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'Busy' music.

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G'day all, I'm presently listening a vinyl album of a piano work by Brahms. It seems quite a 'busy' work...lots of piano notes per minute. :D

I guess the same sort of analogy can apply to all musical genres. :yes: So what are some other examples of 'busy' music? Regards, Felix aka catman.
 
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I find a lot of Jazz to be busy. I'm not often a fan of "real" jazz but tend to love jazz influenced rock.

There is a lot of heavy metal that gets too busy for my tastes as well. And I'm a Metal Head at heart. :)
 
I agree with the post above. I like listening to Mingus and Coltrane when I clean or do work around the house.
 
Many baroque compositions can be "busy." The fast movements of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are a good example, as are many of his organ works.

Other pieces that come to mind from later in music history ...

From Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride, the overture and the Dance of the Comedians
The third and fourth movements of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4
Balakirev's Islamey
The final movement of the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Much of Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
"The Flight of the Bumble-Bee" by Rimsky-Korsakov
Also by Rimsky-Korsakov, the final movement of Scheherazade
The first movement of Respighi's The Pines of Rome
 
I would add The Dixie Dregs, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen and almost all of the other guitar "shredders" out there. Too busy most of the time. To me, most of their recordings sound like practice sessions.
 
Interesting, I would never have thought of Brahms as busy per se. Certainly some of the piano Capriccios are fast, but his Intermezzi are quite the opposite. I think they are all wonderful. I recommend checking out his trio for piano, horn and violin. I would consider music with pointless passagework or noodling as busy, but pretty much nothing in Brahms (or Coltrane for that matter) is pointless.
 
Tough to make a call on this one, Felix, but I get the intention of your query. If by renaming "busy" to "cacophonous" or "clamorous", I'll put in a bid for much of the (so called) "DJ as performance artist" material I've heard. Yep, that'd be "busy" to me.

Regarding Johannes Brahms, methinks the master's material too well-organized to be labeled "busy", but that's personal reaction. Ans as for music of the Baroque period, and especially one J.S. Bach, it's mathematically disciplined to the point of being nearly the equivalent of "audio calculus" to my ears. I can think of nothing (musically) better organized or deliberate.

Back to Johannes Brahms: gosh, but wasn't the a rakish young gent?

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Tough to make a call on this one, Felix, but I get the intention of your query. If by renaming "busy" to "cacophonous" or "clamorous", I'll put in a bid for much of the (so called) "DJ as performance artist" material I've heard. Yep, that'd be "busy" to me.

Regarding Johannes Brahms, methinks the master's material too well-organized to be labeled "busy", but that's personal reaction. Ans as for music of the Baroque period, and especially one J.S. Bach, it's mathematically disciplined to the point of being nearly the equivalent of "audio calculus" to my ears. I can think of nothing (musically) better organized or deliberate. ...
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I interpreted Felix's question as a call for music that was "busy" in the sense of having many notes per minute. I couldn't agree with you more about Bach's mastery of form; some of his music has a huge number of notes, but not one of them is wasted or extraneous. The same goes for Brahms, and it's probably no coincidence that Brahms deeply admired Bach's music.
 
+1 on RK Flight Of The Bumblebee
+1 on Liszt esp Totentanz

One of my favorite Classical CDs here:

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FOTB

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Following on my personal (re)interpretation of music that strickes me a s being "busy", I'll toss out a name (he wrote, knowing full well the potential firestorm that might follow the incendiary) that, for me, conjures "busy" sounding music in the rock genre:

Rush
 
Mystic said:
Following on my personal (re)interpretation of music that strickes me a s being "busy", I'll toss out a name (he wrote, knowing full well the potential firestorm that might follow the incendiary) that, for me, conjures "busy" sounding music in the rock genre:

Rush
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I'd like to hook Neil Peart up to a machine that gives him an electric shock when he does a fill and rewards him with a food pellet when he rocks steady.
 
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