Old Music suggestions

[Krynn72]

For some reason, I've had a desire to listen to old music. I'm talking like anything from classical up to the 1950s. But I don't really know of any artists or composers besides the painfully obvious ones like Mozart and Beethoven. What are some of the must-know songs and artists from the time before most of us were even alive?

 

[xombine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg

 

[VirusType2]

Inspiration for Pink Floyd's 'The Wall', it seems: Vera Lynn -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_lynn

I know you were suggesting classical, but I just wanted to add that anyway. So, um:

J.S. Bach
Albinoni
Barber
Bizet
Debussy
Delibes
Dvorak
Elgar
Handel
Khachaturian
Masagni
Orff
Parry
Prokofiev
Puccini
Rachmaninov
Satie
Tchaikovsky
Verdi
Vivaldi

I highlighted some of the better known ones

 

[xombine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvxS_bJ0yOU

 

[NeptuneUK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A

 

[mLink]

Blind Boy Fuller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_D1Gy7IB8&feature=related

Bo Carter (his song titles are the best)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW0M2zEx-7g&feature=related

Jo Jones & Ben Webster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viImEQQdLBw&feature=related

Sinatra's on the border of your year cut-off, but you should listen to him anyway.

 

[kupocake]

Say what you like about the Bioshock series, but they have some fabulous period music in there. I basically owe my degree to the calming voices of the Ink Spots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgszyQH9VWE
And Bioshock 2 did the inevitable and brought the Mills Brothers into the party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2m8VZBfRYo
The first game also had the masterstroke of Django Reinhardt's jazz guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v7kN9UXzlE
But seriously, take a look at the gems on the soundtrack lists. Fallout 3 had some decent tunes too, but nothing like enough of them. Also, it seemed a lot like someone assembled the tracklist with a bunch of keywords related to the most obvious themes in the game...

And yes it's sad that I've largely experienced all this music through games at all. Or absolutely amazing.

edit: Oh wait, I can be even more low brow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBKmkbRLXGM

 

[Shakermaker]

My current classical top three in no particular order:


Gustav Mahler, 4th Symphony, 3rd movement 'Ruhevoll, poco adagio'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyw7bMYoqDI


Frans Schubert, quartet for strings 'Death and the Maiden', 2nd movement 'Andante con moto'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQwVVH9YbcI


Ludwig van Beethoven, 3rd Symphony 'Eroica', 1st movement 'Allegro con brio'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvztnHOWEQ



All the videos are the first of multiple parts.

 

[No Limit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpPk8qk3uQ

Don't really listen to classical music, but this has to be one the best songs (or I guess compositions is the right term) ever.

 

[Emporius]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ibeqQA2_Yw

 

[No Limit]

Also, what about that one song from fallout new vegas, really liked it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJUq8jzU0CA

Guy Mitchell - Heartaches by the number (although the fallout version seems better)

 

[The Monkey]

"Old music", isn't exactly very specific, but here's some outstanding music from the past (before 1965):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kotK9FNEYU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwXai-sgM-s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ks8Crarlg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg7YoXiKn0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhM5k_EGzaQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw

 

[Krynn72]

"Old music", isn't exactly very specific

That's basically the point. I'm not looking for anything specific, just looking to hear some music I may never had heard. Most of the music in this thread has been pretty recent though (at least, relative to the phrase "old music." But I'm enjoying a lot of this music, still havent gotten though all of the posts, but this is some good stuff. I particularly liked Shaker's classical music, as well as Dear Vera, since now Floyd's song has a lot more meaning to me haha. Still gotta go through the rest of Virus' post and look up those composers.

Also, I'll post this again, since I post it at every chance I get anyways. Its lyrics are from letters written from a father living in Ireland to his son living in the USA in the late 1800s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcO8jquCQ8U

 

[VirusType2]

Vera, since now Floyd's song has a lot more meaning to me haha. Still gotta go through the rest of Virus' post and look up those composers.

Yeah, I just burst out singing "Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said that someday that we would meet again..." one day while I was at my computer and decided to do a search for Vera Lynn.

I guess I'm about 30 years late on figuring out that it was a real person, but yeah. Nice song.

 

[Shakermaker]

I particularly liked Shaker's classical music.

Cool thanks. Here's some more:

Gustav Mahler, 5th Symphony, 4th movement 'Adagietto, Sehr Langsam'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOo8QoJEE6I

Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto in D Major, 2nd movement 'Adagio'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkIULqYxiPU

Max Bruch, Kol Nidrei

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yffdAXL4XY