Build a Classical CD like a Pop Album (a fun way to waste time)

[hornteacher]

Here's a thought for the Classical fan with a short attention span:  build a CD of Classical music by selecting 14 tracks of music, each track being any Classical piece between 3 to 5 minutes.  Essentially creating a Classical CD of "Singles".  What would be your choices?

[ChamberNut]

   And don't forget, it can't have more than 1 or 2 repetitious themes.   

[PSmith08]

And we can't just nominate Ligeti's Études, books 1 and 2, or Musica ricercata?

[AnthonyAthletic]

Just tune into the UK's Classic FM for 14 tracks, then do it again and again...however many times you want.

That's all they play, its great around Easter time with the Hall of Fame, think of all the albums we Brits get for Free off them every year....marvellous 

[hornteacher]

Here's one I slapped together:

Bach - Two Part Invention in F Major
Bach - Little Fugue in G Minor
Mozart - Marriage of Figaro Overture
Mozart - "Non Piu Andrai"
Mozart - "Der Holle Rache"
Beethoven - Fidelio Overture
Schubert - "Erlkonig"
Schubert - "Gretchen and the Spinning Wheel"
Brahms - Hungarian Dance #5
Dvorak - Slavinic Dance #8
Tchaikovsky - Trepak
Copland - Down A Country Lane
Bernstein - Overture to Candide
Reich - Clapping Music

[ChamberNut]

Here's a thought for the Classical fan with a short attention span:  build a CD of Classical music by selecting 14 tracks of music, each track being any Classical piece between 3 to 5 minutes.  Essentially creating a Classical CD of "Singles".  What would be your choices?

Just one question, out of curiosity?  Why did you chose 14 as the number?

[Opus106]

If I may take a wild guess, I think he's trying to encode them at 192 kbps.

[hornteacher]

Just one question, out of curiosity?  Why did you chose 14 as the number?

Don't most Pop/Rock CDs have 14 tracks?  Its been so long since I've purchased one I could be wrong.

[gomro]

Here's a thought for the Classical fan with a short attention span:  build a CD of Classical music by selecting 14 tracks of music, each track being any Classical piece between 3 to 5 minutes.  Essentially creating a Classical CD of "Singles".  What would be your choices?

Here are my choices, which will probably result in a less-than-popular Pop Classic disc:

1. Prelude from SYMPHONIC DANCES - Kalevi Aho
2. Scherzo from Akio Yashiro's SYMPHONY
3. March triomphale du Diable from L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT - Igor Stravinsky
4. Montag (flute and synthesizer version) from 7 SONGS OF THE DAYS - Karlheinz Stockhausen
5. VOYAGE - Arthur Krieger
6. EAGLEHAWK - Eric Ewazen
7. PACIFIC 231 - Arthur Honegger
8. MADAME PRESS DIED LAST WEEK AT NINETY - Morton Feldman
9. GRAND BAMBOULA - Charles Wuorinen
10. Love Duet from MERRY MOUNT SUITE - Howard Hanson
11. 4th Movement of Paul Moravec's CHAMBER SYMPHONY
12. Waltz #1 from JAZZ SUITE #2 - Dmitri Shostakovich
13. To the Point from IMPRESSIONS - Jennifer Higdon
14. MACHINE IV - Marc Mellits
14.

[71 dB]

Don't most Pop/Rock CDs have 14 tracks?  Its been so long since I've purchased one I could be wrong.

I think 10-12 tracks is most common.

[Dr. Dread]

Not in a compilation though.

[jwinter]

Just one question, out of curiosity?  Why did you chose 14 as the number?

I believe 14 used to be the standard number of songs for a pop album.  For example, all of the Beatles' early British LPs (pre-Sgt. Pepper) had 14 tracks each.  I'm fairly sure that was at EMI's direction.

[karlhenning]

I believe 14 used to be the standard number of songs for a pop album.  For example, all of the Beatles' early British LPs (pre-Sgt. Pepper) had 14 tracks each.

Generally, songs were two minutes in length then, too 

[Solitary Wanderer]

Generally, songs were two minutes in length then, too 

True, songs in the 50s were constructed thus:

verse-chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-chorus

Now it's:

verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-bridge-[key change] chorus-chorus