Do you also get emotional whilst listening to classical music?

[Praetorian]

Because I do. I'm listening to the 9th symphony* and I got like all teary eyed.

It's beautiful. The day I will become Prime Minister of (insert rich and powerful country here) this music will be played at any and all inauguation ceremonies.

Also, if you get it with any other genre of music, please specify. Because that'd just make me think you're a wuss. One is only allowed to become emotional over classical music.


*If you want to know which piece I'm talking about, click this link. This is my favourite bit of this song and all classical music together. Incidentally it's also the European Union's anthem. I didn't know that. I liked it because it appeared in the first episode of Excel Saga and I loved it.http://www.national-anthems.net/files/54_MP3_54a683c7afa4610f12e33a5085432042/europeX.mp3

[Iekleane]

Nope I'm an emotionless husk of a man wrapped in pron.

[moo]

I do, not like crying, but it usually does trigger emotions, of happyness or sadness, when I am listening to some classical music, or even some of the music composed for some of the rpg's I used to play.

[Jay]

Oh yeah, totally. I listen to Andrea Bocelli track sometimes, and while he might not be *real* classical, like Beethoven etc, he's still powerful enough to get me emotional.

Pavarotti is awesome as well. Too bad he retired. :(

[Stephy]

I don't get emotional to classical music. I think I would, if it was used in certain movies, that cause you to cry.

[koku]

............no.


but I get really sleepy. So classical music in the car is like, a bad idea.

[MajorProblem]

I don't get emotional to forms of entertainment. I'm too busy scrutinizing every note/frame there is. "HAHA that violinist was late!"

[Myrsilus]

I have teared up on many occasions while listening to classical music. I remember this one moment in my high school when my orchestra teacher and I were listening to a very beautiful Tchaikovsky song (Sorry if the spelling and composer is wrong) ... I think it was a song dedicated to a dead princess. Gymnopedie I think. x.x

Anyway, I got a little emotional and some of the students saw that my eyes were a bit glassy. This real idiotic guy started asking why I got like that and was laughing at me for it. My teacher chewed him out bad and said he needs to grow up and appreciate the music.

And the classical music that makes stirs great emotion in me can come from anywhere... I don't need to know the music was composed by a famous composer... It can be game music for all I care. As long as it hits the right notes and makes effective transitions.

[h2orowe]

XD You guys's be wussy.

Hahaha just messin, I don't listen to much classical though, so it's not like I can really say I do or don't.

[Myrsilus]

I think it takes a lot of understanding of music on a technical and emotional level to have those types of feelings. It's not the same as rock (which I also love dearly). One has to really listen to the subtleties of the piece and it takes a lot of personal effort to understand what the point of each part of the piece is trying to say.

Eh I hope my weird rant makes sense...

[Daishikaze]

Praetorian my friend, I get the feeling that this probably wasn't the best group to ask such a question to.

anyways, I have definately felt emotionally moved by classical music, I can't recall if I've ever gotten misty-eyed, but I probably have.

[Shamu]

Having been in orchestras and choirs a good protion of my life, I don't usually get teary eyed with classical music, I'm too busy listening to see how good the orch/choir is. But there is one that can get me everytime and that's Durefle's (Sp) "Requiem". Oh yeah, somtimes Dvorak "New World Symphony" mvmt 1 can get me too.

[Tssss..]

eh, it depends on the music. it can make me sad, but most of the time the happy cheerful classical music doesn't do anything for me.

[kensei]

Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 4th Movement all the way.

Ode to Joy has a tendency to get my body all worked up >.> Be it for battle or...other activities *cough*

[Myrsilus]

Ah an allusion to another thread... I still think that would be some damn dramatic and explosive love-making.

[Invictus]

Classical does that to me. So does Celtic music...

[StormShadow]

For some odd reason, the only time I really get teary eyed or actually cry has only been in war movies. Some moments in "Tae Guk Gi" are so powerful, you have to be the Tin Man to not be stirred to tears. And the ending of 'Red Dawn', so so powerful. For those of you have seen this movie, I'm talking about the park where the two brothers sit on the bench and die in each others arms.

[Tssss..]

oh yeah........celtic music and latin chants. hell yeah.

