{"id":5815,"date":"2013-08-22T14:03:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T14:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:36:06","slug":"influential-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/influential-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Influential Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having written posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2013\/08\/influential-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influential non-fiction books<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2012\/08\/two-lists-of-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influential fiction books<\/a>, I thought it interesting to list pieces of music that have&nbsp; influenced me. To start with, I&#8217;ve confined myself initially to western art music (aka &#8220;classical&#8221; music). Jazz and world music to come in due course. The music is listed in alpha order of composer surname.  Some pieces were introduced to me by friends, whom I thank with a Hat Tip (HT).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adams: Phrygian Gates (HT: RH)<\/li>\n<li>Arriaga: String Quartets<\/li>\n<li>Arriaga: Symphony<\/li>\n<li>Bach: Double Concerto for Violin<\/li>\n<li>Bach: Piano Concerto #1, BWV1052<\/li>\n<li>Bach: St. Matthew Passion<\/li>\n<li>Bach: St. John Passion<\/li>\n<li>Bach: Mass in B Minor<\/li>\n<li>Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier<\/li>\n<li>Bach: Cantatas<\/li>\n<li>Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor<\/li>\n<li>Bach: Partitas and Sonatas for solo violin<\/li>\n<li>CPE Bach: Magnificat<\/li>\n<li>Beethoven: Piano Sonatas<\/li>\n<li>Beethoven: Symphonies 3, 5 and 9<\/li>\n<li>Beethoven: Piano Concertos<\/li>\n<li>Beethoven: Piano Quartets<\/li>\n<li>Beethoven: Piano Trios<\/li>\n<li>Beethoven: Violin Concerto<\/li>\n<li>Bernstein: Overture to Candide (HT: DUJ)<\/li>\n<li>Binge: Elizabethan Serenade<\/li>\n<li>Cage: Music for prepared piano<\/li>\n<li>Cherubini: String Quartets<\/li>\n<li>Chopin: Nocturnes<\/li>\n<li>Chopin: Preludes Op. 28 (HT: KM)<\/li>\n<li>Debussy: Preludes<\/li>\n<li>Farrenc: Piano Quartets<\/li>\n<li>Farrenc: The Symphonies<\/li>\n<li>Feldman: Five Pianos<\/li>\n<li>Feldman: Triadic Memories<\/li>\n<li>Glass: Koyaanisqatsi<\/li>\n<li>Glass: Symphony for 8 (Cello Octet)<\/li>\n<li>Handel: Messiah<\/li>\n<li>Haydn: Sturm und Drang Symphonies<\/li>\n<li>Haydn: The Creation<\/li>\n<li>Haydn: String Quartets<\/li>\n<li>Hummel: Trumpet Concerto<\/li>\n<li>Ligeti:  Etudes (HT: EK and AD) <\/li>\n<li>Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King<\/li>\n<li>McPhee: Tabu Tabuhan<\/li>\n<li>Meale: Clouds Now and Then<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: The String Symphonies #7-12<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: Magnificat<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: Octet<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: String Quartets and Quintets<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: Piano Trios and Quartets<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: Overture to a Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: Elijah<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D minor<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: Concerto for Piano and Violin in D minor<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: The Symphonies<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn: Songs without Words<\/li>\n<li>Montague: Piano Concerto<\/li>\n<li>Mozart: Last 3 Symphonies<\/li>\n<li>Mozart: Requiem<\/li>\n<li>Mozart: The String Quartets<\/li>\n<li>Nishimura: <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2013\/02\/akira-nishimura-bird-heterophony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bird Heterophony<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nyman: Songs for Tony<\/li>\n<li>Ore: Codex Temporis<\/li>\n<li>Orff: Carmina Burana<\/li>\n<li>Penberthy: Saxophone Concerto<\/li>\n<li>Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 (HT: AD)<\/li>\n<li>Reich: Nagoya Marimbas (HT: JG)<\/li>\n<li>Reich: Music for 18 Musicians<\/li>\n<li>Alvidas Remesa: Stigmata (HT: KM)<\/li>\n<li>Riley: In C<\/li>\n<li>Roman: Drottningholm Music (Music for a Royal Wedding)<\/li>\n<li>Rzewski:  The People united will never be Defeated (HT: AD)<\/li>\n<li>Schumann: Dichterliebe (HT: PP)<\/li>\n<li>Schumann: The Symphonies<\/li>\n<li>Sculthorpe: <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2010\/03\/mr-sculthorpe-please-call-your-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sun Music III<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano and Trumpet<\/li>\n<li>Shostakovich: Incidental Music for <em>Hamlet<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues for Piano<\/li>\n<li>Stockhausen: Stimmung (HT: LM)<\/li>\n<li>Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring<\/li>\n<li>Takemitsu: A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden<\/li>\n<li>Tchaikovsky: Symphonies #4 and #5<\/li>\n<li>Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto<\/li>\n<li>ten Holt:  Canto Ostinato (HT: AD)<\/li>\n<li>Vanhal: The Symphonies<\/li>\n<li>Wagner: Prelude to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg<\/li>\n<li>Xenakis: Metastaseis<\/li>\n<li>Xenakis: Pithoprakta.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having written posts on influential non-fiction books and on influential fiction books, I thought it interesting to list pieces of music that have&nbsp; influenced me. To start with, I&#8217;ve confined myself initially to western art music (aka &#8220;classical&#8221; music). Jazz and world music to come in due course. The music is listed in alpha order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,85,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concats","category-mendelssohn","category-music","p1","y2013","m08","d22","h14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5815"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12528,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions\/12528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}