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From: cdh@ptsfc.UUCP (Chris Harvey)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Statistics for Inspirational Music Poll (the winner is...)
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 22:57:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 22:57:17 1985
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Believe it or not, not one selection was chosen more than twice. There were
11 pieces chosen twice, the others all appeared only once. Soooooo, I decided
to tally by composer instead. Each time a composer's piece was mentioned, I
gave him a tally. I included duplicates, as well.

21 composers were mentioned only once. They are:

	Scriabin, Crumb, Bartok, Glass, Riley, Vivaldi, Debussy, Clarke,
	Rodrigo, Dufay, Granados, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, Stravinsky,
	Ysaye, Dvorak, Pachelbel, Rimsy-Korsakov, Sibelius, Berlioz, and
	Rachmaninoff

6 composers were mentioned twice. They are:

	Barber, Faure', Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Elgar

3 were mentioned three times. Thay are:

	Handel, Schubert, and Williams

Now it gets a little more selective. Sitting alone as the only composer
chosen 4 times by the net is:

	Shostakovitch

This leaves us with the Net's Big Four. They were chosen 8, 9, 11, and
THIRTEEN times, respectively. Obviously the pick of the net.

Chosen 8 times:

	Gustav Mahler

Squeezing by Mahler by one vote, the winner of this year's Oscar:

	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (WAM to his friends)

Two ahead of WAM, and only 2 from the top:

	J. S. Bach

The big winner, the most popular inspirational composer on the net, with a
grand total of 13 different mentions:

	Ludwig von Beethoven

Suprised? I was, a little. There were quite a few not mentioned. But overall,
I feel that the poll served its purpose. I now have a new list to take with
me the the record store!

Thanks again.
-- 
Chris Harvey,Pac Bell,SF
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