source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 10:29:21 -0800 Subject: Bulgarian music & emotional response From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) Bruce, I've looked in my own collection of Bulgarian music and there was no CD with exactly 20 tracks so I don't know if this particular CD is for sale somewhere. But I can recommend the series "Le Myste`re des voix Bulgares", on the Nonesuch label in the U.S., you can blindly buy all three volumes. There are many CD's more, Tower Records should have several. There are CD's of live performances, another one called "Le Mythe des voix Bulgares". They are not all by the same choir though and quality may vary. It's indeed wonderful music, I vividly remember the moment that I heard it for the first time on the radio, in the summer of '86. There's also a nice series of CD's with traditional music assembled by Herman Vuylsteke of the Flemish radio. Music that gives me the most emotional response is always vocal music (with the exception of the Gran Partita), like the soprano-alt duet in Cantata BWV 91, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Schubert songs or Handel's cantata Lucrezia. But I recall a talk by a music psychologist explaining that music has five different kinds of appeal. I can't remember all of them. So I think John F. needn't be confused because the case will be that the different appeals will appeal with differing strength to different people. Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:18 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00827; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:21:08 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00825 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA09650; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:20:33 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:20:33 -0800 Message-Id: <15970102191851/0005695065PK4EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu