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okay.... i know a couple which i am sure everyone knows... but i would like to know some more you know maybe for a playlist or something or other...


of course... Ravel's Bolero http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw

3rd movement (presto) of Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Summer
...oh hello all three movements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY2Ugpst9VY

these are both classical but i am sure other genres have plenty to offer....

almost anything by rachmaninov. a point not lost on eric carmen and, perhaps, billy joel.

By romantic , what do you mean? wild, passionate...?

classical: Amor brujo, by Falla

less classical: samba pa ti, by Santana

Not instrumental but I like it in the sense that it gives me some wild passion:

A whiter shade of pale

Je t'aime mon non plus

Vivaldi is baroque, and Ravel modern impressionist. So actually neither of those pieces are classical.

B

count on you, mu beta, to come into a thread of mine and naysay...


ahem... it all comes under the classical genre in my itunes...

and besides that is this... a work in progress reflecting educated opinions of humanity at large: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music

I think 'educated opinions' is a bit of flattery for the people who edit Wikipedia.

B

ha! i knew you'd bite on that one!

Wikipedia is to Hootoo as the Encyclopedia Galactica is to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... so get over it already!

research suggests that for sampled entries wiki scores higher for accuracy than britannica. if you doubt an entry check the bibilography and read the discussion pages behind it.

Like Mar who asked what you mean by 'romantic' I have to ask for a definition of 'compelling' in the subject line.

Do you mean music that compells, obliges, suggests or forces you to acts of sexual love?

In which case I always found 'Satisfaction' by the Rolling Stones played at an extremely loud volume while under the influence of alcohol to be quite a prime motivator in the old 'cherchez la femme'.


~jwf~

Romantic music? that would be Tchaikowsky wouldn't it?

(B isn't the only one who gets annoyed at things being called Classical when what people mean is orchestral, or not pop/jazz/rock/etc)

Are you talking about music to boink to? Genesis, the Carpet Crawlers.

I have to ask for a definition of 'compelling' in the subject line.

does the new subject line answer that? or is it too nonsubtle?

Now I'm confused. Surely 'rousing' and 'compelling' don't mean the same thing.

B

compelling - tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument
... ... ...the argument here. in this instance. being the music and the forcefulness being the um ohhh mood?

rousing - spurring to activity or heightened action ...capable of arousing or awakening enthusiasm or excitement

arouse - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) ...stimulate sexually ...to begin moving ...cause to be alert and energetic ...stop sleeping ...cause to become awake or conscious ...evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic


oh my

There is certainly a difference between a rabble-rouser and a rabble-compeller, isn't there?

rabble-rouser • a person who stirs up popular opinion, especially for political reasons ...an orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience

rabble • disparaging term for the common people ...a disorderly crowd of people

compeller • a person who tends to persuade by forcefulness of argument

therefore it appears a rabble-rouser and a rabble-compeller use the same means to enflame a disorderly crowd of common people... oratory argument

I vote for "arouse"

'enflame' is nice too

rabble-rousers go to jail, rabble-compellors go into politics?

Being MMF, I have to go off the wall, or rather off the woodland...

To me, the most romantic album I have ever bought is...

'Et Les Oiseaux Chantant' or 'The Birds Were Singing' - Sweet People... It reached number four in the charts on the 18th March 1980 and the album has been played to :

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UEgVnYay4RQ



Or not?

MMF

For "romantic" mood music, old style, try
Classics Up to Date. vol.2 by the James Last Orchestra
Specifically the track of Mendelshon's Violin Concerto in E

Smoochy stuff!

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