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I can assure you that you know every single piece of music featured at KickAssClassical.com, but you'd probably strain a muscle trying to figure out when and where you've heard them. Hopefully it won't come to that, because Mike Nelson no, not of mst3k fame has compiled 100 of the most popular pieces in the "serious music," aka classical music repertoire, pieces made famous by their use (or perhaps ...

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Quite the musical week here at tunequest. A little more than usual. First the Ratatat show, now a symphony performance. The Atlanta Symphony put in a wonderful performance of Holst's Planets. From the raw power of Mars to the ethereal ambiance of Nepture, the orchestra dispatched all seven symphonic poems with passion and exuberance. "Wow", I say "Wow." Parts of Mercury felt a little bit off, but it could have just ...

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When it comes to organizing for iTunes and iPod, classical music is an entirely different beast. Why tie yourself to an inefficient and illogical "album" model when classical works were never meant to be treated that way? iTunes allows you to appreciate individual works as they were conceived and executed: as individual, stand-alone works. :: Example of my tagging structure (click to see full size). I recently ran across Musicbrainz's classical music ...

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