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Which do you prefer: jazz or classical?

 
 
 

Do you prefer jazz or classical music?

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This might seem like a strange comparison, but I thought it'd make an interesting poll. Two huge genre's of largely instrumental music (let's just consider vocals an instrument), you're on a deserted island, you have to choose one or the other. Which do you go for?
 
Classical all the way. Although Andrew York (one of my favorite guitarists) makes some very convincing jazz music.

I have to say, however, that one could make the case that jazz is just an extension of 'classical' music. Classical music, after all, is not a genre, as people so often mistake it to be. It is more of a generic term people apply to music which they have no historical comprehension of.
 
At first it seemed like a hard choice, but when I really thought about it jazz has never moved me the way that some classical music has.
 
Had to reply 'neither', not because I dislike them, but I can't say that I prefer one over the other.
I do listen to more jazz than classical, but that's because the pieces are shorter, and also, to appreciate classical requires more concentration. Apply 'usually' to both statements.
I still listen to lots of Blues, and one could argue that Jazz grew out of that. Contemporary Jazz also takes quite a bit from World Music which I also like.
In general, I like music with some complexity, which is why I don't like Country, most Pop, and have more or less lost interest in Rock or Rock and Roll. Well actually, nobody's really doing those last two anymore, except some niche material like Metal. It's all Pop.
 
Around here, there's a local listener-supported radio station which alternates between jazz and classical every 12 hours.

Between jazz and classical, I'd choose classical, but this is just a reflection of the limited range of classical music I've been exposed to vs. the limited range of jazz I've been exposed to-- basically, I like violins and similar string instruments, and I dislike saxophones, trumpets, trombones. I know either genre can use either set of instruments, but I hear the more annoying sorts of wind instruments more often in jazz and string instruments more often in classical.

But my preferred form of non-vocal music is electronic/ambient.
 
The categories aretoo broad.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_music


Classical technically is but one of a number of distinct periods and styles in music. I like the Baroque period. Bach. There was always vocal music as well as instrumental.


Jazz also h many distinct periods with multiple forms and styles in each period.There were always jazz vocalists. Early Bing Crosby.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz
 
I'll take jazz because then I can include Ellington and Gershwin.
 
Music is music. Sometimes I like jazz and other times I like classical better. It depends on the mood I'm in...
 
If I'm stuck on a deserted island, I'm going to listen to the waves crashing into the shore.

Forced to choose between jazz and classical? That's a tough one, because there are subsets of both genres where the music is little more than self-absorbed virtuosos showing off their ability to make complicated music.

It is a bit like asking if you'd rather spend the rest of your life reading Jane Austen or Hunter S. Thompson.
 
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