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Dutch Classical music always reminds me of Ivan Shishkins's paintings:

https://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=631&q=Ivanov+Shiskhin&oq=Ivanov+Shiskhin&gs_l=img.3...770.4979.0.5249.15.11.0.4.0.0.59.591.11.11.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.61.img..5.10.543.rMeoS0_gA5E#hl=nl&tbm=isch&q=Ivan+Shishkin&spell=1

It is very relaxing, like erring through a huge quiet forest.

The reason I also like Kalinnikov so much, next to his music being beautiful (same goes for Borodin), is that it always conveys these kinds of images to my mind's eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qslHwFCu2sc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmDITHPHm_4 <-(!!!!)
I like it when a music can express some kind of feeling therefore my picks are:

Requiem for a Dream - Clint Mansell

In the House, In a heartbeat - John Murphy

Unkle - Inside (warning, the video contains spoilers for the movie Eight Below)
I really have that sad desolate feeling when listening to Part

truly melancholic, if not outright tragic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gUOiDDbKxI (exerpt from a larger piece)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1CNNf9iU9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqPkE7cxYD8 (idem)

I don't listen to him a lot though, I get carried away by him, and my thoughts end up in pitch black places;
And then I'm not a very happy person by nature to start with...

This stabs right at the most profound depths of my soul ;~;
My favourite music wouldn't lend itself very well to shooting it into space as a representation of mankind's art...

A few examples:

NIN The Closer - Though in reality the whole "The Downward Spiral" album.

Recoil - Drifting - Every by Recoil (Alan Wilder) from "Unsound Methods" onwards.

Moloko - Forever More



But I could live with sending this into space:

Dead Can Dance - Yulunga
on a side note, which composer(s) do you think look really awesome? My favourites in this regard are certainly Mahler and Berlioz (if simply for the haircuts)

https://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&amp;site=imghp&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=hp&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=631&amp;q=Gustav+Mahler&amp;oq=Gustav+Mahler&amp;gs_l=img.3..0l10.1841.5307.0.5582.15.9.1.5.6.0.89.490.9.9.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.61.img..0.15.536.EcNwZj17SGc

[url=https://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=631&q=Gustav+Mahler&oq=Gustav+Mahler&gs_l=img.3..0l10.1841.5307.0.5582.15.9.1.5.6.0.89.490.9.9.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.61.img..0.15.536.EcNwZj17SGc#hl=nl&tbm=isch&q=Hector+Berlioz\&spell=1]https://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=631&q=Gustav+Mahler&oq=Gustav+Mahler&gs_l=img.3..0l10.1841.5307.0.5582.15.9.1.5.6.0.89.490.9.9.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.61.img..0.15.536.EcNwZj17SGc#hl=nl&tbm=isch&q=Hector+Berlioz\&spell=1[/url]

and is it just me, or does young Vermeulen have a resemblance with young Voldemort from the chamber of secrets? :)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9cYPRpYbGdU/TfxqdC0nAUI/AAAAAAAAAmU/ueBJNyZ0I0w/s320/Vermeulen%252C+Matthijs+%25282%2529.jpg

And Schnittkes (o_O) look is PURE GENIUS.

http://www.nmz.de/files/2014-09-magazin-schnittke.jpg
@ Snowkatt:

http://www.8weekly.nl/artikel/2208/de-vergeten-muziek-van-cornelis-dopper-eigen-muziek-laatst.html

http://www.matthijsvermeulen.nl/

http://www.cornelisdopper.nl/

http://www.vn.nl/Standaard-Media-Pagina/Nederlandse-componisten-op-zoek-naar-Mozart.htm

't amusement! Gaat maar wat rondsnollen tussen de verborgen pareltjes ;p
Post edited February 01, 2015 by Vnlr
damn it ever since I heard of "omnipotence" as an answer to "if you could have a wish/superpower" and ever since I heard of "a sentence made up of all knowledge separated by semicolons" as an answer to "if you could get one answer from God about anything" I kind of always want to pick overpowered answers ("send them a single song that is actually every song with a couple minutes of silence between them")

so screw the whole aliens setting, here's some cool video game music (can't do a real informed answer about real music) I just thought up about

guile's theme

bomberman 5 battle theme 2

and the entire soundtrack of super mario world and/or yoshi's island, no wait that's cheating again hum

yoshi island music box

or maybe one random track from the VVVVVV soundtrack

also I think we humans come with a whole complexity of our own as a result of being humans, though that's an elaboration I don't think is worth making here/now
Post edited February 02, 2015 by thiagovscoelho
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion OST from Jeremy Soule:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhOEn7Xl8as
Since the first time I heard it, this song is fascinating me:
Massive Attack - Hymn of the Big Wheel
Sadly germans need an YT unblocker for this song!
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Vnlr: Just wondering;
suppose, they send of a new unmanned space probe of which they are sure it will reach a recently discovered alien civilization at some point in the near future.

They hold a global vote in which everyone can pick up to 3 pieces of music which will be recorded, and put in the probe to represent humanities sublime/unique musical tradition to the aliens.

if you would like to share which three pieces would have your vote if this scenario would occur...?
A more serious entry in this thread as I was sober the last time.

The title of the thread is not the same as the one you ask in the O.P. The music I would ask to be recorded to represent humanity would probably not be my favourite. I do not think I am musically qualified to pick three pieces that represent us and I honestly do not think it could be done. As to my 3 favourite music pieces, let's see...

1- Tommy's Overture, The Who. (Without the vocal part which is important for the Album but is bad for the music piece)
2- Harry Potter's theme music of the first movie, John William.
3- Toccata and Fugue, Bach.

Answers subject to change in the following seconds.
The topic headline is a bit misleading, imho. It's quite a difference what music I like best and what music I'd consider representative for earthlings' musical traditions.
For the former, that's Antestor's album 'The Forsaken'. For the latter, I'd choose something like Beethoven, something traditional Asian, maybe Yayue music and something traditional African, though it would be the hardest part to actually choose something here. And that would leave out both Aborigines and Maori who have both developed independently for long periods but the others are simply higher represented in numbers.
My old man's a dustman suddenly came on last night

quite a surprise