Hm, well smooth sounds aren't really my thing, but I remember that I loved listening to Bethoven's version when it was night, because it felt relaxing~
Beethoven's is heavier, it brings your attention to it, it impacts you front-first. You hear the notes pounding on your ears and your mind starts to wander... While Debussy's affects your mood, it changes you and the world you're looking at without warning you, without your awareness or consent. While Beethoven's pulls you down and orders, "Listen to it."
@Naraku I see... Well, it's difficult for me to choose one XD They're both fitting depending on the circumstances. Also, depending on the person and how they interpret it too. I like to observe the differences between POVs, specially regarding music. For example, I don't find Beethoven's exactly relaxing, I think it's there to impact you, and even so I completely understand the thought of relaxing to it at night.
Well, to be honest, it's probably because I am quite weak to "fierce" songs, so one who is like you said "ordering" like Beethoven fits my tastes better, and about Debussy's affecting the mood, I think I can agree, to me, it's trying to accentuate your current mood, to make it more "visible"
Haha, well I understand that feeling quite well XD I'm often victim to the 420 characters counter... It's quite depressing to have to cut your message in two or three when on the cellphone.
It's interesting the way you look at those two... For me it seems like I really can't do anything else besides listening when Beethoven's comes. I try to grasp every note, try to imagine a scene to it, a story behind. But when Debussy's comes... Well, I listen to those characteristic first five notes and I'm already sucked in XD Can't even remember much of the music after that
Personally I have no troubles remembering the song as longnI hear the start, though it will only last for two minutes then i will just hum back right from the start xDD
Both are interesting because they give a different feeling, Beethoven more feel like a sort of tragedy to me while Debussy is more like a mystic ballad in the night, at least that's how I picture them ^^
Yeah, that's exactly how I picture them too XD
Part of why I said that I always try to craft a story to Beethoven's. Because it reminds me of a tragedy, Shakespeare maybe, he is a master of those after all, but overall it's just that feeling of "This is a tragedy."
While Debussy's just resonates with me, it takes me in a valse I don't know the steps of, yet I dance perfectly nonetheless. It's like a peaceful yet strong tide that takes me along without leaving any afterfeeling, any marks. When it stops, I can't remember the steps anymore.
Hmm... Shakespeare is a master of both tragedy and comedy but about what I know, he loved mixing both of them... Anyway, if I had to precise more about what I though abiu Debussy version, it would be that's it's like how is "dying"
A journey without return, yet it still peaceful because there is no use to dramatize it since it's natural.
A last journey.
Perhaps, it's more like the last wishes ? At least, I portrayed like this in my head. Something you won't understand except by experiencing it, maybe the idea about death was a bit too extreme though.
Yeah, the peaceful journey without return resonates with what I imagined... Because there's no way to dance again a dance you never knew in the first place, right? There's no way to have a dream like this twice... Something like that. Maybe death is one of the extreme forms of this feeling. You just found it first.
It was a good one otherwise I wouldn't have wrote all of this ^^
I mean, trying to understand something that have so many interpretations feel fascinating specially when you share your opinion ^^
Well, I'm not as active as I was before, I use this forum more for PMs, but I hope we bump into each other once again in the future. XD
And I also hope that the conversation will be as interesting and fulfilling as this one.
*shakes your hand*
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