Survey, 1999
An attempt to identify a central cultural repertory of a music population
(namely 14 graduate music students at ASU):
NOTE: The "x" conotates the number of votes for a particular item.
1. Two or three of the greatest WEAM works:
Anon: Gregorian Chant Bach: Art of Fugue B minor Mass
Bach:
- Brandenburg Concertoes x
- St. Matthew's Passion x
- Well Tempered Clavier
Beethoven: 3rd [symp] xxx
- #5 symp xx
- 9th [symp] xxx
- symphonies
Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique
Bernstein: West Side Story
Debussy: Estampie suite for piano
Handel: Messiah
Liszt: b minor sonata
Mozart: Requiem
Strauss: Death & Transfiguration
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring xx
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
The Ring
2. Two of the greatest composers of WEAM:
- Bach xxxxxxxx
- Beethoven xxxxxxxxx
- Brahms
- Debussy
- Mozart
- Palestrina
- Reich (with comment, does he count)
- Schoenberg
- Stravinsky x
3. Two recordings/performers you would take to a deserted island:
- 300 yrs of guitar/Bannelo Passion/Va
- Piczzolla Marinda BA/Piczzolla
- Britten Quartet/?
- Bach Well Tempered/
- Beethoven 9 Symps/
- Japanese Popular Songs/Globe
- Japanese automation "Totoro"/?
- ? Candid/Mingus
- Sp Gop;p/Keita (djembe)
- Dovrak Symp 9/
- Time for marimba/Miki
- Blue Train/Coltrane
- Turnstiles/Billy Joel
- Kind of Blue/Miles Davis
- Bach Goldberg Var./Glenn Gould
- Bernsteirn West Side Story
- Crash/Dana Matthews Band
- Bach Well-Tempered/Riechter
- Faur* Requiem/London Symp ?
- Chopin Pa Concert in F/
- Liszt Liensetraume #3/
- Beethoven 5&7/Wiener Philharmonic
- Phis Slip Stitch & Pass
- Debussy Estampe/Alexis Weissenberg
- Carnatic music-any
4. Most representative genres:
- Baroque suites Concerto xxx
- Lieder
- Opera xx
- Organ
- Piano music?
- Pop music
- Sonata
- Symphony xxxxxxxx
- ?Quartet