Klarinet Archive - Posting 000781.txt from 2001/09

From: "Daniluk, Bill" <bdaniluk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Bagpipes again
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:04:58 -0400

Is I recall, most of the control group which listened to both samples
preferred the country/bagpipe/bel canto tune...

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
Subject: [kl] Re: Bagpipes again

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:05:26 -0700, Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com> wrote:
>
>Allegheny College of Meadville, PA does not have clarinet or saxophone
>instructors listed on their music department web site (flute, oboe, and
>bassoon instructors are listed).
>
>However, they do have an instructor for the bagpipes, one: Patrick Regan,
>B.F.A.

This brings to mind a piece from National Public Radio several years ago.
Seems there was a group of music professionals who conducted some extensive
surveys to figure out what it was that people liked and disliked in music.
After completing the research, they then tried to develop composite
recordings
that would, essentially, represent "music most people like" and "music most
people hate". The "like" recording was a youngish female voice singing a
pop
love song against a backdrop of guitars with a strong drum beat -- exactly
the
kind of thing you'd hear from a top 40 radio station. Early Britney Spears.

The "hate" recording was much more interesting. It consisted of a shrill
operatic soprano, warbling some sappy country lyrics with a heavy vibrato,
accompanied by bagpipes and tuba. It was outrageous.

--
- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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