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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Introduction to classical music (chronological order)
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Date: Tue, 1-May-84 23:44:11 EDT
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Funny, but I find that my appreciation of both jazz and classical music
has tended to grow in  r e v e r s e  chronological order.

A basic understanding of mainstream pop music gave me the background to
begin listening to jazz-rock/fusion stuff while I was in high school;
that interest led me slowly into the "real" jazz roots from which
jazz-rock sprang.  Eventually began to enjoy some of the 20th-century
classical composers (Stravinsky, Bartok, Gershwin, to name a few) who
have influenced or been influenced by jazz.  Once I'd gotten my foot in
the door that way, I found myself listening to classical music from all
periods on the radio.  Now I find that my interests in both jazz and
classical music continue to grow and mature in parallel.  (And I still
like good pop music, too.)

I don't think I'm alone in this way of learning to like music.  I've
known several other people who have gone through a similar process.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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