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Urgent! Recommend a classical piece to listen to ;-)

Hi all,

Lets all recommend a classical piece to each other to listen to. I recommend "Canon" by "Johann Pachelbel". What is your recommendation?

Cheers,
Behi

Tags: classical, johann, music, pachelbel

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Permalink Reply by Bill on August 5, 2008 at 11:57am: I love Pachelbel's Canon in D. I am a big fan of the Fugues since they reflect the world I want to live in... one where we all take part and make something bigger and greater than the individual.

In that flavour, I'd suggest Bach's Cello Suite #1 and Ravel's Bolero. All three pieces are great for writing software to.

Another favorite, although a bit bolder, is Orf's Carmina Burana. It's a lot of fun to sing along with. Really rocks!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Phillips on January 26, 2009 at 11:04pm: Commenting on "All three pieces are great for writing software to."

I know this is off the main subject a bit (NPI), but when I was in college I used to listen to Devo when I was coding. It just seemed to fit.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael Levin on January 27, 2009 at 7:29am: NPI(?) Does that mean not plugged in? I remember listening to "We are Devo" back at University of Houston in the 70's at reprehensible volume. And, fishing printouts out of the trash at the Computing Center trying to figure out how to correct my punchcards and get my Fortran 77 code to run on the Vax 11/780 mainframe.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ellen Bush on January 27, 2009 at 2:13pm: Hi, I meant to reply to this and instead replied to the first post. I just simply added another good classical suggestion to listen to. I assume you took some lessons from your mom. Do you still play? I think you are plugged in no matter what style of music you enjoy but that, of course, would be a matter of opinion.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Carol McDonald on August 5, 2008 at 12:13pm: The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni in original Italian) is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The work has been recorded on numerous occasions.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by bob on August 5, 2008 at 12:43pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9to1auUNTk
My favorite acoustic version of Pachelbels Cannon.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Scott Tucker on August 5, 2008 at 4:36pm: I am going with an Argentinean composer named Astor Piazzolla and his piece
Ave Maria. He wrote classical music with a touch of Tango.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael Hauser on August 5, 2008 at 5:24pm: Even bolder? "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" by John Adams is a quick introduction to his minimalist style. Adams is a leading contemporary American classical composer who happens to live a few blocks away from me in Berkeley. I ran into him at a garage sale a few years ago - at his house!

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Permalink Reply by Behrang Saeedzadeh on August 10, 2008 at 9:13am: Hi Frank,

I wanted to listen to your performances and buy some of the tracks but looks like that page is not on their web site anymore. Any ideas what's happened to it?

Looks like nowadays CS students are not as much into the music as they used to be, which is a Bad Thing: http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:rxZra6BuCNEJ:tex.loria.fr/hist...

Here's the relevant paragraph:

Knuth: There is a very profound change that I can't account for. In the 70s, the majority of our students were very interested in music. The first thing we'd ask them when they came in was "What instrument do you play?" We had lots of chamber groups and so on. Now almost none of the students are interested in music. I don't know if it's because a different kind of people are enrolling in computer science, or because it's true of all today's students, or what. If you ask computer science students now what their hobby is, the chances are most of them will say "Bicycling". I recently had one who played a harmonica, but there were almost no musicians in the group.

Have you noticed the same thing?

By the way, I think if you put your recordings on iTunes, it will be accessible to a much larger audience.

Cheers,
Behi; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Behrang Saeedzadeh on August 6, 2008 at 6:34am: Fantastic! I also like to listen to classical pieces
when I am coding.

Vivaldi's 4 Seasons is also great. I have listened to
that probably a thousand times. I was also a Mozart
addict... it all started with Symphony No. 40 of course ;-)

Carmina Burana is epical :-) I don't know what the lyrics
mean but nevertheless I enjoy listening to it!

Thanks for the recommendations! I will try to find
the ones I have not listened to. I think that will keep
me busy for a week or so!

Frank, Bells of the Night was very beautiful and
nostalgic I might add.

Cheers,
Behi; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Carla Van Arnam on August 8, 2008 at 7:51pm: One of the most moving pieces I've heard is Arvo Part" (umlaut over the a) Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten. (Another minimalist)

Carla; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ellen Bush on January 20, 2009 at 10:11pm: Hi Everyone, I have many I could recommend since I teach piano but the one I'll recommend today is Debussy's Suite Bergamasque which includes Clair de Lune. Happy listening.; ▶ Reply to This

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