# Anyone else enjoy listening to classical music?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 23, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-enjoy-listening-to-classical-music/799635 "2017-10-23T15:53:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-enjoy-listening-to-classical-music/799635/41 "2017-10-25T12:57:28Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> AGGGGHHHH! Don’t listen to Art Music as a background to vacuuming. LISTEN to it.

It’s actually when I am am picking up and putting things away, not vacuuming. Stuff that requires attention, but not thought.

Anyway, one thing I’ve noticed is that I generally don’t much care for most pieces the first time I listen to them. I can appreciated bits to them, but the overall composition is largely lost on me. Subsequent listens, however, usually make a peice grow on me, as I pick out different parts and melodies that I missed the first time.

Pop music is usually good for at most 3 or so listens before I am thoroughly bored with it, but classical has enough complexity that I can listen to a piece multiple times (I’ve listened to rach 3 probably a couple hundred times (used to be my cleaning music)) and still notice something new that I hadn’t noticed before.

I think that is part of the reason people don’t get into classical as easily. It takes more effort for each individual piece to understand and appreciate, as opposed to a pop song that you can pretty much know how the whole thing will go after a few bars.

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