So. ... What *ROCKS your boat?!!

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& ... WHAT music means - to YOU?!!! - Comments = welcome!

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It's evening,champagne's on ice and your beloved calls for ...
... SHRUBBERY!!!!!!

Seriously, gotta LOVE 21st CENTURY; mosquito nets, home printers, pizza, MP3 and headphones!!!!!

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Hey, some already know my view - great, better or shitty are adjectives that for me -

- HAVE *NO* PLACE IN MUSIC - whatsoever;

music is music, just like a comment is a comment and a book is a book:

means of expression, LANGUAGE of a THOUGHT - and as such can NOT be deemed ''better'' or ''above the rest;''

only ONE amongst MANY - different voices,

from beating of two sticks together to 1000 head orchestra - it doesn't matter -

as long as it's a combination of sounds, and silence ... MAGIC!

Now, to understand it, to love and interpret it ... That's the fun bit!

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So, in order to *get* the BIG PICTURE - it's only fair to quickly introduce music of folks who do NOT  

fall into usual categories of super-known and ultra-commercialised composers;

you see, at least around 18th century (Europe), just about every household had musicians, and as far as composers go,

there were literally THOUSANDS and all over the place en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_… therefore - they should have their voice here as well.

Here's a few I'm researching right now + samples ... And this is just the ULTRA-OLD MUSIC!

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<sub>Perfectly intimate discovery of the decade: Herr FRIEDEMANN BACH!!!!

... GRACEFUL Friede: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz84dW… CHEEKY Friede: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxB6aq… Friede with CHERRY on top: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i09iwd… & TOTALLY PISSED OFF Friede: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8vF7W…
Special goes to one Pancrace Royer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKssI2… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC5dDl… who together with Alessandro SCARLATTI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5hAe8… & Luis MARCHAND: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oepgNW… & Élisabeth JACQUET: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5kQeQ…

- pretty much dethrones him Ach, ze delicious 'ARPSYCHÓRD musyk!!!

... So that's where the young one got it all from! SERIOUSLY OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE on a STICK ---> of Domenico SCARLATTI's  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ObLV… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDQTg4… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHITrZ…

........... AND THE REST OF THE HAND PICKED BUNCH:

Benedetto MARCELLO - wait 'till he opens the theme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L-Z79… - lay back and enjoy!
Arcangelo CORELLI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPGO4… - pretty much a baroque heavey metal! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGET78… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym6gv2…  

Beautiful find!!! Jacques DUPHLY: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwM8xL… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr4cj4… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNMN56…

Jacobus GALLUS CARNIOLUS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEVO2z… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=fykgMV… (crispy sound but perfect tempo!) & www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_siUi… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFBk1M… & Cristóbal de MORALES: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLPgDL…

Josquin BASTON: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu8uAk… & Diego ORTIZ: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMJWBq… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ7zhy… & Cornelis BOSCOOP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cfe9c…

Florian Leopold GASSMANN: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxqFxb… Václav PICHL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIljCl… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsNJnV… Carlo GRAZIANI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZyDBp…

Arvo PÄRT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5ghhm… & hypnotic Steve REICH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIn87A… & Tobias HUME: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgOSaI… (WOW!!!)

Magnificent Dietrich BUXTEHUDE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2egC7… & František Xaver RICHTER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ccrp1… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr-OHu… & Johan Helmich ROMAN: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu0xZV…

Tony PAGANELLI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gZeSE… & Tony VIVALDI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDQNi… & Tony SALIERI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-dwCG… & Tony ROSETTI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1TM4e… & Toni LOTTI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pApJX9…

... FRANCESCO SALIERI (yes, there were two Salieri brothers!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xjs3J… Élisabeth JACQUET de LA GUERRE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbW5Ep… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdKx7o…

as if from a dream: Jakob FROBERGER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI5pB0… & George HANDEL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiEyfN… (Keith Jarrett's rendition of Handel's Suites - recommended!) & Pietro LOCATELLI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEsmCC… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIRITf…

John TAVENER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRl3qS… & José Maurício NUNES GARCIA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbjGmW… & Tomas Luis De VICTORIA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=akMLrO…

... JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH BACH. No matter what anyone says - HIS MUSIC is JOLLY and of good cheer!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZriCcQ… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym6gv2…

