Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request
From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Subject: Re: music to study by
Message-ID: <gsuwq2w163w@kk4fs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 90 04:10:39 GMT
References: <13105@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Sender: Love-Hounds-request@gaffa.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU
Organization: KK4FS - Free Speech Forum, +1 615 283 0864 for BBS
Lines: 21
Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu

Really-From: kk4fs!s_fungus@crdgw1.ge.com (Slender Fungus)

Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes:

> Really-From: mbharrin%sdcc13@ucsd.edu (Matthew Harrington)
> 
> 
> Say, what are some sounds to study by?  Sometimes
> I play some Tangerine Dream, and other times
> I play some Bach.  Anything with vocals probably won't
> do because they are too distracting.  And, it
> can't be too dramatic, like Beethoven's No. 9, etc.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> -Matt H.
Well, you could try some non-vocal Mike Oldfield stuff e.g. "Tubular bells" 
Philip Glass' stuff is pretty good, also...
As for classical, there's Tschaikovsky, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Haydn...
They're not overly dramatic...