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Best music for driving in heavily snowy conditions… Holst's the Planets, but especially Saturn. Not sure why, but it gives me exactly what I need to focus my attention.
Best music for chugging through this huge pile of work… Vivaldi. Any Vivaldi with strings. Upbeat enough to keep me moving, and there's something else in there that really helps the work part of my brain work on autopilot.
Best music for driving in heavily snowy conditions… Holst's the Planets, but especially Saturn. Not sure why, but it gives me exactly what I need to focus my attention.
Best music for chugging through this huge pile of work… Vivaldi. Any Vivaldi with strings. Upbeat enough to keep me moving, and there's something else in there that really helps the work part of my brain work on autopilot.
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Thu, December 11, 2008 - 4:42 PMBest classical music for falling asleep too: Boccherini (especially the guitar and string quintets) -
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Thu, December 11, 2008 - 9:24 PMI can't imagine it Robert. For me I start working his music out in my head and my hands twitch (guitar part). LOL!
Arvo Pärt, Eno, Josquin, not because they're boring and repetitious, far from it, but because slow, steady, progressive, harmonic structure weaves the same web that dreams are made of. Actually I like to start my mornings with them as well.
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Thu, December 11, 2008 - 10:46 PMthis is gonna sound weird....
but doing homework, theory or writing papers, Philip Glass -
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Fri, December 12, 2008 - 11:14 AMYea I noticed that too once Nadia....that the minimalists were good for doing homework too?
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Thu, December 11, 2008 - 10:47 PMno, I know what you mean about the planets. it has just enough stuff to keep me focused every time, but i know it so well i dont need to put my full attention to it. but my favorite is still venus and jupiter... can't help it... i'm a horn player -
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Thu, December 11, 2008 - 11:16 PMNadia you beat me to it, if I'm trying to write I put on Phillip Glass -Heroes sym .Driving in the car Saint Saens, Africa sym. -
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Fri, December 12, 2008 - 11:00 AMI just found Philip Glass a few months ago on pandora... and was like golly, how did I never hear this before? it's gorgeous! I can see most of the groups I play in not doing it though.... -
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Fri, December 12, 2008 - 11:13 AMScaring the shit out of my neighbors....Webern -
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Fri, December 26, 2008 - 7:11 AMChristmas: Christopher Hogwood's Messiah. -
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Mon, December 29, 2008 - 7:51 AMHave to disagree with ya, JM… In my opinion, best music for Christmas is the Nutcracker.
Been listening to that every Christmas since I was… 7? It just isn't Christmas without it. And the best part? No words, no singy. I get enough of the pukey singy crap at every store and restaurant every day after Halloween. I prefer the un-singy Christmas music. -
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Mon, December 29, 2008 - 1:10 PMI like to get up early in the summer and putter around in the garden or just sit outside early in the summermornings with Grieg in the background, Peer Guint suite.!!!! Love it, pure and absolute summermorning perfection! -
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Tue, December 30, 2008 - 2:32 PMAch. Nutcracker. Gets stuck in your head. If something has to be stuck in my head for a month (or, as you suggest, two), and least give me something I can sing aloud... otherwise, I go around humming. -
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Tue, December 30, 2008 - 2:43 PMBest music for getting stuck in your head… Eine Kleine Nachtmusic.
I'll find myself humming this even when I haven't actually heard it in months. I get about 4 notes in, stop and try to figure out what is… Oh, it's that again. -
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Wed, February 11, 2009 - 6:55 PMThje best music for working on clocks is classic country - bob Wills, Tex Ritter, Sons of The Pioneers - That sort of thing. You don't have to pay attention to it, but if you happen to for an instant, it is loud enough to hear without having to crank it up, and it is simple enough that you don't lose track of the work at hand.
The best music for getting stuck in my head varies all over the freaking map - one day it will be a Mozart flute concerto, the next, Ceasar Frank's Perpetual Mobile. Sometimes it is something as annoying as the opening to Eine Kline, and others just The Girl From Leaping Enema (Girl From Ipanema), which I also find pretty annoying.
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Mon, February 16, 2009 - 2:49 PMI beg to differ. I cannot have Christmas without Amal and The NIght Visitors. Oh, and Christmas At Boot's Place - great jazz with the late Tommy Newsome and his sextet playing backup behiind James "Boot's" Randolph. Tommy plays a bari sax solo on WIsh You A Merry Christmas that just takes it apart, and then puts it all back together again. -
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Mon, February 16, 2009 - 2:57 PMGood choices, but those aren't classical? At least the Christmas at Boot's Place sounds like not classical music… what with the We Wish You…
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Mon, May 11, 2009 - 8:27 PMWe have done a lot of long distance driving lately and I loaded up the Mp3 player with about 10 cd's but the one I liked most was St.Saens Africa Sym.
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