Stefan wrote:
agaricus5 wrote:
I also obtained an album by a band called "Nightwish", who have written some of my favourite music, and also one of a band called "Within Temptation", who, I am told, also have composed similar music, and that I would like it (I will be investigating this shortly 
)
Hey, cool, I never would have guessed you were into that kind of music
Now
that's intriguing. I have some rather picky (and according to some) unusual musical tastes.
Generally (
very generally), most of the music I like is more instrumental rather than vocal, although I find it hard to describe what sort of music I like listening to. Ilisten to classical music a lot, although I'm more interested in later periods of music, from about 1800 onwards (i.e. the romantic period and later) than older music, like from the baroque era, although I want to get to hear music from as many composers as I can. Currently (partly because we're playing music by those composers in my orchestra), I'm listening to composers like Dvorak and Sibelius, and I'm also getting interested in Russian composers like Tchaikovsky and Schostakovitch. From the modern era, I listen to a lot of music that falls under the instrumental or orchestral category (computer game music is probably a good example), although I'm not very keen on more "
popular"
music styles, like Blues or Jazz.
In the case of Nightwish, I'll admit that since I don't listen to much popular music, I didn't know about the band until recently, when my sister discovered it and played me a sample of their music. Since them, however, I'm pretty much a fan of some of their more orchestral music, which is full of unusual melodies, is orchestrated wonderfully, has a really good female singer, and really makes me inspired to compose music (although I cannot do so, of course). Currently, my favourite song is "
Ghost Love Score"
, which is just so musically clever I can't get enough of it. It's closely followed by "
Moondance"
, a short, but rather exciting dance-type piece, and "
Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan"
(I don't know what it means in English, though), which is very relaxing to listen to. I also like "
Nemo"
, "
Creek Mary's Blood"
(although the incantation at the end is a little odd) and "
The Siren"
, which sounds a bit like the "
Jaws"
theme at the start and has a sort of Egyptian style instrumental section in the middle, which is quite unusual. I'm still getting to know some of the other songs better, but there are one or two, like "
Romanticide"
, that I don't like very much.
I have no idea what sort of music that is, so if anyone knows better, I wouldn't mind finding out what sort of genre it is, so I can describe it more easily to people. Also, if anyone knows of any other similar bands or music, then I'd also like to hear about them.
But, still, I wasn't expecting to find someone who also knows of the band. Thanks for replying, Stefan!
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