Piano "songs" like Bella's Lullaby?

The problem with your suggestion, is that most of these questioners just want the music, preferably with the letters written in. They have no interest for anything else and don't want to be 'set in the right direction'. They think that anything played on an acoustic instrument = classical. If the person is genuinely interested in discovering more about actual classical music and shows that he/she is sincere in the question, I'm more than happy to suggest some pieces which they might like. But if it's the other type of question (the "Gimme now, FREE! I don't want any of those boring rubbish by Shopan or Shubert or Moatzard, I only want songs that are nice and gentle like Yiruma!" type), well then... We used to be nicer about it. But honestly if you see 10 of these questions everyday, worded almost identically and with the same "Gimme the sheets right now! I don't care if it's classical or not, it's played on a piano, therefore it is a piano SONG and all of you shouldn't be dissing me for calling it 'classical'!" type of mentality, you would lose it sooner or later as well.

Turn it around. Suppose someone went into the pop music category and asked for rock songs like the Pathetique Sonata. It would be quite reasonable for the contributors in that category to say that: 1. The Pathetique Sonata is not rock. 2. The Pathetique Sonata is not a song. 3. It is unappealing to some rock music fans. 4. Please re-post in another cateory. I hear what you are saying about taking a lemon and making lemonade. We could give a long list of musical compositions which give us the cold chills. But keep in mind that the questions are confined to classical compositions like Bella's Lullaby. And we don't know of any such animal--at least I don't. We also get requests for music like Au clair de lune, music like O Fortuna, and music like many other compositions which really are classical compositions. The only answer we can give is that Debussy is the only composer who is allowed to sound like Debussy and Orff is the only composer who is allowed to sound like Orff. At one time, there was a composer named Guiseppi Martucci. The public hated his music because it sounded like Brahms. But it got performed anyway, because he had the good sense to make friends with Toscanini.

It's very simple there is no classical music like 'Bella's Lullaby' and it is unlikely that these brainless, tasteless teens want to hear 'real' music. After all, they have the attention span of a gnat so even the shortest Chopin prelude would be beyond their mental capabilities.

Hey, Its just the fact that as soon as you mention anything to do with Twilight, people assume you are one of those crazy fans that wallpaper your room with Robert Pattinson's face and cry over the fact that he isn't real. It's been stigmatized! Which I find really sad, because twilight has gotten people our age back into reading a book instead of watching telly or being on the computer, but people just have to dis that. We know that there are people out there that are crazily obsessed, but saying that all twilight fans are like that is like saying all muslims are terrorists. NOT TRUE! People just enjoy enclosing others into boxes. Now! Down to business! Well there are a few good pianists that I've found recently, they aren't classical either, but the sound of their music is just as beautiful so here they are! Yann Tiersen.... Wrote and performed all the music for Amelie if you've seen it. Yiruma.... River Flows in You was what heaps of fans wanted as Bella's Lullaby and personally I think it's better than her actual lullaby. Aaron Zigman....Wrote most of the music for the Notebook, really gentle sounding music.. Main Title is a favourite. And of course there's Carter Burwell, who wrote Bella's Lullaby. Generally any songs from these people are good, most of their songs are gentle and soft. All else fails you could always get Clair de Lune by Debussy. =) Go Twilight!

Other than this one subject, and maybe a few others, you will find here what you said you would expect, helpful, knowing people happy to guide even the most uninformed initiate and even tailor a response to what we think that person would most readily find interesting or exciting. You can see that even the kindest and most patient of these have just 'lost it' regarding the request, and most importantly, the brat-like petulant and whiny behavior the vast majority of these youngsters exhibit. I have steered them toward 'new age' music, which again, many of us do not care for, or even better, do not believe in. I've mentioned George Winston, even though I do not care for it I think it a million cuts up from the dreaded 'lullaby,' while remaining accessible to the person making the request. It is a bit like damning all of one culture for the behavior of a few. All we see here, in great numbers on a virtually daily basis, are the snippy sort who want another 'squishy' bit of fluff to accompany their 'squishy' feelings - which is another aspect most of us believe antithetical to the purpose of good music. Ninety percent of these want another lullaby, almost identical to the first, or another Clair de Lune, of which Debussy wrote only one. Hope that explains it, and 'us' a bit. best regards, petr b.

Actually I have the two types of answers : http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Arj1haGycyC2URYwCzxyfTHty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090606034646AAi6rBw&show=7#profile-info-3a1zJwHCaa http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApHVM99qR.SLgqb5gspwrprsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090620130303AArJ5Rs&show=7#profile-info-AA12285386 It depends, if someone is really willing to discover some good and advanced classical music, I give him my advice to get over Yiruma & Bella, and give him my best music suggestions as a beginning with the classical music. But if someone is insisting on only asking about rubbish music, unwilling to improve his taste and music understanding, so......so he deserves it!

Kiss the rain by Yiruma hehe.