[StormShadow]

I've never really been into Celtic music. My Grandma is an Irish Cahtolic, and when she plays Celtic music I can't stand it. I just gets under my nails like bamboo

[Annoying MSN Person]

Usually not anything. But now Diana Krall sets me off crying. Dad would play her DVDs really loudly in the lounge room, and I'd yell at him and stomp off to my room. God, I was such a brat.

He was going over what he wants for his funeral with us, and we found this really nice one by her that he wants played. I'll never really be able to hear her without remembering him now.

[Arvynia]

wow, Michael, you didn't know that?

I like Cannon in D.

There's this other one, I think it's called Violin Sonata no. 9 - they have it on some cellphone ring tones... I really like it a lot.

[Invictus]

Pachelbel's Kanon is the best bit o' music ever composed, in my humble opinion. Handel's Messiah runs a close second.

[kensei]

I often sleep to Cannon in D. Such a wonderful piece of music.

[h2orowe]

I like this one, it's but some Japanese guy named Taki something or something Taki.
The english name is The Moon at the Ruined Castle.
We sang it in choir.... it was cool.
It was classic though, but with words.
It was like Haruko Jono, Hananoen (note: I only remember the sounds, not the actual words) I forgot the the rest -.-
but it's really good.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

In my Art Class, everyone was noddin' their heads to "Yeah" (Fuck you, Usher).

The next few minutes, the Radio played "Mr. Lonely" by Akon, and four girls looked depressed all of a sudden.

One of them started crying.

[psychicstooge]

The only classical music that has really had any significant emotional impact on me would be Ravel's "Le Gibet" from Gaspard de la Nuit; or many pieces by Arvo Pärt, foremost among them "Für Alina," "Silouans Song," and "Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten."

I find Gregorian chant highly creepy (in a good way; I like creepy music).

Loreena McKennitt has a very powerful voice. Some of her material can get the emotions going.

Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon both hit me really hard. There's an indescribable ache in Mark Kozelek's voice.

Maybe some people will think this is lame, but Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" comes dangerously close to teary-eyed territory for me, especially if I'm watching the video.

Also, one of my all-time favorite records (which is by a metal band) has an extended piano/vocal intro that has been compared to "Rachmaninoff on codeine and muscle relaxers." And that album hits me like few others ever have.

[Praetorian]

Praetorian my friend, I get the feeling that this probably wasn't the best group to ask such a question to.


Don't worry, I for one don't care if a bunch of internet dipshits that hide behind anonimity call me a wussy.

Then again, you'd be pretty messed up if you did.

[Invictus]

Actually, my estimation of Praet's coolness went up by several points after seeing this thread. Nice to know that not all people are cynical bastard 'net rabble with an IQ of 0.01... :p

[Tssss..]

Don't worry, I for one don't care if a bunch of internet dipshits that hide behind anonimity call me a wussy.

Then again, you'd be pretty messed up if you did.


i think it proves you've got balls for admitting to it.

yes, my respect for praet has gone up quite a bit.

besides, the music is beautiful and if you didn't like it you'd be insane.

[CNagy]

Classical doesn't necessarily make me misty or anything like that, but it can definitely raise my spirits. I'm highly affected by music, in both good ways and bad. Elderly Woman Behind a Counter in a Small Town (I think that's the title) by Pearl Jam has gotten me watery a time or two, Walk by Pantera produces an instant adrenaline rush, etc.

Classical music just generally gives me a feeling of wellbeing, with the exception being Beethoven's 9th, which I've associated too much with ultraviolence. Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries is another one of those adrenaline producing pieces, and I get drawn a little too much into Mozart's Fantasy in D Minor.

[Admiral Luis]

Whenever I hear Bach - Air on Strings I get so sad I almost cry, but still I hear it a lot

[Joe]

Ah, classical music, my favorite genre. I haven't listened to enough of it.

One time I remember though, was I was in my fathers car, and we were riding through a forest, and all of a sudden, the song "Adagio for Strings" came on. I was already a tad bit depressed. But the moment I heard the chrods play, and the strings echo through the car, I felt like I wanted to die..

It took all my effort to not cry, and I found myself holding back tears. It is by far the saddest music I have ever heard in my entire life, and that feeling of sadness was so great, I felt like my inside spirit had been crushed.

Andrea Bocelli has been known to stir my emotions...

It's a bit creepy that music can do that to you.

