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Offline rachmaninoff_forever

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Most played songs on your iPod?
on: July 25, 2012, 07:57:29 PM
Or lap top, iPad, computer, etc.  All genres are welcome!   ;D

My top five are:

Appassionata mov. 1 (Valentina Lisitsa) - 1991 listens
Appassionata mov. 2 (Valentina lisitsa) - 1984 listens
Ravel Scarbo (Boris Berezovsky) - 1977 listens
Tchaikovsky Romance (Plentev) -1973 listens
Rachmaninoff piano concerto 3 (Horowitz) - 1966 listens

I was pretty surprised by this.  My Bach WTC 1 in A flat major has 1876 listens, and WTC 1 in E minor has 1823 listens...  what?! how?!  That's more than All my Scriabin and most of my Rachmaninoff!  Schoenberg is up there too.  His Op. 11 No. 2 has 1931 listens, and Op. 11 No. 3 has 1915 listens...  But I don't listen to Schoenberg!!!

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Offline 49410enrique

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Re: Most played song on your iPod?
Reply #1 on: July 25, 2012, 08:04:15 PM
lately it just depends on what piano repertoire i'm working on. i tend to load recordings i like or want to aspire to of pieces i'm studying, so those get the most play, and usually the piece i'm having the most trouble with gets the most play out of those (as i like for the sound of the piece to really be internalized and i like letting my brain process the information and work on the music even when i'm not practicing or seated at the piano).

prolly a crappy answer in that it's very likely not along the lines of what you're looking for.
right now i'm working through the first piece in my new "The Artist" piano solo score book, so the overture gets the most play (the book basically has each piece set up to lead into the next, and lead into the next etc etc. so it makes the most sense for this score to work them up in the order they're printed).

it's a dramatic work and piano score stays very true to the orchestration  with only slightl compromises for musical reasons, as it is very well laid out for the hands.



 my player is not an ipod so i have no idea how many times what pieces are played. the rest of the list is in  my siggy.

Offline zezhyrule

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Re: Most played song on your iPod?
Reply #2 on: July 25, 2012, 08:08:52 PM
According to teh iTunes, Chopin Prelude in Ab is the most played.

Not only is it my favorite Chopin prelude, but I'm also currently working on it. So it's no surprise really.
Currently learning -

- Bach: P&F in F Minor (WTC 2)
- Chopin: Etude, Op. 25, No. 5
- Beethoven: Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3
- Scriabin: Two Poems, Op. 32
- Debussy: Prelude Bk II No. 3

Offline perprocrastinate

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Re: Most played songs on your iPod?
Reply #3 on: July 25, 2012, 08:33:01 PM
Probably the Chopin Etudes. And there's this one piece from Alkan that I listen to death- Le Festin d'Esope.

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Re: Most played songs on your iPod?
Reply #4 on: July 25, 2012, 08:50:05 PM
Couldn't find that information on my ipod (nano), but I was a bit shocked to see I have 1584 pieces on my ipod and it's all piano (solo, concerto, piano+cello/flute/violin). What happened to all other music I used to listen to???

Offline j_menz

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Re: Most played songs on your iPod?
Reply #5 on: July 26, 2012, 12:01:38 AM
 My Bach WTC 1 in A flat major has 1876 listens, and WTC 1 in E minor has 1823 listens...  what?! how?!  That's more than All my Scriabin and most of my Rachmaninoff!  Schoenberg is up there too.  His Op. 11 No. 2 has 1931 listens, and Op. 11 No. 3 has 1915 listens...  But I don't listen to Schoenberg!!!

Obviously someone is borrowing your iPod when you aren't using it.  :P

I only use playlists on mine, so everything is pretty much fairly even.  If I want to listen to something repeatedly, I generally dig out the CD.
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