... Mozart was NOT alone and MANY composers wrote VARIATIONS on *Twinkle Little Star* thing ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8zmRi… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=biSeQg…

Henri-Joseph RIGEL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtVMP3… & Jean-Marie LECLAIR: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJwnsy…

Georg ALBRECHTSBERGER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZANmM… Previously attributed to SeBACHstian: www.youtube.com/watch?v=59IrXE… & Chevalier de SAINT-GEORGES: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVwcau… & František BENDA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlw3bx… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVp1nz…

Nicola PORPORA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cer6Ds… & Andrea LUCHESI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWSF4… & Ignaz Joseph PLEYEL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJgzv-…

Gregor WERNER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQWHEm… & Giovanni Battista CIRRI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gurnbl… & Ludwig KREBS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYY3uq…

Johan Joachim AGRELL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRhFt… & Carl Ditters von DITTERSDORF: www.youtube.com/watch?v=30g8Al… & Friedrich KUHLAU - brilliant flute trio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnnMtc…

NEW as it gets: Muzio CLEMENTI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8aErb… (completely meditative mixture - cheers to Beethoven for spotting it!)

Tarquinio MERULA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuA5kN… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiOX8v… & Antonín REICHENAUER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa55oC… & Michele MASCITTI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akm6AH… & Georg Christoph WAGENSEIL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w1Oyi… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0iFWh…

gorgeous music by Johann Friedrich FASCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO9jcj… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=x49Hln… & Francesco DURANTE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkk-00…

Francesco GEMINIANI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohdm55… & Baptist VANHAL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt-bNf… & Ferdinand RIES: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zilLT4…

Georg BÖHM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLi1fO… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaK_kE… & Girolamo FRESCOBALDI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HMTDj… & William BYRD: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUMQbS…


Andrea GABRIELI, Giovanni GABRIELI, Josef SEGER, Dismas ZELENKA,

Claude BALBASTRE, Antonio CALDARA, Pierluigi da PALESTRINA,

Jean-Baptiste LULLY, Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER, François COUPERIN,

Luigi CHERUBINI, Luigi BOCCHERINI, François d'AGINCOURT, Willibald GLUCK,

Fanny MENDELSSOHN, Clara SCHUMANN, Jo Jo FUX, Philipp TELEMANN,

Adolph HASSE, Martin KRAUS, Tomaso ALBINONI, Jean-Philippe RAMEAU, Antonio SOLER,

Giuseppe GAZZANIGA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wegWGr… & Johann PACHELBEL ( Pachelbel-RANT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQ… & of course: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1VNWj… ) - HARPSICHORD & ORGAN works ROCK! --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1m45d… & theme & variations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bof_0y…

... Speaking of Pachelbel here's Henry PURCEL's almost identical (but more complex) version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Xgt7…

Leonardo LEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=50LKcm… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXgKag… & Francesco Maria VERACINI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3mUKG… & Niccolò JOMMELLI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT6Oa1…

Friedrich II *der Grosse*: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u59fam… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpSaWe… & beauty of Giuseppe Baldassare SAMMARTINI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXJcDv… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRaaqS…

... SeBACHstian: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l75X-S… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2j-fr… & Heinrich SCHMELZER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbJIdF… & Franz von BIBER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWb5-l… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLjqm5…

Georg MUFFAT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vRjFp… Antoine FORQUERAY: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fxWsV… Jean-Baptiste FORQUERAY: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-LYVP… & František Xaver BRIXI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdVCqo… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xynam…

Giovanni SANCES: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi95cO… Claudio MONTEVERDI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vfkZR… and Leonardo VINCI (*1690): www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IUOtq…

Sublime duo: Johann Peter KELLNER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHpWo… (father) Johann Christoph KELLNER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVKZA4… (son)

amorous Romanus HOFFSTETTER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqPQKl… (previously attributed to J. Haydn) & Christian CANNABICH www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVHEE… & the saccharin sweet MOZART specimens

Marcos PORTUGAL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eou6y0… Federico MOMPOU: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr89Rr… and a whole BUNCH of Anon's ... (= *by Anonymous!*)</sub>

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Oh - *breathes in*

- That's over 100 composers right here!!!!

SO. MUCH. MUSIC!!! - ... HOW CAN WE NOT SING WITH THEM?!!!!!


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