Oh yes, There was also a bit of Opera I managed to take from a game of star wars. It was composed by John Williams, the man who created the music for star wars. It was only played when you lost a scenario, and it was only about and minute and a half long, but holy shit was it sad... Trumpets bring out this melody of woe, and then this chorus of voices follow shortly after, and the overall effect is just amazingly sad, and it was actually a bit much just for a Real Time Strategy game...

Trivia: They played that score in the last Star Wars movie, When Anakin is being raised on the metal platform, in his Vader gear.

[Admiral Luis]

are you telling the true joe??? so lets hear "adagio for strings" and cry together my friend

[hapacheese]

Pachelbel, Bolero, Beethoven... All sort of put me in a trance. Particularly Beethoven... I don't know what it is about his melodies. They're just so *rich*.

And while technically not classical, "Ave Maria" makes me want to breathe a little deeper.

[Praetorian]

Anybody tried the Russian Anthem? Although not per definition classical, it puts me into a 'trance' too.

[Unactuality]

Rock is great, but for sheer depth and breadth...

I don't see how anyone can claim to truly love music without appreciating the enormous amount of art we conveniently (and somewhat inaccurately) label Classical. It's depressing that so many of my peers seem to think that music began with The Beatles.

Kyrie Eleison.

[Kenshin]

Wow, this is one of the greatest threads I've seen in a while... (I love music, what can I say?)
Classical music is one of my favorites; and I'm almost the only one in my group of friends who listens to that kind of music and doesn't run off to change the CD or starts mumbling about how bad it is, or how it makes them sleep... I'm afraid hip-hop and reggaeton have corrupted their souls...
Anyway, I sometimes get emotional while listening to Bach, Mozart, Chopin, or Beethoven (I love Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, 1st Movement.) ; but for the most part classical music always lifts my mood up (I only cried my eyes out once, considering that I was really depressed before I heard the song).

By the way, I've just looked up Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber (heard a little part of it before, and mixed with techno, but didn't know the original composer) and it is extremely beautiful... and then this came up in the search:
"dj tiesto - just be - adagio for strings.mp3" ...WTH?

[Pfalzer]

Yeah i love classical its liek one of the few types of music tht actually makes u vibrate from the inside out if is very good. Its like a story or feelings without the use of words. U can almost picture the notes .

[hapacheese]

A coworker of mine in Japan had a baby a few years back. He's a musician (one of our composers), so he named his daughter "Kanon" after Pachelbel's "Canon."

The kanji for it is 華音, which means "flower sound."

I thought it was really sweet/creative.

[Daishikaze]

Listening to "This Is The Time (1990)" by Savatage right now, and I got tears streaming down my face. When you know what the song is about and what happened afterwards it really is a tragic turn of events

[Expert Insomniac]

Ah, yes. For me, the one that gets me every time is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. That song kind of has a magical effect for me, that it can be whatever I need it to be in that moment. For the most part, though, it's just very... lonely.

[Soli]

I like classical music, but it doesn't make me cry. The only thing that has ever made me cry was Pokemon the Movie Mewtwo Strikes Back. It happens everytime, without fail.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

Pok'emon?!

Well, the only thing that made me get close to crying was a Naruto Theme called, "Sadness and Sorrow," (http://www.narutofan.com/downloads/download2.php?mirror=1&file=music08) composed by Toshiro Masuda. That guy can really do his job, he can create the perfect mood and tone of music to any scene, as he emphasizes the mood and feelings of one into music.
If you want to see a clip with the music in the background, Episode 19 of Naruto can be a complete tear-jerker to all of you. I guarantee, you'll b left crying your heart out when the episode finishes.

[Myrsilus]

A coworker of mine in Japan had a baby a few years back. He's a musician (one of our composers), so he named his daughter "Kanon" after Pachelbel's "Canon."

The kanji for it is 華音, which means "flower sound."

I thought it was really sweet/creative.
First I would like to say that is beautiful. I'd love to name any children I might have after some part of music that has truly influenced me... I'll have to think about it, though... Can't name my kids Baroque. x.x

And Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is quite beautiful, but I am extremely pissed that it is used SO DAMN MUCH. People have made the song lose its true beauty and significance... Yeah I know it's great, but I can't help but become indifferent to it from hearing it over and over.

Anyone ever listen to Baroque period music? It's one of my favorites... I know Bach certaintly wasn't the father of Baroque (it was an Italian dude that I can't remember), but he truly was an amazing composer.