Re: GG & analytic/creative tasks

[james langager <jlangage@d.umn.edu>]

I've been thinking about music in general a lot lately. I've noticed two
general categories. the immediate aesthetics, and the story tellers. as in
composers. the immediate aesthetics would be mainly classical people like
mozart and schubert and so forth. and the story tellers would be the
romantics and the contemporaries, like Rach and Chopin and prokofiev and
whoever. many of them seem to fall right smack dab in the middle or to
either side. the main idea, though is that some seem more ethereal. the
don't show much emotion really, but one can start a mozart concerto from
any where and it will be immediately pleasing, but Rach peices are like
journies, and you have to start at the beginning. I can never concertrate
on other tasks when listining to the "story tellers". mozart, however
helps me to an extreme. when writing lit papers, I find myself formulating
the coming paragraphs will writing any given sentence. If I ever listen to
Rachmaninoff while doing homework or whatnot, I'll unconciously stop doing
what I'm doing and listen to the music. I'll retain my attention around
twenty minutes later. weird. if any of you haven't discovered Rach, you
must.

my favorite piano concertos:

Rachmaninoff's second and third

Chopin's first and second. 



			-Jon