What is the best form of classical music? Chamber music? Concertos?

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>implying there is a "best" one
Which do you prefer? That's the best form.

Personally I'm a sucker for timbric variety so I prefer big chamber orchestras (fine, there aren't many examples of chamber orchestras), massive late-romantic symphonies and tone poems. For some reason bigass operas don't usually do it for me in spite of having plenty timbric variety.

On the other hand some of my favourite pieces ever are piano sonatas and preludes.

Bach Church Cantatas

>>69499978
For Common-Practice, Choral.

Trio Sonatas

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a Kanye concert

I like solo piano playing.

For some reason orchestral stuff bothers me because it's always slowing down and speeding up and I can imagine the conductor very emphatically waving his arms around to signal all the tempo changes and it's like, why not just play at one tempo?

>>69500634
>it's like, why not just play at one tempo?
Do you even like music?

>>69500681
why do they need to slow down and speed up so much though? it just seems over-dramatic. i guess back in the day, tempo was considered like an interesting thing to experiment with or something. that must have sucked to live back then.

"ok guys check out this trippy tempo change"

>>69500735
"we're gonna get slower....then faster!!"

>>69500735
leaving aside the fact that dynamics and tempo are as malleable instruments of composition as pitch, harmony, timbre and whatnot,
>why do they need to slow down and speed up so much though? it just seems over-dramatic.
I suppose you're thinking of the late romantic period. That's kind of what it was all about. Perhaps look in different eras. Still, your argument is a bit silly. Fixed on tempo like that. But the worst bit is this:
>that must have sucked to live back then.
That's like saying "any time in history where people enjoyed stuff that I don't must have SUCKED DUUUUDE"

Some people enjoy the "trippy tempo change", and there's nothing wrong with it. No different than enjoying a "trippy chord progression" or "trippy pantonality" or whatever.

>>69500784
oh and
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>>69500784
Nah I'm not trolling, I just don't get it. I think the problem is that once you get an orchestra together, you need a conductor, and then in order to give themselves some semblance of purpose, they insist on constantly changing the tempo as if it's somehow interesting.

>>69500824
My point is that often times it is. Yes we all can name composers that overdid it and made a mess, but as a tool to keep tension, hold atmosphere and generally make engaging music, I find that a lot of times it really works wonders, especially starting on the peak of Romanticism up until the more experimental and formless works of what could be called post-modernism (1950s onwards).

IUNNO I GUESS LEL

Minimalism

>>69501426
That's not a form, it's an approach

>>69499978
Personally, chamber music.

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I'd say the pet form

>>69501800
>>>/trash/

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>>69501435

The string quartet is the best form of all music.

>>69502091
yes, it is true