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#1 · (Edited)
Hi, I am very new to the classical music quadrant!

I need some suggestion to some very melodious music filled through most of the music pieces playing length...

Please help!

Thank you so much!

(I have been through with Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and Bach and love many of their music pieces.)
 
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Ignore the suggestion of Pierre Boulez ---- he's not a great composer by any stretch of the word.

Anyway allow me to give you some suggestions:

Ravel, Berlioz, Debussy, Delius, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Bax, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Shostakovich, Nielsen, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Smetana, Dvorak, Suk, Brahms, Poulenc, Bartok, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Bliss, Grieg, Gershwin, Copland, Barber, Holst, Britten, Mahler, Bruckner, Saint-Saens, Chausson, Roussel, and this list could go on forever, but there are a few to check out.
 
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Oh I see you didn't mention Haydn either, he's a great melodist too. Good place to start the London symphonies 93 - 104. For Schubert the B Flat Piano Trio, the moments musicals and impromptus for piano and most cd compilations of his songs are a place to start.
 
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The music of Hindemith and Max Reger is more mathematical than Boulez and Berg - I'm just trying to get you to assess your taste (or your openness to change) I know what you like, I know what your comfort zone is, I'm not that forgetful.. :)

Modernists and serialists stand for much the same as romantics - the creation of expressive music.

I don't know how you can like Stravinsky, for example, and completely dismiss Messiaen. Both are modernists and not serialists. (with the exception of Stravinsky's late work)

You like music which is not romantic. You've expressed a love for Stravinsky and Hindemith and I'm wondering where that will take you.. perhaps to Birtwistle.. have you ever tried any Birtwistle?
 
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Bach said:
The music of Hindemith and Max Reger is more mathematical than Boulez and Berg - I'm just trying to get you to assess your taste (or your openness to change) I know what you like, I know what your comfort zone is, I'm not that forgetful.. :)

Modernists and serialists stand for much the same as romantics - the creation of expressive music.

I don't know how you can like Stravinsky, for example, and completely dismiss Messiaen. Both are modernists and not serialists. (with the exception of Stravinsky's late work)

You like music which is not romantic. You've expressed a love for Stravinsky and Hindemith and I'm wondering where that will take you.. perhaps to Birtwistle.. have you ever tried any Birtwistle?
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I like some 20th Century music that is no lie, but I do not enjoy music that sounds like nonsense to me, which I'm afraid the music of Boulez, Berg, Webern, 12-tone Schoenberg, Lygeti, etc. are all in this category.

The music of Hindemith and Stravinsky are tonal. We're talking about works that are atonal.

I have not heard Birtwistle, but if he's anything like Boulez, then I'm afraid I'll pass.
 
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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Well,

Can't join in the argument as I know not Mr. Boulez. Shame on me, another one I have missed in my collection. Bach thanks for pointing him out to me. I like to try and be exposed to new things. Now I got something to chew on....

I do love Vaughan Williams...my recommendation...

Fantasia On Greensleeves
The Lark Ascending
Fantasia On a Theme By Thomas Tallis
 
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UniverseInfinite said:
UniverseInfinite has a true passion in the pursuit of "true melody"!
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I really love melody as well, that's why I also like so much popular music. Of course there's room for other types of music (including Boulez, I see that I've enjoyed 'Pli Selon Pli' in the past), but no way is melody banal as was said here. All music (even less mainstream) needs interesting musical ideas that grab you otherwise there is the danger it could just be too primitive being just about rhythm or timbre alone.

To show someone is being lighthearted with a remark the use of smiles helps (such as :D ).
 
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