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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] steady state work music: any suggestions?
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:46:28 -0500

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
Justin Hahn wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I like ambient music, so I'll check
out that website. I'd never thought of classical, but I'll have to try it
out.

I don't know what your temperament is but you want quiet and thoughtful,
try Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven chamber music, trios, quartets, quintets for strings and other instruments with strings. You will probably like these right off. Modern conterparts would include Stravinsky, especially Shostakovich chamber music, quartets and quintets (I should include these with the classical group, Ravel & Debussy, Satie, zHindeemith, Honnegger, the Finnish composer Aarvo Part,
Bartok (SQ's and trios for piano and strings. For ultra modern
Cage, Schoenberg, Berg and Feldman - you may like these. Then on to current works by Basinski and Hecker -- bordering on the ambient, freeform, strange & dreamlike. Modern American composers like Barber, Copeland, Schumann, Diamond, Ades: Tevot and Harris are exceptional.

For samples of the above tune into Pandora internet radio and create playlists around each of the composers I listed. Its free for a limited number of hours each month.




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