Why do more people not appreciate classical music ?

Answer 1

This is a great question as I was one of those people until one semester I took an elective called Music Appreciation. The instructor educated us on and opened our ears to all kinds of music that I never thought I would have listened to. All the jocks were in that class too because they thought it would be an "easy" A.

Then one day the instructor told us we were going to begin study of classical music. He turned off the lights and classical music began blasting out of the stereo to the beat of a laser light show he had created. It was almost magical. Even the jocks were speechless. That's the day I began to love classical music. Just being exposed to it in a positive manner and really listening gave me an appreciation for it.

Now I listen to it while I fall asleep, when I'm relaxing, and now that I am a teacher I play it for my kids everyday in class while they are working. At first they groaned ... now they get upset if it's not on! lol I think the biggest problem is that it doesn't have "words" and the younger kids are so into the words of a song and what it means that they don't know how to just appreciate really good music - period.

We need to find ways to educate them and introduce them to it and I'll bet a lot more people will be appreciative of it and willing to listen to it.

Answer 2

Although I don't reject lighter genres (and nor did I do it as a child) I became a classical music teacher (as either of my professions).
Here it is my experience in teaching children and adults:
For adults, who didn't receive any (classical) music education as a child (or received some, but the teacher was wrong), it is just a bigger intellectual challenge to receive classical pieces -although there are many "lighter favorites"- than pop music.
And to tell the truth, we modern folk tend to become a little bit easy-going, not to say, sometimes lazy to face challenges like that. If we got used to easier things for entertainment/leisure why would we choose something that seems to us too deep and far in time? We just don't have time for looking up informations about these musical works if we don't understand them for the first time.
That's the reason why it is extremely important to teach music, and shape musical taste at as early an age as it is possible.

Answer 3

Most people think of it is something for old people. They don't take the time to listen to it and hear the actual music. I was brought up in an environment where classical music was never played. I learned to appreciate it later in life when I took the time to really listen to it.

Answer 4

Because taste changed along the years. But I love classical. Maybe that is because I have music lessons since I was a kid, and have to play music of the classical composers.

Answer 5

That's because they don't understand it. Anybody who has studied music develops a much greater appreciation for it. I like most classical music but can't say that I enjoy every single composer. Some I like more than others.

Answer 6

I grew up on classical music. I use to sit in the barn with the Victrola
and play records. They were one sided at that time. My love for classical
music has grown over the years. I also love Baroque music. Something
mystical and enchanting about it. I think that people are more into rock
and heavy metal.

Answer 7

there is, to repeat Del, no reason and effect relationship between intelligence (I.Q.) and appreciation of classical song. there is, besides the fact that a manner of listening it is greater "psychological" than no longer, and which maximum classical song demands if the listener is to get the experience of it. That "psychological" way of listening does not require a genius I.Q. regardless of earlier classical song, the Baroque or Classical eras, the way the song is prepare demands greater listening to the relationships of all the musical activity, melodic and harmonic, and many times following an concept, melodic, motivic, harmonic, it is progressed, or 'tossed approximately' in various techniques. that's a communicate of notes. (As has already been referred to, Jazz demands the comparable form of 'monitoring' if one is to get the experience of it.) less complicated song demands much less lively interest of the listener - a melody, some chords, much less version - all one has to think of of as an occasion could be a individuals song with guitar accompaniment (sometimes a classical piece is greater direct in this way). maximum pop song is in this class of much less complicated and being very today and easily understood - accurately, being song for 'the individuals' via 'the individuals.'. the two pop or classical might nicely be and often is greater complicated and / or direct. usually, although, classical demands greater lively 'monitoring' of musical activities. Even the untrained fan of classical is listening this way, no count if or no longer they're conscious of it or no longer. yet actual I.Q? No. possibly greater knowledgeable human beings have a greater proper inclination to reflexively use their mind, and greater comfortably pursue the 'abstraction' it is maximum classical song. some human beings, extremely extraordinary or widespread, don' preserve or comprehend any form of song! terrific regards.

Answer 8

Personally it bores me because there is no singing. I need to be able to bop along to something or sing to it to enjoy it. I can probably appreciate classical music as an art form but I would not choose to listen to it.

Answer 9

Music functions on many levels, from the basest in which it accompanies adolescent bleating about the glandular condition they call love, to the loftiest that contemplates the place of mankind in the universe.

Music of a more serious nature is eschewed because it does not directly lead to sexual conquest.

Answer 10

because they're not used to listening to classical music they want to fit in so they listen to other music and if someone says classical music sucks they dont even bother trying to listen to it just go by ppl say