Will listening to excessive classical music make one crazy?

Question

As opposed to pop music? Will it cause the mind and spirit to become a bit despondent or will some pieces give a 'high'. Please guide as i am a greenhorn about music. Thanks!

Answer 1

It depends on what "kind" of classical music you're listening to, I guess. There's classical, romantic and there's this crazy impressionistic stuff that sounds like it was improvised... not to mention these creepy composers like Stockhausen and Berlioz...

Compared to pop music, however, I guess it all depends on your threshold for certain kinds of sound. Most people would find orchestral music ambient and relaxing, whilst finding pop music grating and primitive, since it's built up on this basic rhythmic formula and is often not as complex as the "classical" stuff....

Bear in mind that "classical" music is sort-of the foundation and jumping point of pretty much the rest of the music we all listen to today...

Answer 2

Do you mean that the music is excessive or that the listening is excessive??

I'm not aware of any classical music that is excessive -- in any event that would be a value judgement.

But if you mean "listening *excessively* to classical music", well then, the question is how do you determine what excessive is?

And please explain how listening to classical music would make the mind and spirit to become despondent (as opposed to listening to say, Kurt Cobain)? I think you have some serious misperceptions about classical music.

We listen to the music to appreciate it's beauty. Yes it affects us emotionally -- but the range of of expression is so much more vast than with any other music I can think of. It is multi-faceted, and that is it's appeal. I like rock, I like pop, jazz, but I love classical. I like cheeseburgers, but I'd prefer a nice filet. I think that sums it up.

There is no excessive.

Answer 3

I would doubt it, have been listening to Classical Music for the past 30 odd years and no effect yet.
I quite often get moved and a 'high' by a number of pieces played. And when I hear the modern stuff coming out of some cars and headphones today, I do wonder about musical ability with some of these pop groups.

Answer 4

Excesses are bad always. And your question is not an easy one. To begin with, who is defining the excess in your case?
If you listen to classical music 24 hours per day, it is maniac but the music is not the cause as a dependency such as this would indicate that you have some problem that pushes you to seek refuge in the music. ..if such was the case. If you make something (classical music, rock, sex, whatever) your sole reason for living, or your only purpose in life, you lack something else.

Answer 5

no-if you really get into it, you will feel what music can really be. I don't have as much respect for pop music because it is written to be marketable. Of course every genre has its marketable pieces, though. Classical gives the mind and spirit a chance to decide how to feel, instead of being told to be angry and why or that you should be sad cuz your girl left you. classical incites a response from within you. Your reaction--if you like a piece--will be drawn from your life's experience and with the emotion related to them and yes, you can respond euphorically. I understand what makes pop music so widely preferred is the ability of one to relate to the topic/music. But it is too contrived for my taste sometimes. This is only my opinion. Take it for what you will.

Answer 6

Listening to classical music will not make you crazy (unless you already were). Listening to any music shouldn't make you crazy, ever, no matter how much you listen to it (unless you take the lyrics of some rap/hip-hop to heart...that's not good). I personally am a very musical person, I always have to have some noise around, whether it is music, humming, singing, or whatever. So that jibberjabber about needing quiet is not necessarily true (and excessive silence has been proven to drive one crazy: solitary confinement in prisons).

Answer 7

Quite the reverse.

Answer 8

I have heard the effect is similar to acid.