel instead of watching.

With the exception of a couple of hymns, I've literally just laid out the playlist of my favorite poignant songs.

well i tried but the link doesn't even play any music :p it's just a bunch of talking about him and th song.

i have heard ave maria, but it's not my style... (i didn't reconize it of course until i heard it play..)

[ghosty]

ah yes, ave maria gets to me everytime I hear it... I love the version they use in 28 days later, ive been meaning to download that version

[rebgirl420]

I have a bunch of classical music on my music list over my house. I always thought I was weird for it but now I see im not alone haha

[Baker420]

i love this kind of music..its so relaxing

[couch-potato]

All deez beats ain't gut SHIT on mah homeboy: Johann Sebastian Bach. His track Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is DAH SHIT yo!!! G-unit word up to ya motha.


Yet in all seriousness, are any Cann.com members so devoted to their taste in Classical to have favorite sub genres as I do? Romanticism and Baroque have extraordinary appeal to my tastes - they suited my readings of Frankenstein and Dracula (Both Gothic novels written during the Romantic movement) with utmost perfection, also I highly recommend composer Gustav Holst for anyone who is interested. His score of The Planets is dah shit.

[ghosty]

lol... getting gangsta wit dat classical

[couch-potato]

lol... getting gangsta wit dat classical


G-Unit word up spice kitten kittyhawk sippin' on mah gin n juice in da hood bonkers

[birdgirl73]

Try that NPR link again, Slip, and click on the The Song link inside on that page. You have to get past the little NPR promo, like usual on those things, and then the music starts. I even had my real son test it for me. Barber's "Adagio for Strings" is outta this world.

[birdgirl73]

You got dat right, awight, about JS Bach, my brutha Couch-Potato.

Baroque for me, too. The cyclical, wonderful nature of it is very pleasing to my soul. Vivaldi and Bach in particular. Romantic is nice, too, but it doesn't thrill me like baroque.

Slip, put Vivalid's "The Four Seasons" on your list for future upbeat listening.

[slipknotpsycho]

Try that NPR link again, Slip, and click on the The Song link inside on that page. You have to get past the little NPR promo, like usual on those things, and then the music starts. I even had my real son test it for me. Barber's "Adagio for Strings" is outta this world.

clicked the wrong link :p

k listened, still didn't really like it... it was alright but doesn't 'do it' for me like moonlight sonata does..

[birdgirl73]

k listened, still didn't really like it... it was alright but doesn't 'do it' for me like moonlight sonata does..
That's OK. That's even what I would expect you to say on first hearing it. In time, you may come around, particularly with more exposure to it. It didn't get to me in the same "Moonlight Sonata" way until I was in my late 20s. "Ave Maria" and "O Mio Babbino Caro" didn't speak to my soul till I was in my early 30s. I think it takes time.

[Coelho]

I have a bunch of classical music on my music list over my house. I always thought I was weird for it but now I see im not alone haha

Me too! Most songs i would suggest were already suggested, except one, which is also one of my favourites:

J.S.Bach - Pachbell's Canon

Its amazing how the song progresses... the 1st violing sets up a theme, then the 2nd repeat this theme, while the 1st sets up a new theme, then the 3rd violin repeats the 2nd, the 2nd repeats the 1st, and the 1st starts a new theme... and so on during all the song... its amazing! And beautiful too! Hearing while stoned feels like hearing the angels playing in the Heaven... :stoned: