Vivaldi concerto for violin and cello6/14/2023 Unlike "Cocaine", which is a distinctive song title that pretty much anyone knows was composed by J. Indeed, that's probably the name of the track on the recording. Allegro vivo" is a "song" title in a current Apple Music playlist. It use to be that the descriptor, for example: "Double Concerto for Violin and Cello: lii. The actual piece or movement being streamed is more or less properly identified. On further use, I note that one aspect of playlists has improved a little. I am just dismayed that Apple, one of the richest and most innovative companies in the history of the World, can't find even one person who understands the important differences amongst various genres of music. A search on "Gotterdammerung" for example yields the actual Wagner opera and not a page of miscellaneous pop recordings that have little or nothin to do with Wagner, or opera.ĭon't get me wrong: I listen to and love a wide variety of pop, rock, jazz, World, etc. This ignores the fact that all the movements of a classical composition are actually a whole narrative that loses meaning and context when broken, separated and thrown together randomly.Ĭlearly, Apple has not hired anyone who actually understands classical music but just people who view it in the paradigm of pop or jazz albums that are indeed collections of "songs" that can generally stand alone as independent pieces.Ģ) On the positive side, if one avoids the ignorant playlists, it is quite a bit easier to find music by an actual composer or by the name of a composition. It's like reading chapter 3 of one book followed by chapter 12 of another book etc. The people at Apple Music simply view each part of any complex classical composition as a separate, independent "song". One is presented with the third movement of this followed by the first movement of that, and so on. 1) This app retains the utterly ignorant-of-classical-music method of assembling playlists that was so infuriating with Apple Music.
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