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Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by Bud »

StavrosK wrote: post #4
ClassicalmOnly wrote: post #2

Hello HN! I am really excited to show you Classical Music Only, a social website dedicate to discover, listen and discuss classical music. I actually tried to do a "show HN" thread 6 months ago when the first alpha release was published but somehow the link was dead and nobody saw it except me:D. Now the website is in beta phase and has become much more mature since first published. The website has many features that…

Pretty long and off-topic shot, but would you (or anyone else) happen to know this piece? We've been looking for a name for years: https://soundcloud.com/stavrosk/unknown-piece-from-brewsters... On-topic, how can I listen to a performance? I clicked through to a few lists but haven't found any buttons to do that on the site.

Entirely possible that this isn't a piece at all. Sounds like it might be just a random toss-off $5 job by a hired hand.

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by jwong_ »

ClassicalmOnly wrote: post #32
MrJagil wrote: post #30

Hey, just a quick note, I'd personally enjoy a big fat action button on the landing page that just says "Play" (just like the "i'm feeling lucky" button on the "TV" page). I know you have higher ambitions with the site (social, etc), but, anecdotally, i'm studying for exams right now and don't really have the motivation to parse all that text and creating a new user, but you could've easily had me listening for an ho…

Registration is not necessary, you can just press on the "i'm feeling lucky" button and get some major/important work randomly. However, when you are logged in, you will be able to get recommendations based on your starred works and followed composers.

Where's this "I'm feeling lucky" button? I definitely don't see it at all on the home page. I've even tried an in-browser search for "lucky".

EDIT: You have to click "TV" first. Which was confusing, since I was looking for music and thinking TV referred to watching actual TV.

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by StavrosK »

p1esk wrote: post #91
StavrosK wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty long and off-topic shot, but would you (or anyone else) happen to know this piece? We've been looking for a name for years: https://soundcloud.com/stavrosk/unknown-piece-from-brewsters... On-topic, how can I listen to a performance? I clicked through to a few lists but haven't found any buttons to do that on the site.

If you can produce a MIDI encoding of this piece, I can run it through a classifier trained on a large dataset of classical composers, and identify most similar pieces. Alternatively, you can ask someone who trains deep learning models on audio files, and has a large classical dataset.

The person who transcribed it was kind enough to send it to me, I'd be grateful if you could search for it: http://mormolyke.com/stuff/brewsters.mid

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by brooklyn_ashey »

StavrosK wrote: post #49
brooklyn_ashey wrote: post #40

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wait... you contacted the cellist???? wow, ok. I'm impressed with your research! Who was the cellist? That might help me. If it was something he had with him, it was more likely for a gig or a student. I did a quick check of all Dvorak Quartets- but didn't hit upon the passage. I chose Dvorak because of the pre-copland what would become the American vibe. Don't you think? The reason I don't think it's by Ry Cooder is…

It was Marston Smith: http://lordofthecello.com/ It's definitely not by Ry Cooder, we contacted him and he said he hadn't composed it. It sounds a lot like Glazunov, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_05mIC3BIBc#t=2m10s

Ok! I put the clip out to my many professional musician friends, and we discussed it. Everyone agrees that it's probably a clip from a Dvorak imitating composer or a wedding gig book. None of us has played it. Everyone was stumped. We all thought it sounded like a cross between the Glazunov you mentioned and Dvorak. Since your cellist plays a ton of weddings and parties (from his website) I'm going to guess it is from a gig book. If it were an actual Dvorak or Glazunov, he'd remember it, or at least one of my string playing friend would recognize it. Shoot- I really thought we were going to solve this for you. Oh well- I guess you should dig into some Dvorak. I can recommend Goldmark- he wrote some beautiful quartets and work in film scoring in Hollywood for a long time. I think you'd love his string pieces. Cheerio!

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by StavrosK »

brooklyn_ashey wrote: post #104
StavrosK wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was Marston Smith: http://lordofthecello.com/ It's definitely not by Ry Cooder, we contacted him and he said he hadn't composed it. It sounds a lot like Glazunov, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_05mIC3BIBc#t=2m10s

Ok! I put the clip out to my many professional musician friends, and we discussed it. Everyone agrees that it's probably a clip from a Dvorak imitating composer or a wedding gig book. None of us has played it. Everyone was stumped. We all thought it sounded like a cross between the Glazunov you mentioned and Dvorak. Since your cellist plays a ton of weddings and parties (from his website) I'm going to guess it is fro…

Thank you, I'll look into Goldmark! I didn't even know there existed "gig books", I thought they were just playing pieces by well-known composers. Thanks again!

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by p1esk »

StavrosK wrote: post #103
p1esk wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you can produce a MIDI encoding of this piece, I can run it through a classifier trained on a large dataset of classical composers, and identify most similar pieces. Alternatively, you can ask someone who trains deep learning models on audio files, and has a large classical dataset.

The person who transcribed it was kind enough to send it to me, I'd be grateful if you could search for it: http://mormolyke.com/stuff/brewsters.mid

Ok, I will email you when I run it.

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by terminalcommand »

filleokus wrote: post #76
terminalcommand wrote: post #74

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I do not know about deeper but Spotify offers gapless playback. One can listen a symphony without interrupts. The problem with spotify is that i cannot search by label. I am new to classical music and sticking to a quality label helps a lot.

OT but: Regarding searching for labels, you can actually do that: https://news.spotify.com/se/2009/05/20/spotify-0315-with-lab... It’s just a bit cumbersome, and not so easy to find the exact name of the label stored in the database. I think you can use the API to find the (exact) name of the label assigned for a particular song.

I did not know about this functionality, thanks for pointing out.

BTW: does anyone know anything about blog.explodingads.com, it seems to be reposting HN comments and then using the comments to comment on other sites.

I saw the reference on the link you mentioned.

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by plantsbeans »

ClassicalmOnly wrote: post #2

Hello HN! I am really excited to show you Classical Music Only, a social website dedicate to discover, listen and discuss classical music. I actually tried to do a "show HN" thread 6 months ago when the first alpha release was published but somehow the link was dead and nobody saw it except me:D. Now the website is in beta phase and has become much more mature since first published. The website has many features that…

On the page that asked me to star specific works, it only asked a few standard ones, and didn't include works from most of the composers that I had starred on the previous page.
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